[linux-audio-dev] ac3jack - realtime AC3 stream encoder for JACK

[Ivica Bukvic]

OMG this is awesome!

Thank you very much for making this!

Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor
http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-dev-bounces at music.columbia.edu
[mailto:linux-audio-dev-
> bounces at music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Jesse Chappell
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:50 AM
> To: linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu; linux-audio-
> announce at music.columbia.edu
> Cc: jackit-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [linux-audio-dev] ac3jack - realtime AC3 stream encoder for
JACK
> 
> Introducing the initial release of ac3jack,  bringing you realtime
> AC3 stream encoding of any JACK audio.
> 
>  http://essej.net/ac3jack/
> 
> ac3jack is a tool for creating an AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel
> stream from its JACK input ports.  Using this tool, an AC3 stream (up
> to 5.1 channels) is encoded in realtime and either written to a file
or
> streamed to standard output.
> 
> When streamed to stdout and piped through the ALSA tool 'ac3dec -C',
> the AC3 stream can be passed out the SPDIF port on your audio
interface
> for connection to a multichannel surround receiver.  In this way,
> you can achieve full 5.1 surround mixing and monitoring of your JACK
> applications with a single digital cable, and no need for hardware
> supporting discrete inputs and outputs.
> 
> AC3 is a compressed audio stream, so quality is somewhat compromised.
> It is the price you pay for easy surround sound.  After all, if it is
> good enough for DVD and film soundtracks, it must be OK.
> 
> Please try it out, read the usage notes, and let me know of any
> build or runtime problems you find.....
> 
> jlc