[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA AC3 encoder?

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 23:14 -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> On 1/29/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > Question for the DSP gurus:
> >
> > How hard would it be to implement an AC3 encoder as a LADSPA plugin that
> > could be used in an ALSA config to encode stereo and 5.1 sources on the
> > fly?  Many Windows drivers seem to contain one, and it would be a nice
> > response to the naysayers on LKML who doubt the power of ALSA.
> 
> Have you seen my ac3jack?  It needs some work, but can act as a bridge
> between jack and alsa (indirectly now, directly soon) and uses the ac3
> encoder from ffmpeg.
>   http://essej.net/ac3jack
> 
> If pushed, I will fix it up as planned....

Yes, I did.  I was thinking it would be nice to be able to offer this as
an alsa-lib plugin.

Lee