[LAU] looking for alternatives to ac3jack, because it just won't build

[Eric Steinberg]

DUUUUUUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WORKS BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
This is running with no xruns on an HP D330ST with 1.5 g RAM, Hardy Heron,
linux-rt package, Edirol UA-1D usb audio, one toslink cable into a Sony
STR-DE445 receiver.  The front of the receiver indicates 5.1, I can mute
each channel by breaking the connection in Qjackctl's connection panel or in
ac3jack's gui.  Or by checking and unchecking the LFE box.  I have Hydrogen
playing directly into the ac3jack device....Ardour is a little problematic:
I just tried to play a mono file through a six channel bus routed to each
ac3jack input, and it's crashed a couple of times.  I'm gonna try FFADO and
an Echo Audiofire 12 next week, and will report then.  Mare Sea Bow Koo.


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Eric Steinberg
> <eric.steinberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm unable to build ac3jack on my Hardy system; stuck in dependency hell.
> > Is there another way to output an AC3 stream so that I can mix audio for
> > DVD?  Or is there a .deb somewhere for ac3jack?
>
> I have reimplemented ac3jack completely, but have not yet released it
> officially or updated the web site.  I need a kick in the pants to do
> it.  Anyway, here's all you need:
>
> The new version has a GUI (ac3jack) as well as a cmdline version
> (ac3jack_cli), plus OSC control, but best of all integrates the
> realtime ALSA output to SPDIF.
>
> The downside is that it has a few more dependencies.  It no longer
> uses ffmpeg, instead using the newer and more actively developed
> Aften.   I've made an SVN snapshot of Aften that you'll need to use
> instead of their release version.
>
> AC3Jack 2 source:
>  http://essej.net/ac3jack/ac3jack-2.0.0alpha3.tar.gz
>
> Aften source:
>  http://essej.net/ac3jack/aften-20071020.tar.gz
>  You need 'cmake' to build aften.  Once you have that, the quick build
> instructions are:
>  $ cd aften-20071020
>  $ mkdir build
>  $ cd build
>  $ cmake ..
>  $ make
>  [become root]
>  # make install
>  # cp libaften_static.a /usr/local/lib/
>
>
> The other dependencies you'll need are boost, wxWidgets,
> libsigc++-1.2, and liblo (all of which are described in the README)
> and most of which should be available from your distribution's
> repositories.
>
> Building ac3jack is a straightforward ./configure; make; make install, as
> usual.
>
> If you are trying out realtime spdif output, I'd especially like your
> feedback
> on how your sound card's SPDIF is presented in the GUI, because I have
> not been able to test it with many different setups.
>
> Thanks in advance, please let me know if you have any problems.  The
> documentation is still a work in progress (and only exists in the
> README for the time being, the website is still the old one).
>
> jlc
>
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