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

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Eric Steinberg <eric.steinberg(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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