Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA AC3 encoder?

From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 13:14:58 EET

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 01:05:12 -0500, Lee Revell 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.

You can't do it as a LADSPA plugin as the output format is binary, and
theres a reencoding stage. It could be done as an ALSA lib plugin though I
suspect.

- Steve
Received on Sun Jan 29 16:15:05 2006

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