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

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@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Eric Steinberg
> <eric.steinberg@email-addr-hidden> 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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