[needs-packaging] ac3JACK - audio streamer to SPDIF output using AC3 on JACK audio

[Tree MendUs]

URL:
http://essej.net/ac3jack/

Description:
 AC3Jack is a tool for creating an AC-3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel stream from its JACK input ports. Using this tool, an AC-3 stream (up to 5.1 channels) is created in real time and either written to a file or streamed to a SPDIF output.

If the SPDIF port on your audio interface for connection to a multichannel surround receiver, you can achieve full 5.1 surround mixing and monitoring of your JACK applications with a single digital cable, and no need for hardware supporting discrete outputs and inputs.

AC-3 is a compressed audio stream, so quality will suffer somewhat, but it is the price you pay for easy surround sound. The AC-3 encoder used here comes from the Aften project and although the sound quality seems good, I haven't seen any direct quality comparisons with commercial encoders.

Now has a GUI for the main functions.

License:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Eric Hedekar (stochastic)]

This bug depends on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/193393 (getting aften packaged)

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Aften is now part of Karmic repository

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Seems to be a dead project.