[needs-packaging] ac3JACK - audio streamer to SPDIF output using AC3 on JACK audio
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Studio |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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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:
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in ubuntustudio: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
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