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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:46:21 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: snd_hda multichannel support added
Message-ID:  <hj5n9d$2dgd$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <4B4D8747.2000601@FreeBSD.org> <hj07nb$1mj$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001171904140.1524@ibyngvyr> <4B54147D.6070806@ladisch.de>

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Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> wrote:

> > > On a vaguely related note: Is there anything anywhere in the open
> > > source world that real-time encodes multi-channel audio into AC3
> > > or DTS so that it can be squeezed through an S/PDIF link?
> > 
> > ffmpeg?
> 
> I don't think the tool can be made to work in real time.
> 
> ALSA's a52 plugin uses ffmpeg's libavcodec to convert 6-channel PCM to
> AC-3.

It turns out that new versions of mplayer can do that, too.
The magic to use is "-af lavcac3enc".

I assume this will be available once the mplayer port has been
updated...

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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