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
