On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:00 -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 4/6/06, Daniel Rozsnyó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But it's sure would be nice to use a card who > > > have realtime dolby digital encoding, an optical connector output and > > > work on any platform. > > > > > > > How complicated is to make an AC3 encoder in HW (fpga) and what will be > > the latency? I think that is one of the things what are missing from > > today's soundards. > > I don't know the answer to that question, but one of the things I had > in mind was the ability for the card to hardware decode a number of > different formats, including the compressed ones. We may not be able > to do MP3 _encoding_ due to patents, but most Linux users would be > storing on Ogg format anyway. Those who wanted MP3 could store > uncompressed and convert later in software. But I think we can do MP3 > _decoding_ with no problem (although it may not be worth the effort). > > Nico's post suggests that Dolby must own a patent on it. I am > ambivalent about that, although I suspect that AC3 is not one of those > abusive software patents. Given that we're selling hardware, we CAN > afford to pay reasonable royalties. The algorithms can be developed > in the open, and then the companies get their royalties from the sale > of the hardware.
Are we talking about a professional audio card, or about a gamer-card: in the first case AC3, MP3, OGG, or everything else that is lossy is totaly unusefull... maybe Flac could have sense ! in the second case an OpenAL implementation could be more appropriate ! (IMHO) > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Occam's Razor MiChele Carla` aKa Goldfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
