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Bug#225585: ITP: ac3jack -- realtime AC3 stream encoder for JACK



Hello!

[CC-ing Jesse Chappell because the text is essentially his.]

[Tue, 30 Dec 2003] Alexander Winston wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:35, Robert Jordens wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> >   Package name    : ac3jack
> >   Version         : 0.1.0-1
> >   Upstream Author : Jesse Chappell <jesse@essej.net>
> >   URL             : http://essej.net/ac3jack/
> >   License         : GPL
> >   Description     : realtime AC3 stream encoder for JACK
> > 
> >  ac3jack is a tool for creating an AC3 (Dolby Digital) multichannel
> >  stream from its JACK input ports. Using this tool, an AC3 stream (up
> >  to 5.1 channels) is created in realtime and either written to a file or
> >  streamed to standard output.
> >  .
> >  When streamed to stdout and piped through the ALSA tool "ac3dec -C",
> >  the AC3 stream can be passed out the SPDIF port on your audio interface
> >  for connection to a multichannel surround receiver. In this way, 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.
> >  .
> >  AC3 is a compressed audio stream, so quality will suffer somewhat, but
> >  it is the price you pay for easy surround sound.
> >  .
> >  JACK is a low-latency sound server. JACK allows the connection of multiple
> >  applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio
> >  between themselves. ac3jack also supports the features of the JACK
> >  transport extension.
> >  .
> >  Further information can be found at
> >  http://essej.net/ac3jack/.
> 
> Here are my suggestions:
> 
> 	* Change "AC3" to "AC-3," which is the way that Dolby Laboratories Inc.
> punctuates its technology.

Yes. Thanks. But people might expect "ac-3jack" or something similar then.

> 	* Change the first instance of "realtime" to "real-time," and change
> the second instance to "real time."

Out of my immediate judgement. English is not my native language. 
Will do.

> 	* Enclose the URI at the bottom in <> angle brackets as discussed in
> RFC 2396, Appendix E.

Yes. You might want to suggest that in debian-policy@lists.debian.org as
general practice. For long descriptions.

Thanks for the careful reading!

        Robert.

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