Subject: Re: ac3dec source (easy to compile on NetBSD)
To: Dave Sainty <dave@dtsp.co.nz>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/05/2000 23:25:40
Any chance of a pkgsrc entry for this - anyone interested? :)
David/absolute
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Dave Sainty wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer writes:
>
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brad Spencer wrote:
> > > I was able to mount an older Jackie Chan movie DVD as a ISO-9660 disc and
> > > using the freely available AC3 audio decoder I was able to listen to the
> > > English audio "track" from the movie.
> >
> > Can you send me some pointer for this audio decoder? I've only played
> > with what's available from the livid people, and didn't have too much
> > success there...
>
> http://ess.engr.uvic.ca/~aholtzma/ac3/
>
> This is the home page for the ac3dec program. This is also available
> in the LiVid source, but this version is slightly newer. It compiles
> and links cleanly if you change everywhere it says OpenBSD to NetBSD
> :)
>
> Unfortunately it still breaks regularly when decoding audio from The
> Matrix :(
>