[vdr] Re: DVB over emu10k1 !?

[Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2003 23:16 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> Am Son, 2003-05-11 um 23.43 schrieb Onno:
> > Armin Janssen schrieb:
> >
> >
> > trouble comes from putting it together, since atleast the cm87xx
> > cards don't provide any kind of direct, legal way to decode
> > ac3, since neither the chip vendor nor the sound card vendor
> > pay anything to Dolby; Creative provides this software/firmware
> > at least under windos, and under linux they provide active-prologic,
> > so assuming this it _could_ be not totally illegal, depending on your
> > local law, to "fix" this missing (but promoted) feature, if you can
> > do without "special" effort (that's basically what applies to germany).
>
> The emu10k1 on SB Live! xxx is a programmable DSP.
>
> The emu10k1-project provides a sourcecode originally published by
> Creative under GPL which has been further developed by the
> emu10k1-project.
>
> They even provide a compiler for the emu10k1. So you can write your on
> sound modules and load them into the emu10k1 legally.
>

Do you want to port a52dec to Assembler ? ;-)

I think the cleanest way would be to integrate liba52/a52dec into a plugin 
like bitstreamout. The emu10k1 OSS driver easily allows direct output to 6 
channels.
I would try something like this if I had my emu10k1 plugged into my VDR box.

Marcel



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