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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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. -- FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
