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- ABOUT LIBA52
- liba52 is a free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams. It is
- released under the terms of the GPL license. The A/52 standard is used
- in a variety of applications, including digital television and DVD. It
- is also known as AC-3.
- The main goals in liba52 development are:
- * Portability - Currently all of the code is written in C, and
- when we write platform-specific optimizations we will always
- keep a generic C routine to fall back on.
- * Reuseability - we do not want liba52 to include any
- project-specific code, but it should still include enough
- features to be used by very diverse projects.
- * Precision - We are trying to implement all of the A/52
- standard, and to have a very precise output by doing all the
- calculations in floating point. We have a test suite that
- detects any deviation in the output when compared to previous
- versions. We do not have access to official A/52 test vectors
- though, so we have to use our judgement to ensure that such
- deviations are only intruduced when we fix bugs !
- * Speed - liba52 is really fast, on any modern PC it should take
- only a few percent of CPU time.
- The project homepage is at http://liba52.sourceforge.net/
- A52DEC
- a52dec is a test program for liba52. It decodes ATSC A/52 streams, and
- also includes a demultiplexer for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 program streams.
- The liba52 source code is always distributed in the a52dec package, to
- make sure it easier for people to test it.
- The basic usage is to just type "a52dec file" where file is an ATSC
- A/52 file.
- The "-s" option must be used for multiplexed (audio and video) mpeg-2
- files. These files are usualy found on the internet or on unencrypted
- DVDs.
- The "-o" option is used to select a given output layer. By default
- a52dec does a stereo downmix and outputs to your speakers, but you can
- try other choices using this option. This is also used for performance
- testing and conformance testing.
- The "-c" option is used to disable all optimizations (currently only djbfft).
- The "-r" option is used to disable the dynamic range compression.
- OTHER PROJECTS USING LIBA52
- liba52 (and its ancestor libac3) is being used by various other
- projects, including:
- * xine (http://xine.sourceforge.net/) - started as a simple
- mpeg-2 audio and video decoder, but it since became a
- full-featured DVD and video media player.
- * MPlayer (http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu) - another good player, it is
- also very robust against damaged streams.
- * movietime (http://movietime.sourceforge.net/) - still quite
- young, but it looks very promising !
- * ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) - a nice audio/video
- encoder and transcoder, uses liba52 for decoding A/52 streams.
- * Ogle (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/) - a good DVD
- player with menu support
- * a52decX (http://homepage1.nifty.com/~toku/software_en.html) -
- a graphical interface for a52dec in macintosh osX.
- * bd4go (http://denisx.dyndns.org/bd4go/) - another graphical
- interface for macintosh osX.
- * OMS (http://www.linuxvideo.org/oms/)
- * XMPS (http://xmps.sourceforge.net/)
- * GStreamer (http://www.gstreamer.net/) - a framework for
- streaming media; it has an A/52 decoding plugin based on liba52.
- * mpeglib (http://mpeglib.sourceforge.net/) - a video decoding
- library that usess liba52 when decoding A/52 streams.
- If you use liba52 in another project, let us know !
- VideoLAN (http://www.videolan.org/) does not use liba52, but this is
- still a cool project :)
- TASKS
- There are several places where we could easily use some help:
- * Web design: This site sucks ! at the very least, we'd like to
- come up with a nicer background picture and a logo.
- * Testing: If you find any stream that does not decode right
- with liba52, let us know ! The best thing would be to mail to
- the liba52-devel mailing list. Also if you have access to
- encoders, we'd love to get test streams that would be free of
- rights - so that we can put them on this server.
- * Coding: you can have a look in the TODO file first ! The most
- important item is probably to make the code fully reentrant.
- * Porting: If you're porting to a new architecture, you might
- want to experiment with the compile flags defined in
- configure.in . When you figure out whats fastest on your
- platform, send us a patch !
- REFERENCES
- The A/52 standard, as published by the ATSC, is available at
- http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_52a.pdf
- CVS SNAPSHOTS
- A daily snapshot is created using "make distcheck" every night and
- uploaded to http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-snapshot.tar.gz .
- It is easier to use than the CVS repository, because you do not need
- to have the right versions of automake, autoconf and libtool
- installed. It might be convenient when working on a liba52 port for
- example.
- CVS REPOSITORY
- The latest liba52 and a52dec source code can always be found by
- anonymous CVS:
- # export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.liba52.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/liba52
- # cvs login (Just press Return when prompted for a password)
- # cvs checkout a52dec
- You can also browse the latest changes online at
- http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/liba52/a52dec/
- The other CVS modules are ac3dec-livid for the CVS history of the
- project while it was still hosted on the linuxvideo.org servers, and
- ac3dec for the CVS history of the project while the linuxvideo.org
- servers were down and before the library switched its name to liba52.
- MAILING LISTS
- See the subscription information at http://liba52.sourceforge.net/lists.html
- liba52-devel
- This is the main mailing list for technical discussion about
- liba52. Anyone wanting to work on liba52, or maybe just stay informed
- about the development process, should probably subscribe to this list.
- liba52-checkins
- All liba52 checkins are announced there. This is a good way to keep
- track of what goes into CVS.
- liba52-announce
- This is a very low traffic mailing list, only for announcements of new
- versions of liba52. Only project administrators can post there.