[mythtv-users] A52 encoding with ALSA
Paul Bender
pebender at san.rr.com
Thu Feb 14 06:11:39 UTC 2008
Justin wrote:
> >You mean libasound_module_pcm_a52.so? It sounds like a distro
> >problem- my ALSA is compiled from pristine source and it is there. YMMV.
>
> >Charles
>
> Yes this is exactly what i'm referring to. Right now i'm using Fedora
> 8. I have alsa installed from rpms. I'm considering installing it from
> source however the a52 plugin doesn't seem to compile for me. Do you
> know if there are any prereqs for this?
AFAIK, Fedora does not include the a52 plugin in its ALSA plugins. I
suspect that the reason for excluding a52 is the same reason they do not
include many A/V codecs.
As for prerequisites, I believe that it requires ffmpeg.
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