anyone compiled and tried dcaenc ?

[Selur]

Just stumbled over http://aepatrakov.narod.ru/dcaenc/ and was wondering if someone compiled and tried it.

So if anyone has some experience to share please do so.

Cu Selur

[Kurtnoise]

same experimental encoder uses in ffmpeg/avconv tools...

No this is a new one as the blog post here points out.

The DTS "encoder" in FFmpeg was ported by someone else from my old proof-of-concept code that served as a tool to understand the DTS subband transform. It could only encode stereo PCM files into a valid DTS bitstream of the same bitrate, which is useless for any practical purpose. Now dcaenc provides a useful encoder that accepts multichannel sound and encodes it to the bitrate specified by the command line parameter.

[Midzuki]

OK, since "nobody" cares...

Downloaded the dämn source code, configured, compiled dcaenc.exe and gentables.exe, and...

- CONs:

does not have a progress indicator ;

it's slooow

-PROs

it works ( or at least I think so )

Tested sample = an ordinary CDDA track (stereo, 16-bits, 44.1kHz)

Resulting output (@576kbps) = plays fine with Mplayer

What about playback using something other than mplayer? Do you have the Arcsoft decoder you could test a sample with? I'd try but I'm not at home right now.

[Kurtnoise]

Originally Posted by amtm

No this is a new one as the blog post here points out.

your quote is outdated...it produces multichannel (only 5.0 & 5.1) as well.

Great but still doesn't change that this is a new encoder which is not part of ffmpeg as the author points out.

The key words:

The DTS "encoder" in FFmpeg was ported by someone else from my old proof-of-concept code

So even if the encoder in ffmpeg/avconv now has 5.1 or 5.0 support doesn't change the fact that this NEW encoder is not the same one you mentioned as he explicitly points out.

[Kurtnoise]

just compare by yourself instead of writing...

Originally Posted by Kurtnoise

just compare by yourself instead of writing...

I did compare the source which is how I know they aren't the same thing. The current encoder as linked in the blog post is dtsenc which even with a cursory glance is obvious it's not the same encoder as in ffmpeg. It's been significantly modified since ffmpeg integrated and changed his original code from 2008.

[Midzuki]

Originally Posted by amtm

What about playback using something other than mplayer? Do you have the Arcsoft decoder you could test a sample with? I'd try but I'm not at home right now.

Currently my home PC still is a mess which means the DirectShow environment (read: codecs and splitters) has not been optimized yet ( because I'm too lazy, yes ). I haven't even re-installed foobar2000 yet

Still, with or without Mplayer the program dcaenc.exe needs to be tested "exhaustively" This will include samples @32kHz, 5.1@44.1kHz@REAL1411kbps (i.e., without SPDIF-padding), Back-Center channel properly-flagged, etc, whatever

That's okay just curious. I still need to give it a good testing. I've only had time to glance around the source so far. If only for 2.0 and 5.1, since I don't believe it yet can do more than 6 channels, it sounds like it could be great for fixing the broken silence frames issue in delaycut.

[Midzuki]

Originally Posted by amtm

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it could be great for fixing the broken silence frames issue in delaycut.

That's a good point. AVI-Mux GUI might use it as well
( however nobody but Alex Noe himself would want to rewrite and recompile the source-code, apparently )

Anyway, more good news: foobar2000 likes dcaenc

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@Midzuki:

What build environment did you use to make the Win32 build? MSYS+MinGW?

If so, could you give me some advice on how to properly setup 'autoreconf' under that environment?

It fails for me with:

MuldeR@MULDER-PC /d/SVN/Tools/dtsenc
$ autoreconf -f -i -v
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
/bin/m4: unrecognized option `--gnu'
Try `/bin/m4 --help' for more information.
autom4te-2.68: failed to run /bin/m4: Bad file number
aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.68 failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: Bad file number

MuldeR@MULDER-PC /d/SVN/Tools/dtsenc
$

(BTW: My plan is to hack in a progress-indicator and Win32 Unicode support)

Originally Posted by Midzuki

That's a good point. AVI-Mux GUI might use it as well
( however nobody but Alex Noe himself would want to rewrite and recompile the source-code, apparently )

Is it really that bad? Maybe I'll give it a look over one of these days amongst all the other projects I have going on.

[Midzuki]

Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR

@Midzuki:

What build environment did you use to make the Win32 build? MSYS+MinGW?

Yesss

gcc.exe (XvidVideo.RU - GCC 4.5.2 i686-pc-mingw32) 4.5.2

Also, and IIRC ,

"./configure --disable-alsa"

(BTW: My plan is to hack in a progress-indicator and Win32 Unicode support)

YAY!

[Midzuki]

Originally Posted by amtm

Is it really that bad?

Well, I still haven't seen any "AVI-Mux GUI Mod" builds

Maybe I'll give it a look over one of these days amongst all the other projects I have going on.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Well, my problem is, that I don't have a 'configure' script yet. It needs to be generated with autoconf.

Can you tell me what version of autoconf (and from where) you used? I installed autoconf + perl + libcrypt, but get the error from above

[Midzuki]

Humm, that's weird
IIRC (again), I just downloaded the full package from Xhmikosr's site some months ago, and (probably) just discarded the 64-bit stuff.

Anyway:

$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.67
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>

Hope this helps

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Okay, the good news is: I got autoconf working by re-installing MSYS with the official MSYS installer.

The bad news is that the configure script it produces is broken. At one point it uses some PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG variable that nowhere has been define before

Had to hack configure.ac as well as Makefile.am to finally convince that ... to give me a Makefile. But now I am set up, I think, finally!