[Bug 197957] Re: Include a libasound2-plugins-extra package for a52, maemo

[Kip Warner]

Mike,
The patch for XBMC uses libaften. libaften is just a derivative of the original a52 ALSA plugin that ALSA's source distribution already ships with, but with the audio renderer backend agnostic (no ALSA output). So I don't think it makes sense to say that the ALSA project "skipped over it" since it already has A52 output. What I still don't understand is what a52plug is.

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Title:
  Include a libasound2-plugins-extra package for a52, maemo

Status in “alsa-plugins” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “alsa-plugins” source package in Lucid:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  As the a52 and maemo plugins are not included in ubuntu's
  libasound2-plugins package, it would be nice to have a libasound2
  -plugins-extra package available which included these.

  Personally I'm using the a52 plugin a lot. It would be great to have
  this packaged.

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