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Bring in flac, ogg, vorbis
author Chris Cannam
date Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:37:49 +0000
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Chris@1 4 <title>Vorbisfile - Callbacks and non-stdio I/O</title>
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Chris@1 11 <td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td>
Chris@1 12 <td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.3.2 - 20101101</p></td>
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Chris@1 16 <h1>Callbacks and non-stdio I/O</h1>
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Chris@1 18 Although stdio is convenient and nearly universally implemented as per
Chris@1 19 ANSI C, it is not suited to all or even most potential uses of Vorbis.
Chris@1 20 For additional flexibility, embedded applications may provide their
Chris@1 21 own I/O functions for use with Vorbisfile when stdio is unavailable or not
Chris@1 22 suitable. One common example is decoding a Vorbis stream from a
Chris@1 23 memory buffer.<p>
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Chris@1 25 Use custom I/O functions by populating an <a
Chris@1 26 href="ov_callbacks.html">ov_callbacks</a> structure and calling <a
Chris@1 27 href="ov_open_callbacks.html">ov_open_callbacks()</a> or <a
Chris@1 28 href="ov_test_callbacks.html">ov_test_callbacks()</a> rather than the
Chris@1 29 typical <a href="ov_open.html">ov_open()</a> or <a
Chris@1 30 href="ov_test.html">ov_test()</a>. Past the open call, use of
Chris@1 31 libvorbisfile is identical to using it with stdio.
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Chris@1 33 <h2>Read function</h2>
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Chris@1 35 The read-like function provided in the <tt>read_func</tt> field is
Chris@1 36 used to fetch the requested amount of data. It expects the fetch
Chris@1 37 operation to function similar to file-access, that is, a multiple read
Chris@1 38 operations will retrieve contiguous sequential pieces of data,
Chris@1 39 advancing a position cursor after each read.<p>
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Chris@1 41 The following behaviors are also expected:<p>
Chris@1 42 <ul>
Chris@1 43 <li>a return of '0' indicates end-of-data (if the by-thread errno is unset)
Chris@1 44 <li>short reads mean nothing special (short reads are not treated as error conditions)
Chris@1 45 <li>a return of zero with the by-thread errno set to nonzero indicates a read error
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Chris@1 49 <h2>Seek function</h2>
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Chris@1 51 The seek-like function provided in the <tt>seek_func</tt> field is
Chris@1 52 used to request non-sequential data access by libvorbisfile, moving
Chris@1 53 the access cursor to the requested position. The seek function is
Chris@1 54 optional; if callbacks are only to handle non-seeking (streaming) data
Chris@1 55 or the application wishes to force streaming behavior,
Chris@1 56 <tt>seek_func</tt> and <tt>tell_func</tt> should be set to NULL. If
Chris@1 57 the seek function is non-NULL, libvorbisfile mandates the following
Chris@1 58 behavior:
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Chris@1 60 <ul>
Chris@1 61 <li>The seek function must always return -1 (failure) if the given
Chris@1 62 data abstraction is not seekable. It may choose to always return -1
Chris@1 63 if the application desires libvorbisfile to treat the Vorbis data
Chris@1 64 strictly as a stream (which makes for a less expensive open
Chris@1 65 operation).<p>
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Chris@1 67 <li>If the seek function initially indicates seekability, it must
Chris@1 68 always succeed upon being given a valid seek request.<p>
Chris@1 69
Chris@1 70 <li>The seek function must implement all of SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR and
Chris@1 71 SEEK_END. The implementation of SEEK_END should set the access cursor
Chris@1 72 one past the last byte of accessible data, as would stdio
Chris@1 73 <tt>fseek()</tt><p>
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Chris@1 75
Chris@1 76 <h2>Close function</h2>
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Chris@1 78 The close function should deallocate any access state used by the
Chris@1 79 passed in instance of the data access abstraction and invalidate the
Chris@1 80 instance handle. The close function is assumed to succeed; its return
Chris@1 81 code is not checked.<p>
Chris@1 82
Chris@1 83 The <tt>close_func</tt> may be set to NULL to indicate that libvorbis
Chris@1 84 should not attempt to close the file/data handle in <a
Chris@1 85 href="ov_clear.html">ov_clear</a> but allow the application to handle
Chris@1 86 file/data access cleanup itself. For example, by passing the normal
Chris@1 87 stdio calls as callback functions, but passing a <tt>close_func</tt>
Chris@1 88 that is NULL or does nothing (as in the case of OV_CALLBACKS_NOCLOSE), an
Chris@1 89 application may call <a href="ov_clear.html">ov_clear()</a> and then
Chris@1 90 later <tt>fclose()</tt> the file originally passed to libvorbisfile.
Chris@1 91
Chris@1 92 <h2>Tell function</h2>
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Chris@1 94 The tell function is intended to mimic the
Chris@1 95 behavior of <tt>ftell()</tt> and must return the byte position of the
Chris@1 96 next data byte that would be read. If the data access cursor is at
Chris@1 97 the end of the 'file' (pointing to one past the last byte of data, as
Chris@1 98 it would be after calling <tt>fseek(file,SEEK_END,0)</tt>), the tell
Chris@1 99 function must return the data position (and thus the total file size),
Chris@1 100 not an error.<p>
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Chris@1 102 The tell function need not be provided if the data IO abstraction is
Chris@1 103 not seekable, or the application wishes to force streaming
Chris@1 104 behavior. In this case, the <tt>tell_func</tt> and <tt>seek_func</tt>
Chris@1 105 fields should be set to NULL.<p>
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Chris@1 111 <td><p class=tiny>copyright &copy; 2000-2010 Xiph.Org</p></td>
Chris@1 112 <td align=right><p class=tiny><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></p></td>
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Chris@1 114 <td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td>
Chris@1 115 <td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.3.2 - 20101101</p></td>
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