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Chris@0 55 <H1><B>Miscellaneous API Documentation</B></H1>
Chris@0 56 <A NAME="ErrorReporting"></A>
Chris@0 57 <H3><BR>Error Reporting</H3>
Chris@0 58 <P>
Chris@0 59 Most of the API functions either return an integer error (ie <B>src_simple</B>
Chris@0 60 and <B>src_process</B>) or return an integer error value via an int pointer
Chris@0 61 parameter (<B>src_new</B>).
Chris@0 62 These integer error values can be converted into a human readable text strings by
Chris@0 63 calling the function:
Chris@0 64 </P>
Chris@0 65 <PRE>
Chris@0 66 const char* src_strerror (int error) ;
Chris@0 67 </PRE>
Chris@0 68 <P>
Chris@0 69 which will return an error string for valid error numbers, the string "No Error"
Chris@0 70 for an error value of zero or a NULL pointer if no error message has been defined
Chris@0 71 for that error value.
Chris@0 72 </P>
Chris@0 73
Chris@0 74 <A NAME="Converters"></A>
Chris@0 75 <H3><BR>Converters</H3>
Chris@0 76 <P>
Chris@0 77 Secret Rabbit Code has a number of different converters which can be selected
Chris@0 78 using the <B>converter_type</B> parameter when calling <B>src_simple</B> or
Chris@0 79 <b>src_new</B>.
Chris@0 80 Currently, the five converters available are:
Chris@0 81 </P>
Chris@0 82 <PRE>
Chris@0 83 enum
Chris@0 84 {
Chris@0 85 SRC_SINC_BEST_QUALITY = 0,
Chris@0 86 SRC_SINC_MEDIUM_QUALITY = 1,
Chris@0 87 SRC_SINC_FASTEST = 2,
Chris@0 88 SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD = 3,
Chris@0 89 SRC_LINEAR = 4
Chris@0 90 } ;
Chris@0 91 </PRE>
Chris@0 92 <P>
Chris@0 93 As new converters are added, they will given a number corresponding to the
Chris@0 94 next inetger.
Chris@0 95 </P>
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Chris@0 97 <P>
Chris@0 98 The details of these converters are as follows:
Chris@0 99 </P>
Chris@0 100 <UL>
Chris@0 101 <LI> <B>SRC_SINC_BEST_QUALITY</B> - This is a bandlimited interpolator derived
Chris@0 102 from the mathematical <B>sinc</B> function and this is the highest
Chris@0 103 quality sinc based converter, providing a worst case Signal-to-Noise
Chris@0 104 Ratio (SNR) of 97 decibels (dB) at a bandwidth of 97&#37;.
Chris@0 105 All three SRC_SINC_* converters are based on the techniques of
Chris@0 106 <A HREF="http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/">Julius O. Smith</A>
Chris@0 107 although this code was developed independantly.
Chris@0 108 <LI> <B>SRC_SINC_MEDIUM_QUALITY</B> - This is another bandlimited interpolator
Chris@0 109 much like the previous one. It has an SNR of 97dB and a bandwidth of 90&#37;.
Chris@0 110 The speed of the conversion is much faster than the previous one.
Chris@0 111 <LI> <B>SRC_SINC_FASTEST</B> - This is the fastest bandlimited interpolator and
Chris@0 112 has an SNR of 97dB and a bandwidth of 80&#37;.
Chris@0 113 <LI><B>SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD</B> - A Zero Order Hold converter (interpolated value
Chris@0 114 is equal to the last value). The quality is poor but the conversion speed is
Chris@0 115 blindlingly fast.
Chris@0 116 <li><b>SRC_LINEAR</b> - A linear converter. Again the quality is poor, but the
Chris@0 117 conversion speed is blindingly fast.
Chris@0 118 </UL>
Chris@0 119 <P>
Chris@0 120 There are two functions that give either a (text string) name or description
Chris@0 121 for each converter:
Chris@0 122 </P>
Chris@0 123 <PRE>
Chris@0 124 const char *src_get_name (int converter_type) ;
Chris@0 125 const char *src_get_description (int converter_type) ;
Chris@0 126 </PRE>
Chris@0 127 <P>
Chris@0 128 The name will typically be a short string for use in a dialog box, while the
Chris@0 129 description string is longer.
Chris@0 130 </P>
Chris@0 131 <P>
Chris@0 132 Both of these functions return a NULL pointer if there is no converter for the
Chris@0 133 given <B>converter_type</B> value.
Chris@0 134 Since the converters have consecutive <B>converter_type</B> values, the caller
Chris@0 135 is easily able to figure out the number of converters at run time.
Chris@0 136 This enables a binary dynamically linked against an old version of the library
Chris@0 137 to know about converters from later versions of the library as they become
Chris@0 138 available.
Chris@0 139 </P>
Chris@0 140
Chris@0 141 <A NAME="SRC_DATA"></A>
Chris@0 142 <H3><BR>SRC_DATA</H3>
Chris@0 143 <P>
Chris@0 144 Both the simple and the full featured versions of the API use the <B>SRC_DATA</B>
Chris@0 145 struct to pass audio and control data into the sample rate converter.
Chris@0 146 This struct is defined as:
Chris@0 147 </P>
Chris@0 148 <PRE>
Chris@0 149 typedef struct
Chris@0 150 { float *data_in, *data_out ;
Chris@0 151
Chris@0 152 long input_frames, output_frames ;
Chris@0 153 long input_frames_used, output_frames_gen ;
Chris@0 154
Chris@0 155 int end_of_input ;
Chris@0 156
Chris@0 157 double src_ratio ;
Chris@0 158 } SRC_DATA ;
Chris@0 159 </PRE>
Chris@0 160 <P>
Chris@0 161 The <B>data_in</B> pointer is used to pass audio data into the converter while the
Chris@0 162 <B>data_out</B> pointer supplies the converter with an array to hold the converter's
Chris@0 163 output.
Chris@0 164 For a converter which has been configured for mulitchannel operation, these pointers
Chris@0 165 need to point to a single array of interleaved data.
Chris@0 166 </P>
Chris@0 167 <P>
Chris@0 168 The <B>input_frames</B> and <B>output_frames</B> fields supply the converter with
Chris@0 169 the lengths of the arrays (in frames) pointed to by the <B>data_in</B> and
Chris@0 170 <b>data_out</B> pointers respectively.
Chris@0 171 For monophinc data, these values would indicate the length of the arrays while
Chris@0 172 for multi channel data these values would be equal to the the length of the array
Chris@0 173 divided by the number of channels.
Chris@0 174 </P>
Chris@0 175
Chris@0 176 <P>
Chris@0 177 The <B>end_of_input</B> field is only used when the sample rate converter is used
Chris@0 178 by calling the <B>src_process</B> function.
Chris@0 179 In this case it should be set to zero if more buffers are to be passed to the
Chris@0 180 converter and 1 if the current buffer is the last.
Chris@0 181 </P>
Chris@0 182 <P>
Chris@0 183 Finally, the <B>src_ratio</B> field specifies the conversion ratio defined as
Chris@0 184 the input sample rate divided by the output sample rate.
Chris@0 185 For a connected set of buffers, this value can be varies on each call to
Chris@0 186 <B>src_process</B> resulting in a time varying sample rate conversion
Chris@0 187 process.
Chris@0 188 For time varying sample rate conversions, the ratio will be linearly
Chris@0 189 interpolated between the <B>src_ratio</B> value of the previous call
Chris@0 190 to <B>src_process</B> and the value for the current call.
Chris@0 191 </P>
Chris@0 192 <P>
Chris@0 193 The <B>input_frames_used</B> and <B>output_frames_gen</B> fields are set by the
Chris@0 194 converter to inform the caller of the number of frames consumed from the
Chris@0 195 <B>data_in</B> array and the number of frames generated in the <B>data_out</B>
Chris@0 196 array respectively.
Chris@0 197 These values are for the current call to <B>src_process</B> only.
Chris@0 198 </P>
Chris@0 199
Chris@0 200 <A NAME="Aux"></A>
Chris@0 201 <H3><BR>Auxillary Functions</H3>
Chris@0 202 <P>
Chris@0 203 There are four auxillary functions for converting arrays of float data
Chris@0 204 to and from short or int data.
Chris@0 205 These functions are defined as:
Chris@0 206 </P>
Chris@0 207 <PRE>
Chris@0 208 void src_short_to_float_array (const short *in, float *out, int len) ;
Chris@0 209 void src_float_to_short_array (const float *in, short *out, int len) ;
Chris@0 210 void src_int_to_float_array (const int *in, float *out, int len) ;
Chris@0 211 void src_float_to_int_array (const float *in, int *out, int len) ;
Chris@0 212 </PRE>
Chris@0 213 <P>
Chris@0 214 The float data is assumed to be in the range [-1.0, 1.0] and it is
Chris@0 215 automatically scaled on the conversion to and from float.
Chris@0 216 On the float to short/int conversion path, any data values which would overflow
Chris@0 217 the range of short/int data are clipped.
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