Chris@2: /* libFLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec library
Chris@2: * Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson
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Chris@2:
Chris@2: #ifndef FLAC__ALL_H
Chris@2: #define FLAC__ALL_H
Chris@2:
Chris@2: #include "export.h"
Chris@2:
Chris@2: #include "assert.h"
Chris@2: #include "callback.h"
Chris@2: #include "format.h"
Chris@2: #include "metadata.h"
Chris@2: #include "ordinals.h"
Chris@2: #include "stream_decoder.h"
Chris@2: #include "stream_encoder.h"
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \mainpage
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section intro Introduction
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * This is the documentation for the FLAC C and C++ APIs. It is
Chris@2: * highly interconnected; this introduction should give you a top
Chris@2: * level idea of the structure and how to find the information you
Chris@2: * need. As a prerequisite you should have at least a basic
Chris@2: * knowledge of the FLAC format, documented
Chris@2: * here.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section c_api FLAC C API
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The FLAC C API is the interface to libFLAC, a set of structures
Chris@2: * describing the components of FLAC streams, and functions for
Chris@2: * encoding and decoding streams, as well as manipulating FLAC
Chris@2: * metadata in files. The public include files will be installed
Chris@2: * in your include area (for example /usr/include/FLAC/...).
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * By writing a little code and linking against libFLAC, it is
Chris@2: * relatively easy to add FLAC support to another program. The
Chris@2: * library is licensed under Xiph's BSD license.
Chris@2: * Complete source code of libFLAC as well as the command-line
Chris@2: * encoder and plugins is available and is a useful source of
Chris@2: * examples.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Aside from encoders and decoders, libFLAC provides a powerful
Chris@2: * metadata interface for manipulating metadata in FLAC files. It
Chris@2: * allows the user to add, delete, and modify FLAC metadata blocks
Chris@2: * and it can automatically take advantage of PADDING blocks to avoid
Chris@2: * rewriting the entire FLAC file when changing the size of the
Chris@2: * metadata.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * libFLAC usually only requires the standard C library and C math
Chris@2: * library. In particular, threading is not used so there is no
Chris@2: * dependency on a thread library. However, libFLAC does not use
Chris@2: * global variables and should be thread-safe.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * libFLAC also supports encoding to and decoding from Ogg FLAC.
Chris@2: * However the metadata editing interfaces currently have limited
Chris@2: * read-only support for Ogg FLAC files.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section cpp_api FLAC C++ API
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The FLAC C++ API is a set of classes that encapsulate the
Chris@2: * structures and functions in libFLAC. They provide slightly more
Chris@2: * functionality with respect to metadata but are otherwise
Chris@2: * equivalent. For the most part, they share the same usage as
Chris@2: * their counterparts in libFLAC, and the FLAC C API documentation
Chris@2: * can be used as a supplement. The public include files
Chris@2: * for the C++ API will be installed in your include area (for
Chris@2: * example /usr/include/FLAC++/...).
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * libFLAC++ is also licensed under
Chris@2: * Xiph's BSD license.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section getting_started Getting Started
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * A good starting point for learning the API is to browse through
Chris@2: * the modules. Modules are logical
Chris@2: * groupings of related functions or classes, which correspond roughly
Chris@2: * to header files or sections of header files. Each module includes a
Chris@2: * detailed description of the general usage of its functions or
Chris@2: * classes.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * From there you can go on to look at the documentation of
Chris@2: * individual functions. You can see different views of the individual
Chris@2: * functions through the links in top bar across this page.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * If you prefer a more hands-on approach, you can jump right to some
Chris@2: * example code.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section porting_guide Porting Guide
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Starting with FLAC 1.1.3 a \link porting Porting Guide \endlink
Chris@2: * has been introduced which gives detailed instructions on how to
Chris@2: * port your code to newer versions of FLAC.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \section embedded_developers Embedded Developers
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * libFLAC has grown larger over time as more functionality has been
Chris@2: * included, but much of it may be unnecessary for a particular embedded
Chris@2: * implementation. Unused parts may be pruned by some simple editing of
Chris@2: * src/libFLAC/Makefile.am. In general, the decoders, encoders, and
Chris@2: * metadata interface are all independent from each other.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * It is easiest to just describe the dependencies:
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * - All modules depend on the \link flac_format Format \endlink module.
Chris@2: * - The decoders and encoders depend on the bitbuffer.
Chris@2: * - The decoder is independent of the encoder. The encoder uses the
Chris@2: * decoder because of the verify feature, but this can be removed if
Chris@2: * not needed.
Chris@2: * - Parts of the metadata interface require the stream decoder (but not
Chris@2: * the encoder).
Chris@2: * - Ogg support is selectable through the compile time macro
Chris@2: * \c FLAC__HAS_OGG.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * For example, if your application only requires the stream decoder, no
Chris@2: * encoder, and no metadata interface, you can remove the stream encoder
Chris@2: * and the metadata interface, which will greatly reduce the size of the
Chris@2: * library.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Also, there are several places in the libFLAC code with comments marked
Chris@2: * with "OPT:" where a #define can be changed to enable code that might be
Chris@2: * faster on a specific platform. Experimenting with these can yield faster
Chris@2: * binaries.
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \defgroup porting Porting Guide for New Versions
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * This module describes differences in the library interfaces from
Chris@2: * version to version. It assists in the porting of code that uses
Chris@2: * the libraries to newer versions of FLAC.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * One simple facility for making porting easier that has been added
Chris@2: * in FLAC 1.1.3 is a set of \c #defines in \c export.h of each
Chris@2: * library's includes (e.g. \c include/FLAC/export.h). The
Chris@2: * \c #defines mirror the libraries'
Chris@2: * libtool version numbers,
Chris@2: * e.g. in libFLAC there are \c FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT,
Chris@2: * \c FLAC_API_VERSION_REVISION, and \c FLAC_API_VERSION_AGE.
Chris@2: * These can be used to support multiple versions of an API during the
Chris@2: * transition phase, e.g.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \code
Chris@2: * #if !defined(FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT) || FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT <= 7
Chris@2: * legacy code
Chris@2: * #else
Chris@2: * new code
Chris@2: * #endif
Chris@2: * \endcode
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The the source will work for multiple versions and the legacy code can
Chris@2: * easily be removed when the transition is complete.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Another available symbol is FLAC_API_SUPPORTS_OGG_FLAC (defined in
Chris@2: * include/FLAC/export.h), which can be used to determine whether or not
Chris@2: * the library has been compiled with support for Ogg FLAC. This is
Chris@2: * simpler than trying to call an Ogg init function and catching the
Chris@2: * error.
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \defgroup porting_1_1_2_to_1_1_3 Porting from FLAC 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
Chris@2: * \ingroup porting
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \brief
Chris@2: * This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.2 to FLAC 1.1.3.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The main change between the APIs in 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 is that they have
Chris@2: * been simplified. First, libOggFLAC has been merged into libFLAC and
Chris@2: * libOggFLAC++ has been merged into libFLAC++. Second, both the three
Chris@2: * decoding layers and three encoding layers have been merged into a
Chris@2: * single stream decoder and stream encoder. That is, the functionality
Chris@2: * of FLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder and FLAC__FileDecoder has been merged
Chris@2: * into FLAC__StreamDecoder, and FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoder and
Chris@2: * FLAC__FileEncoder into FLAC__StreamEncoder. Only the
Chris@2: * FLAC__StreamDecoder and FLAC__StreamEncoder remain. What this means
Chris@2: * is there is now a single API that can be used to encode or decode
Chris@2: * streams to/from native FLAC or Ogg FLAC and the single API can work
Chris@2: * on both seekable and non-seekable streams.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Instead of creating an encoder or decoder of a certain layer, now the
Chris@2: * client will always create a FLAC__StreamEncoder or
Chris@2: * FLAC__StreamDecoder. The old layers are now differentiated by the
Chris@2: * initialization function. For example, for the decoder,
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_init() has been replaced by
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_stream(). This init function takes
Chris@2: * callbacks for the I/O, and the seeking callbacks are optional. This
Chris@2: * allows the client to use the same object for seekable and
Chris@2: * non-seekable streams. For decoding a FLAC file directly, the client
Chris@2: * can use FLAC__stream_decoder_init_file() and pass just a filename
Chris@2: * and fewer callbacks; most of the other callbacks are supplied
Chris@2: * internally. For situations where fopen()ing by filename is not
Chris@2: * possible (e.g. Unicode filenames on Windows) the client can instead
Chris@2: * open the file itself and supply the FILE* to
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_FILE(). The init functions now returns a
Chris@2: * FLAC__StreamDecoderInitStatus instead of FLAC__StreamDecoderState.
Chris@2: * Since the callbacks and client data are now passed to the init
Chris@2: * function, the FLAC__stream_decoder_set_*_callback() functions and
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_set_client_data() are no longer needed. The
Chris@2: * rest of the calls to the decoder are the same as before.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * There are counterpart init functions for Ogg FLAC, e.g.
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_ogg_stream(). All the rest of the calls
Chris@2: * and callbacks are the same as for native FLAC.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * As an example, in FLAC 1.1.2 a seekable stream decoder would have
Chris@2: * been set up like so:
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \code
Chris@2: * FLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder *decoder = FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_new();
Chris@2: * if(decoder == NULL) do_something;
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_md5_checking(decoder, true);
Chris@2: * [... other settings ...]
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_read_callback(decoder, my_read_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_seek_callback(decoder, my_seek_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_tell_callback(decoder, my_tell_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_length_callback(decoder, my_length_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_eof_callback(decoder, my_eof_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_write_callback(decoder, my_write_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_metadata_callback(decoder, my_metadata_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_error_callback(decoder, my_error_callback);
Chris@2: * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_client_data(decoder, my_client_data);
Chris@2: * if(FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_init(decoder) != FLAC__SEEKABLE_STREAM_DECODER_OK) do_something;
Chris@2: * \endcode
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * In FLAC 1.1.3 it is like this:
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \code
Chris@2: * FLAC__StreamDecoder *decoder = FLAC__stream_decoder_new();
Chris@2: * if(decoder == NULL) do_something;
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_decoder_set_md5_checking(decoder, true);
Chris@2: * [... other settings ...]
Chris@2: * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_stream(
Chris@2: * decoder,
Chris@2: * my_read_callback,
Chris@2: * my_seek_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_tell_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_length_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_eof_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_write_callback,
Chris@2: * my_metadata_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_error_callback,
Chris@2: * my_client_data
Chris@2: * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
Chris@2: * \endcode
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * or you could do;
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \code
Chris@2: * [...]
Chris@2: * FILE *file = fopen("somefile.flac","rb");
Chris@2: * if(file == NULL) do_somthing;
Chris@2: * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_FILE(
Chris@2: * decoder,
Chris@2: * file,
Chris@2: * my_write_callback,
Chris@2: * my_metadata_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_error_callback,
Chris@2: * my_client_data
Chris@2: * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
Chris@2: * \endcode
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * or just:
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \code
Chris@2: * [...]
Chris@2: * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_file(
Chris@2: * decoder,
Chris@2: * "somefile.flac",
Chris@2: * my_write_callback,
Chris@2: * my_metadata_callback, // or NULL
Chris@2: * my_error_callback,
Chris@2: * my_client_data
Chris@2: * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
Chris@2: * \endcode
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Another small change to the decoder is in how it handles unparseable
Chris@2: * streams. Before, when the decoder found an unparseable stream
Chris@2: * (reserved for when the decoder encounters a stream from a future
Chris@2: * encoder that it can't parse), it changed the state to
Chris@2: * \c FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM. Now the decoder instead
Chris@2: * drops sync and calls the error callback with a new error code
Chris@2: * \c FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM. This is
Chris@2: * more robust. If your error callback does not discriminate on the the
Chris@2: * error state, your code does not need to be changed.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The encoder now has a new setting:
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_encoder_set_apodization(). This is for setting the
Chris@2: * method used to window the data before LPC analysis. You only need to
Chris@2: * add a call to this function if the default is not suitable. There
Chris@2: * are also two new convenience functions that may be useful:
Chris@2: * FLAC__metadata_object_cuesheet_calculate_cddb_id() and
Chris@2: * FLAC__metadata_get_cuesheet().
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The \a bytes parameter to FLAC__StreamDecoderReadCallback,
Chris@2: * FLAC__StreamEncoderReadCallback, and FLAC__StreamEncoderWriteCallback
Chris@2: * is now \c size_t instead of \c unsigned.
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \defgroup porting_1_1_3_to_1_1_4 Porting from FLAC 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
Chris@2: * \ingroup porting
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \brief
Chris@2: * This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.3 to FLAC 1.1.4.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * There were no changes to any of the interfaces from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4.
Chris@2: * There was a slight change in the implementation of
Chris@2: * FLAC__stream_encoder_set_metadata(); the function now makes a copy
Chris@2: * of the \a metadata array of pointers so the client no longer needs
Chris@2: * to maintain it after the call. The objects themselves that are
Chris@2: * pointed to by the array are still not copied though and must be
Chris@2: * maintained until the call to FLAC__stream_encoder_finish().
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \defgroup porting_1_1_4_to_1_2_0 Porting from FLAC 1.1.4 to 1.2.0
Chris@2: * \ingroup porting
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * \brief
Chris@2: * This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.4 to FLAC 1.2.0.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * There were only very minor changes to the interfaces from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0.
Chris@2: * In libFLAC, \c FLAC__format_sample_rate_is_subset() was added.
Chris@2: * In libFLAC++, \c FLAC::Decoder::Stream::get_decode_position() was added.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * Finally, value of the constant \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_RESERVED_LEN
Chris@2: * has changed to reflect the conversion of one of the reserved bits
Chris@2: * into active use. It used to be \c 2 and now is \c 1. However the
Chris@2: * FLAC frame header length has not changed, so to skip the proper
Chris@2: * number of bits, use \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_RESERVED_LEN +
Chris@2: * \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_BLOCKING_STRATEGY_LEN
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: /** \defgroup flac FLAC C API
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * The FLAC C API is the interface to libFLAC, a set of structures
Chris@2: * describing the components of FLAC streams, and functions for
Chris@2: * encoding and decoding streams, as well as manipulating FLAC
Chris@2: * metadata in files.
Chris@2: *
Chris@2: * You should start with the format components as all other modules
Chris@2: * are dependent on it.
Chris@2: */
Chris@2:
Chris@2: #endif