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31
32#ifndef FLAC__ALL_H
33#define FLAC__ALL_H
34
35#include "export.h"
36
37#include "assert.h"
38#include "callback.h"
39#include "format.h"
40#include "metadata.h"
41#include "ordinals.h"
42#include "stream_decoder.h"
43#include "stream_encoder.h"
44
45/** \mainpage
46 *
47 * \section intro Introduction
48 *
49 * This is the documentation for the FLAC C and C++ APIs.  It is
50 * highly interconnected; this introduction should give you a top
51 * level idea of the structure and how to find the information you
52 * need.  As a prerequisite you should have at least a basic
53 * knowledge of the FLAC format, documented
54 * <A HREF="../format.html">here</A>.
55 *
56 * \section c_api FLAC C API
57 *
58 * The FLAC C API is the interface to libFLAC, a set of structures
59 * describing the components of FLAC streams, and functions for
60 * encoding and decoding streams, as well as manipulating FLAC
61 * metadata in files.  The public include files will be installed
62 * in your include area (for example /usr/include/FLAC/...).
63 *
64 * By writing a little code and linking against libFLAC, it is
65 * relatively easy to add FLAC support to another program.  The
66 * library is licensed under <A HREF="../license.html">Xiph's BSD license</A>.
67 * Complete source code of libFLAC as well as the command-line
68 * encoder and plugins is available and is a useful source of
69 * examples.
70 *
71 * Aside from encoders and decoders, libFLAC provides a powerful
72 * metadata interface for manipulating metadata in FLAC files.  It
73 * allows the user to add, delete, and modify FLAC metadata blocks
74 * and it can automatically take advantage of PADDING blocks to avoid
75 * rewriting the entire FLAC file when changing the size of the
76 * metadata.
77 *
78 * libFLAC usually only requires the standard C library and C math
79 * library. In particular, threading is not used so there is no
80 * dependency on a thread library. However, libFLAC does not use
81 * global variables and should be thread-safe.
82 *
83 * libFLAC also supports encoding to and decoding from Ogg FLAC.
84 * However the metadata editing interfaces currently have limited
85 * read-only support for Ogg FLAC files.
86 *
87 * \section cpp_api FLAC C++ API
88 *
89 * The FLAC C++ API is a set of classes that encapsulate the
90 * structures and functions in libFLAC.  They provide slightly more
91 * functionality with respect to metadata but are otherwise
92 * equivalent.  For the most part, they share the same usage as
93 * their counterparts in libFLAC, and the FLAC C API documentation
94 * can be used as a supplement.  The public include files
95 * for the C++ API will be installed in your include area (for
96 * example /usr/include/FLAC++/...).
97 *
98 * libFLAC++ is also licensed under
99 * <A HREF="../license.html">Xiph's BSD license</A>.
100 *
101 * \section getting_started Getting Started
102 *
103 * A good starting point for learning the API is to browse through
104 * the <A HREF="modules.html">modules</A>.  Modules are logical
105 * groupings of related functions or classes, which correspond roughly
106 * to header files or sections of header files.  Each module includes a
107 * detailed description of the general usage of its functions or
108 * classes.
109 *
110 * From there you can go on to look at the documentation of
111 * individual functions.  You can see different views of the individual
112 * functions through the links in top bar across this page.
113 *
114 * If you prefer a more hands-on approach, you can jump right to some
115 * <A HREF="../documentation_example_code.html">example code</A>.
116 *
117 * \section porting_guide Porting Guide
118 *
119 * Starting with FLAC 1.1.3 a \link porting Porting Guide \endlink
120 * has been introduced which gives detailed instructions on how to
121 * port your code to newer versions of FLAC.
122 *
123 * \section embedded_developers Embedded Developers
124 *
125 * libFLAC has grown larger over time as more functionality has been
126 * included, but much of it may be unnecessary for a particular embedded
127 * implementation.  Unused parts may be pruned by some simple editing of
128 * src/libFLAC/Makefile.am.  In general, the decoders, encoders, and
129 * metadata interface are all independent from each other.
130 *
131 * It is easiest to just describe the dependencies:
132 *
133 * - All modules depend on the \link flac_format Format \endlink module.
134 * - The decoders and encoders depend on the bitbuffer.
135 * - The decoder is independent of the encoder.  The encoder uses the
136 *   decoder because of the verify feature, but this can be removed if
137 *   not needed.
138 * - Parts of the metadata interface require the stream decoder (but not
139 *   the encoder).
140 * - Ogg support is selectable through the compile time macro
141 *   \c FLAC__HAS_OGG.
142 *
143 * For example, if your application only requires the stream decoder, no
144 * encoder, and no metadata interface, you can remove the stream encoder
145 * and the metadata interface, which will greatly reduce the size of the
146 * library.
147 *
148 * Also, there are several places in the libFLAC code with comments marked
149 * with "OPT:" where a #define can be changed to enable code that might be
150 * faster on a specific platform.  Experimenting with these can yield faster
151 * binaries.
152 */
153
154/** \defgroup porting Porting Guide for New Versions
155 *
156 * This module describes differences in the library interfaces from
157 * version to version.  It assists in the porting of code that uses
158 * the libraries to newer versions of FLAC.
159 *
160 * One simple facility for making porting easier that has been added
161 * in FLAC 1.1.3 is a set of \c #defines in \c export.h of each
162 * library's includes (e.g. \c include/FLAC/export.h).  The
163 * \c #defines mirror the libraries'
164 * <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Libtool-versioning">libtool version numbers</A>,
165 * e.g. in libFLAC there are \c FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT,
166 * \c FLAC_API_VERSION_REVISION, and \c FLAC_API_VERSION_AGE.
167 * These can be used to support multiple versions of an API during the
168 * transition phase, e.g.
169 *
170 * \code
171 * #if !defined(FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT) || FLAC_API_VERSION_CURRENT <= 7
172 *   legacy code
173 * #else
174 *   new code
175 * #endif
176 * \endcode
177 *
178 * The the source will work for multiple versions and the legacy code can
179 * easily be removed when the transition is complete.
180 *
181 * Another available symbol is FLAC_API_SUPPORTS_OGG_FLAC (defined in
182 * include/FLAC/export.h), which can be used to determine whether or not
183 * the library has been compiled with support for Ogg FLAC.  This is
184 * simpler than trying to call an Ogg init function and catching the
185 * error.
186 */
187
188/** \defgroup porting_1_1_2_to_1_1_3 Porting from FLAC 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
189 *  \ingroup porting
190 *
191 *  \brief
192 *  This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.2 to FLAC 1.1.3.
193 *
194 * The main change between the APIs in 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 is that they have
195 * been simplified.  First, libOggFLAC has been merged into libFLAC and
196 * libOggFLAC++ has been merged into libFLAC++.  Second, both the three
197 * decoding layers and three encoding layers have been merged into a
198 * single stream decoder and stream encoder.  That is, the functionality
199 * of FLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder and FLAC__FileDecoder has been merged
200 * into FLAC__StreamDecoder, and FLAC__SeekableStreamEncoder and
201 * FLAC__FileEncoder into FLAC__StreamEncoder.  Only the
202 * FLAC__StreamDecoder and FLAC__StreamEncoder remain.  What this means
203 * is there is now a single API that can be used to encode or decode
204 * streams to/from native FLAC or Ogg FLAC and the single API can work
205 * on both seekable and non-seekable streams.
206 *
207 * Instead of creating an encoder or decoder of a certain layer, now the
208 * client will always create a FLAC__StreamEncoder or
209 * FLAC__StreamDecoder.  The old layers are now differentiated by the
210 * initialization function.  For example, for the decoder,
211 * FLAC__stream_decoder_init() has been replaced by
212 * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_stream().  This init function takes
213 * callbacks for the I/O, and the seeking callbacks are optional.  This
214 * allows the client to use the same object for seekable and
215 * non-seekable streams.  For decoding a FLAC file directly, the client
216 * can use FLAC__stream_decoder_init_file() and pass just a filename
217 * and fewer callbacks; most of the other callbacks are supplied
218 * internally.  For situations where fopen()ing by filename is not
219 * possible (e.g. Unicode filenames on Windows) the client can instead
220 * open the file itself and supply the FILE* to
221 * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_FILE().  The init functions now returns a
222 * FLAC__StreamDecoderInitStatus instead of FLAC__StreamDecoderState.
223 * Since the callbacks and client data are now passed to the init
224 * function, the FLAC__stream_decoder_set_*_callback() functions and
225 * FLAC__stream_decoder_set_client_data() are no longer needed.  The
226 * rest of the calls to the decoder are the same as before.
227 *
228 * There are counterpart init functions for Ogg FLAC, e.g.
229 * FLAC__stream_decoder_init_ogg_stream().  All the rest of the calls
230 * and callbacks are the same as for native FLAC.
231 *
232 * As an example, in FLAC 1.1.2 a seekable stream decoder would have
233 * been set up like so:
234 *
235 * \code
236 * FLAC__SeekableStreamDecoder *decoder = FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_new();
237 * if(decoder == NULL) do_something;
238 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_md5_checking(decoder, true);
239 * [... other settings ...]
240 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_read_callback(decoder, my_read_callback);
241 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_seek_callback(decoder, my_seek_callback);
242 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_tell_callback(decoder, my_tell_callback);
243 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_length_callback(decoder, my_length_callback);
244 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_eof_callback(decoder, my_eof_callback);
245 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_write_callback(decoder, my_write_callback);
246 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_metadata_callback(decoder, my_metadata_callback);
247 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_error_callback(decoder, my_error_callback);
248 * FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_set_client_data(decoder, my_client_data);
249 * if(FLAC__seekable_stream_decoder_init(decoder) != FLAC__SEEKABLE_STREAM_DECODER_OK) do_something;
250 * \endcode
251 *
252 * In FLAC 1.1.3 it is like this:
253 *
254 * \code
255 * FLAC__StreamDecoder *decoder = FLAC__stream_decoder_new();
256 * if(decoder == NULL) do_something;
257 * FLAC__stream_decoder_set_md5_checking(decoder, true);
258 * [... other settings ...]
259 * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_stream(
260 *   decoder,
261 *   my_read_callback,
262 *   my_seek_callback,      // or NULL
263 *   my_tell_callback,      // or NULL
264 *   my_length_callback,    // or NULL
265 *   my_eof_callback,       // or NULL
266 *   my_write_callback,
267 *   my_metadata_callback,  // or NULL
268 *   my_error_callback,
269 *   my_client_data
270 * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
271 * \endcode
272 *
273 * or you could do;
274 *
275 * \code
276 * [...]
277 * FILE *file = fopen("somefile.flac","rb");
278 * if(file == NULL) do_somthing;
279 * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_FILE(
280 *   decoder,
281 *   file,
282 *   my_write_callback,
283 *   my_metadata_callback,  // or NULL
284 *   my_error_callback,
285 *   my_client_data
286 * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
287 * \endcode
288 *
289 * or just:
290 *
291 * \code
292 * [...]
293 * if(FLAC__stream_decoder_init_file(
294 *   decoder,
295 *   "somefile.flac",
296 *   my_write_callback,
297 *   my_metadata_callback,  // or NULL
298 *   my_error_callback,
299 *   my_client_data
300 * ) != FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_INIT_STATUS_OK) do_something;
301 * \endcode
302 *
303 * Another small change to the decoder is in how it handles unparseable
304 * streams.  Before, when the decoder found an unparseable stream
305 * (reserved for when the decoder encounters a stream from a future
306 * encoder that it can't parse), it changed the state to
307 * \c FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM.  Now the decoder instead
308 * drops sync and calls the error callback with a new error code
309 * \c FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_UNPARSEABLE_STREAM.  This is
310 * more robust.  If your error callback does not discriminate on the the
311 * error state, your code does not need to be changed.
312 *
313 * The encoder now has a new setting:
314 * FLAC__stream_encoder_set_apodization().  This is for setting the
315 * method used to window the data before LPC analysis.  You only need to
316 * add a call to this function if the default is not suitable.   There
317 * are also two new convenience functions that may be useful:
318 * FLAC__metadata_object_cuesheet_calculate_cddb_id() and
319 * FLAC__metadata_get_cuesheet().
320 *
321 * The \a bytes parameter to FLAC__StreamDecoderReadCallback,
322 * FLAC__StreamEncoderReadCallback, and FLAC__StreamEncoderWriteCallback
323 * is now \c size_t instead of \c unsigned.
324 */
325
326/** \defgroup porting_1_1_3_to_1_1_4 Porting from FLAC 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
327 *  \ingroup porting
328 *
329 *  \brief
330 *  This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.3 to FLAC 1.1.4.
331 *
332 * There were no changes to any of the interfaces from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4.
333 * There was a slight change in the implementation of
334 * FLAC__stream_encoder_set_metadata(); the function now makes a copy
335 * of the \a metadata array of pointers so the client no longer needs
336 * to maintain it after the call.  The objects themselves that are
337 * pointed to by the array are still not copied though and must be
338 * maintained until the call to FLAC__stream_encoder_finish().
339 */
340
341/** \defgroup porting_1_1_4_to_1_2_0 Porting from FLAC 1.1.4 to 1.2.0
342 *  \ingroup porting
343 *
344 *  \brief
345 *  This module describes porting from FLAC 1.1.4 to FLAC 1.2.0.
346 *
347 * There were only very minor changes to the interfaces from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0.
348 * In libFLAC, \c FLAC__format_sample_rate_is_subset() was added.
349 * In libFLAC++, \c FLAC::Decoder::Stream::get_decode_position() was added.
350 *
351 * Finally, value of the constant \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_RESERVED_LEN
352 * has changed to reflect the conversion of one of the reserved bits
353 * into active use.  It used to be \c 2 and now is \c 1.  However the
354 * FLAC frame header length has not changed, so to skip the proper
355 * number of bits, use \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_RESERVED_LEN +
356 * \c FLAC__FRAME_HEADER_BLOCKING_STRATEGY_LEN
357 */
358
359/** \defgroup flac FLAC C API
360 *
361 * The FLAC C API is the interface to libFLAC, a set of structures
362 * describing the components of FLAC streams, and functions for
363 * encoding and decoding streams, as well as manipulating FLAC
364 * metadata in files.
365 *
366 * You should start with the format components as all other modules
367 * are dependent on it.
368 */
369
370#endif
371