1<html> 2 3<head> 4<title>Vorbisfile - function - ov_read</title> 5<link rel=stylesheet href="style.css" type="text/css"> 6</head> 7 8<body bgcolor=white text=black link="#5555ff" alink="#5555ff" vlink="#5555ff"> 9<table border=0 width=100%> 10<tr> 11<td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td> 12<td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.2.0 - 20070723</p></td> 13</tr> 14</table> 15 16<h1>ov_read()</h1> 17 18<p><i>declared in "vorbis/vorbisfile.h";</i></p> 19 20<p> 21 This is the main function used to decode a Vorbis file within a 22 loop. It returns up to the specified number of bytes of decoded PCM audio 23 in the requested endianness, signedness, and word size. If the audio is 24 multichannel, the channels are interleaved in the output buffer. 25 If the passed in buffer is large, <tt>ov_read()</tt> will not fill 26 it; the passed in buffer size is treated as a <em>limit</em> and 27 not a request. 28 29<p>The output channels are in stream order and not remapped. Vorbis I 30defines channel order as follows: 31 32<ul> 33<li>one channel - the stream is monophonic 34<li>two channels - the stream is stereo. channel order: left, right 35<li>three channels - the stream is a 1d-surround encoding. channel order: left, 36center, right 37<li>four channels - the stream is quadraphonic surround. channel order: front left, 38front right, rear left, rear right 39<li>five channels - the stream is five-channel surround. channel order: front left, 40center, front right, rear left, rear right 41<li>six channels - the stream is 5.1 surround. channel order: front left, center, 42front right, rear left, rear right, LFE 43<li>seven channels - the stream is 6.1 surround. channel order: front left, center, 44front right, side left, side right, rear center, LFE 45<li>eight channels - the stream is 7.1 surround. channel order: front left, center, 46front right, side left, side right, rear left, rear right, 47LFE 48<li>greater than eight channels - channel use and order is undefined 49</ul> 50 51<p>Note that up to this point, the Vorbisfile API could more or less hide the 52 multiple logical bitstream nature of chaining from the toplevel 53 application if the toplevel application didn't particularly care. 54 However, when reading audio back, the application must be aware 55 that multiple bitstream sections do not necessarily use the same 56 number of channels or sampling rate. <p> <tt>ov_read()</tt> passes 57 back the index of the sequential logical bitstream currently being 58 decoded (in <tt>*bitstream</tt>) along with the PCM data in order 59 that the toplevel application can handle channel and/or sample 60 rate changes. This number will be incremented at chaining 61 boundaries even for non-seekable streams. For seekable streams, it 62 represents the actual chaining index within the physical bitstream. 63<p> 64 65<br><br> 66<table border=0 color=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=7> 67<tr bgcolor=#cccccc> 68 <td> 69<pre><b> 70long ov_read(<a href="OggVorbis_File.html">OggVorbis_File</a> *vf, char *buffer, int length, int bigendianp, int word, int sgned, int *bitstream); 71</b></pre> 72 </td> 73</tr> 74</table> 75 76<h3>Parameters</h3> 77<dl> 78<dt><i>vf</i></dt> 79<dd>A pointer to the OggVorbis_File structure--this is used for ALL the externally visible libvorbisfile 80functions.</dd> 81<dt><i>buffer</i></dt> 82<dd>A pointer to an output buffer. The decoded output is inserted into this buffer.</dd> 83<dt><i>length</i></dt> 84<dd>Number of bytes to be read into the buffer. Should be the same size as the buffer. A typical value is 4096.</dd> 85<dt><i>bigendianp</i></dt> 86<dd>Specifies big or little endian byte packing. 0 for little endian, 1 for b 87ig endian. Typical value is 0.</dd> 88<dt><i>word</i></dt> 89<dd>Specifies word size. Possible arguments are 1 for 8-bit samples, or 2 or 9016-bit samples. Typical value is 2.</dd> 91<dt><i>sgned</i></dt> 92<dd>Signed or unsigned data. 0 for unsigned, 1 for signed. Typically 1.</dd> 93<dt><i>bitstream</i></dt> 94<dd>A pointer to the number of the current logical bitstream.</dd> 95</dl> 96 97 98<h3>Return Values</h3> 99<blockquote> 100<dl> 101<dt>OV_HOLE</dt> 102 <dd>indicates there was an interruption in the data. 103 <br>(one of: garbage between pages, loss of sync followed by 104 recapture, or a corrupt page)</dd> 105<dt>OV_EBADLINK</dt> 106 <dd>indicates that an invalid stream section was supplied to 107 libvorbisfile, or the requested link is corrupt.</dd> 108<dt>OV_EINVAL</dt> 109 <dd>indicates the initial file headers couldn't be read or 110 are corrupt, or that the initial open call for <i>vf</i> 111 failed.</dd> 112<dt>0</dt> 113 <dd>indicates EOF</dd> 114<dt><i>n</i></dt> 115 <dd>indicates actual number of bytes read. <tt>ov_read()</tt> will 116 decode at most one vorbis packet per invocation, so the value 117 returned will generally be less than <tt>length</tt>. 118</dl> 119</blockquote> 120 121<h3>Notes</h3> 122<p><b>Typical usage:</b> 123<blockquote> 124<tt>bytes_read = ov_read(&vf, 125buffer, 4096,0,2,1,&current_section)</tt> 126</blockquote> 127 128This reads up to 4096 bytes into a buffer, with signed 16-bit 129little-endian samples. 130</p> 131 132 133 134<br><br> 135<hr noshade> 136<table border=0 width=100%> 137<tr valign=top> 138<td><p class=tiny>copyright © 2007 Xiph.org</p></td> 139<td align=right><p class=tiny><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></p></td> 140</tr><tr> 141<td><p class=tiny>Vorbisfile documentation</p></td> 142<td align=right><p class=tiny>vorbisfile version 1.2.0 - 20070723</p></td> 143</tr> 144</table> 145 146</body> 147 148</html> 149