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authorarpi <arpi@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-06-13 13:32:10 +0000
committerarpi <arpi@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2002-06-13 13:32:10 +0000
commit502d92895923310758b837619635bfe51e153b1b (patch)
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merged with patch by Florian Schneider <flo-mplayer-dev@gmx.net>
git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@6416 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
Diffstat (limited to 'DOCS/tech/realcodecs')
-rw-r--r--DOCS/tech/realcodecs/TODO28
-rw-r--r--DOCS/tech/realcodecs/audio-codecs.txt118
2 files changed, 120 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/TODO b/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/TODO
index 37450eadf1..504f844d42 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/TODO
+++ b/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/TODO
@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
TODO:
- more docs are coming as I find the time to write them down
-- USE_REALCODECS is needed in config.h -> configure - DONE
-- the original player is doing something I don't know of:
- I compare the input and output data of the original and mplayer.
- While the input is the same, the ouput differs. - DONE
- the frame rate is incorrect - WHY?? need sample, can't reproduce
+ -> see still_stil_still.ram. it needs the value six bytes
+ behind the frame rate. I have activated this for RV[23]0.
+ The sample plays at 12fps (without this patch), realplay
+ play it correctly with 15fps. - possibly DONE
- use RV20toYUV420Free()
-- rvyuvMain and the two format dwords should be stored inside
- st_context, so we don't use constants in the demuxer and the
- wrapper - DONE
-- audio support (mainly for COOK)
-- RV20 support - DONE
+- audio support - nearly DONE (look below)
- internet streaming support
-- searching
-- get it to work before (they stream) the Bizarre festival :)
+- searching - we need to take care of the audio interleaving -
+ haven't taken steps to locate audio key frames (does such thing
+ exist?)
+- some media files can't be played (mplayer crashes/fails) because
+ it asks for decoded audio data, but the buffer in the audio
+ demuxer packets are empty/missing. It seems that the necessary
+ audio packets haven't been decoded completely (incomplete interleaving)
+ the audio stream packets may get mixed with video stream packet
+- put variables for audio streaming inside real_priv_t
+- audio support for other formats than COOK - use a switch
+ (like -forcereal) to activate it
+
diff --git a/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/audio-codecs.txt b/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/audio-codecs.txt
index a2e8f02d22..04ed152912 100644
--- a/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/audio-codecs.txt
+++ b/DOCS/tech/realcodecs/audio-codecs.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ all audio codecs (cook,atrk,14_4,28_8,dnet,sipr) have the same interface,
but i have only analyzed the cook codec
-audio properties
+audio properties (hex)
00 short text/description of the format (bitrate, when to use)
01 bitrate (bits/s) //avg. bytes/sec output
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ audio properties
0B n/a
0C n/a
0D ?
-0E ?
+0E ? leaf size
0F ?
10 ?
11 ?
@@ -36,26 +36,38 @@ functions:
ulong result=RAOpenCodec2(ra_main_t *raMain);
-ulong result=RAInitDecoder(ra_main_t *raMain, p2);
-p2 points to an array of 7 longs:
+ulong result=RAInitDecoder(ra_main_t *raMain, ra_init_struct *raInit);
+struct ra_init_struct {
+ ulong sample_rate;
+ ushort bits_per_sample; // unused by RAInitDecoder
+ ushort number_of_channels;
+ ushort unknown1; // 0
+ ushort unknown2; // also unused (100)
+ ulong leaf_size; // leaf size (used for interleaving, but
+ // exists in audio stream description header (ASDH))
+ ulong block_align; // packet size
+ ulong bits_per_sample; // unused (always 16)
+ char *ext_data; // 16 bytes located at the end of the
+ // ASDH
+};
+
+There are some information missing that you usually need for playback,
+like bits per sample (the fileds aren't read by RAInitDecoder()). These
+are hard coded in the "flavors", i.e. the sub formats. A flavor is an entry
+in the list of available format variations like bitrate, number of channels,
+decoding algorithm, and so on.We can get those information with the
+following command:
-bfffefe0 22 56 00 00 10 00 02 00 64 00 00 00 3c 00 00 00 "V......d...<...
-bfffeff0 58 02 00 00 10 00 00 00 f0 73 1c 08 7c f0 ff bf X........s..|...
-
-long 00005622=22050 (Hz)
-short 0010=16 (bit)
-short 0002=2 (channels)
-long 00000064=100 ???
-long 0000003c=60 ???
-long 00000258=600 packet size (used for 'p3' of RADecode)
-long 00000010=16 ???
-long 081c73f0= looks like a pointer
void *GetRAFlavorProperty(ra_main_t *raMain, ulong flavor, ulong property,
short *property_length_in_bytes);
returns property data for a specific data
+This is not important, because it's just a read only function.
+These flavor properties don't seem to exist in
+
+
ulong RADecode(ra_main_t *raMain, char *input_buffer,
ulong input_buffer_size, char *output_buffer,
ulong *decoded_bytes, ulong p6=-1);
@@ -66,5 +78,81 @@ RACloseCodec(ra_main_t *);
ulong RASetFlavor(ra_main_t *ra_main, ulong flavor);
+
+Set the flavor of the stream.
+
a flavor is an entry in the list of available format variations like
bitrate, number of channels, decoding algorithm, and so on
+
+
+audio data storage:
+-------------------
+
+With Real Audio V5 (or earlier?), the audio streams can be interleaved,
+i.e. the stream is striped amongst several data packets. The packets
+(which have a fixed size packet_len) are split up into a fixed number
+of num_parts equally sized parts - I call them leaves in lack of
+better name. The leaves have the size leaf_size = packet_len / num_parts.
+
+To create a bunch of packets, you need 2*num_parts stream packets.
+The first part of the first stream packet is stored in leaf number 0,
+the first part of the second into leaf number num_parts, the one of the
+next one into leaf number 1 etc. The following part of a stream packet
+is stored 2*num_packets behind the current part of the same stream packet.
+
+In short words: when you have a matrix with the leaves as the values,
+it's a transposition in conjunction with a permutation.
+
+packet | leaf | stream packet, part no.
+-------+---------------+------------------------
+0 | 0 | (0,0)
+0 | 1 | (2,0)
+. | . | .
+. | . | .
+0 | num_parts-1 | (2*num_parts-2,0)
+0 | num_parts | (1,0)
+0 | num_parts+1 | (3,0)
+. | . | .
+. | . | .
+0 | 2*num_parts-1 | (2*num_parts-1,0)
+1 | 0 | (0,1)
+. | . | .
+. | . | .
+
+
+sequence of calls:
+------------------
+
+RAOpenCodec2()
+
+RAInitDecoder()
+
+RASetFlavor()
+
+RAGetFlavorProperty(0xE)
+
+sequence of RADecode()s
+
+once a RAGetFlavorProperty(0xE) after some RADecode()s
+
+and occasionally the following sequence:
+RAGetFlavorProperty(0)
+RAGetFlavorProperty(7)
+which is rather pointless because they only return
+cleartext audio descriptions
+
+RAFreeDecoder()
+
+RACloseCodec()
+
+
+
+RAFlush(ra_main_t *raMain, char *output_buffer, ulong *retval)
+will be called when seeking
+output_buffer points to the output buffer from the last
+decode operation.
+retval is unknow, returning always 0x18 in a specific sample
+-> further investigation needed
+
+
+