[Flac-dev] Unified codec interface

[Drew Hess]

That's what UCI is trying to do.  I'm hoping for just a simple unified Ogg
interface for the audio codecs that Ogg supports.


-dwh-


On 31 Jan 2003, Csillag Kristóf wrote:

> Here is what I imagined (just vague thoughts, nothing polished):
> 
> Let's suppose we have a hypotetical library called
> "Free Universal Codec Kit" - ..um...well.. Frunick for short :)
> 
> (Of course I am not proposing this name, I'm sure the suits in the
> industry would not like it...but for my example its OK ;)
> 
> Now, an application should do something like this:
> 
> #include <frunick.h>
> 
> void *my_encoder = create_frunick_encoder();
> // a new encoding context
> 
> char **codecs = get_available_frunick_codecs();
> // returns list of available codecs
> 
> load_frunick_codec(my_encoder, "vorbis");
> //dynamically loads the selected codec, returns error if not available
> 
> char **parameters == get_frunick_codecs_parameters();
> //get a list of the tuneable params of the selected codec
> 
> specify_frunick_parameter(my_encoder, "quality", "7");
> //set a parameter of the codec
> 
> ....and so on.
> 
> I have not yet looked into nor gstreamer nor uci
> ( http://uci.sourceforge.net/ ), so I don't know whether this thing
> already exists ... but I hope once it will!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Csillag Kristóf <fenwick at freemail.hu>
> 
> 
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