[flac-dev] FLAC QUESTION

[Brian Willoughby]

On Apr 12, 2012, at 07:12, Rafael Velasquez wrote:
> I'm using flac for an application.
> The fact is that i'm trying to encode a file that is not necessary  
> a wav file.
>
> So, at first, i would like to know if it's possible to encode a  
> file different from the wav file with the flac encoder ?


First of all, the FLAC API does not work with WAV format data - you  
must provide raw audio samples.  If you have a WAV file, then you  
should use other code (your own?) to extract the raw audio samples  
from the file, leaving out the chunk headers and other, non-audio  
information.  You should also make sure that the FLAC object is  
initialized to accept the same size samples and channel count as you  
have in your data, and it would probably be a good idea to match the  
sample rate as well for proper decoding later.  Beware that the  
format you have may not exactly match what the FLAC library wants, so  
you may have to alter the data slightly before sending it to the API.

So, it doesn't matter whether you have WAV, AIFF, SDII, or some other  
file, because your code must first extract the raw audio samples from  
the file before calling the FLAC library.

Note that you can encode a WAV file as FLAC, and then later decode  
the FLAC file as AIFF.  FLAC does not usually care what the  
uncompressed foreign file format was (unless you use "preserve  
foreign metadata").  These operations are supported by the command- 
line program, but the WAV and AIFF format code is not part of the  
FLAC library.


> When i put my data into : ok =  
> FLAC__stream_encoder_process_interleaved(encoder, pcm, need);
>
> after some rounds in my boucl i get  :
> encoding: FAILED
>    state: FLAC__STREAM_ENCODER_VERIFY_MISMATCH_IN_AUDIO_DATA    
> (<=== what does it really mean ? and what are the reasons to be in  
> this case ? )
>
> I'm not english spoker, so sorry if i'm not very clear.

There is documentation for the FLAC API.  I do not see anything  
describing error messages, but you could look into the source code.   
My guess is that "mismatch" refers to the checksum.  I do not have an  
answer for you here, but perhaps you can continue to work on your  
code and find the problem.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting