[speex-dev] draft-herlein-speex-rtp-profile-01

[Tom Grandgent]

Ok, I figured it out. :)  This seems to work:

1) Call speex_bits_read_from() once, specifying the location in 
memory of the compressed data, and the total length of that data.

2) Keep calling speex_decode() until speex_bits_remaining() 
returns 0.

Then you don't have to keep track of the # of frames per packet, 
or the size of each compressed frame.  It's done magically by the 
codec.

I now see that in section 4.5 of SpeexManual.pdf it touches on this 
briefly, and mentions a terminator code.  But, it's not quite clear 
as to how this terminator code is used... especially since it refers 
to figure 4 which doesn't seem to exist.  (doc bug?)

Might I humbly recommend a section of documentation elaborating on 
the use of the speex_bits*() calls ...

Tom

<p>Tom Grandgent (tgrand at canvaslink.com) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about section 3.4 of the RTP payload draft:
> 
> > Speex codecs [11] are able to detect the the bitrate from the
> > payload and are responsible for detecting the 20 msec boundaries
> > between each frame.
> 
> This suggests that you can encode some frames with Speex, pass the 
> compressed bits to the decoder, and you'll get the output - without 
> having to do external bookkeeping for compressed frame size.  (I'm 
> thinking of VBR here where compressed frame size varies constantly.)
> 
> If this is true, how does one go about leaving this responsibility to 
> the codec?  It seems like I have to pass the size of the compressed 
> frame as the last parameter of speex_bits_read_from(), then call 
> speex_decode() to decode one frame at a time.  This is how the sample 
> code in the manual works, and the reference manual doesn't shed any 
> light on this.
> 
> So basically, if I'm given an RTP packet with several back-to-back 
> VBR-compressed Speex frames, how do I decode it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom

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