[Speex-dev] Decoded output buffer size

[Conrad Parker]

On 15 April 2010 17:55, Daniele Barzotti
<daniele.barzotti at eurocomtel.com> wrote:
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> Il 15/04/2010 01:30, Conrad Parker wrote:
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>>> But how can I know the size of each speex frame into a multiframe payload?
>>
>> use speex_bit_read_from() just once on the packet, then call
>> speex_decode() once for each frame.
>>
>> Conrad.
>
> Thanks for the reply, Conrad.
> What is not clear for me (and I didn't found it on the manual) is how to
> decode a multi-frame payload.
> Once have called speex_bits_read_from, I need a way to know how many
> speex frames there are, how can I do this?
>
> I try to use speex_bits_remaining, but after some cycles it returns
> always 4.
>
> UINT DecodePayload( char* payload, UINT payload_len )
> {
>  speex_bits_reset(&spx_bits_);
>  speex_bits_read_from(&spx_bits_, payload, payload_len);
>  UINT nbBytes = speex_bits_remaining(&spx_bits_);
>
>  while (nbBytes>0)
>  {
>    speex_decode(spx_state_, &spx_bits_, spx_dec_frame_);
>    nbBytes = speex_bits_remaining(&spx_bits_);
>
>    // Save the speex frame into the buffer
>    DecOutBuffer_.Write(spx_dec_frame_, spx_frame_size_);
>  }
> }
>
> Any suggestion?

I think speex_decode() updates the number of bits remaining; here's what I use:

http://git.xiph.org/?p=libfishsound.git;a=blob;f=src/libfishsound/speex.c;h=ac435cba37354d85c2852ce4c7c6305490c0d585;hb=HEAD#l342

but the number of frames in a packet is up to your application. For an
Ogg stream it will be a field in the speex_header, for RTP using SDP
it is calculated from ptime according to section 5.6 of RFC5574:
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5574.txt
Without SDP, section 3.5 states:

  "The Speex decoder [SPEEX] can detect the bit-rate from the payload
   and is responsible for detecting the 20 msec boundaries between each
   frame."

but I don't know how that translates into libspeex calls. Jean-Marc?

Conrad.