flac dev - Sep 2004 - Finding start of audio data using metadata level 2 interface.

* Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> shaped the electrons to say...
>not exactly.  the metadata interface won't tell you, but you
>can create a decoder (say file decoder), set it up, then call
>
>  FLAC__file_decoder_process_until_end_of_metadata(...)
>  FLAC__file_decoder_get_decode_position(...)
>
>and that will tell you.  the decode position is relative to
>the start of the file even if you have an id3v2 tag in front.
Yeah, I was trying to avoid doing that. This is meant for some fast (as
opposed to the current pure perl version) header parsing only code, not doing
a decoder in this piece as well.

It looks like FLAC__Metadata_Chain has a last_offset - but it's not exposed.
That should theoretically give me the position after the last metadata block?

-D
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--- Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> wrote:
> * Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> shaped the electrons to say...
> 
> >not exactly.  the metadata interface won't tell you, but you
> >can create a decoder (say file decoder), set it up, then call
> >
> >  FLAC__file_decoder_process_until_end_of_metadata(...)
> >  FLAC__file_decoder_get_decode_position(...)
> >
> >and that will tell you.  the decode position is relative to
> >the start of the file even if you have an id3v2 tag in front.
> 
> Yeah, I was trying to avoid doing that. This is meant for some fast
> (as
> opposed to the current pure perl version) header parsing only code,
> not doing
> a decoder in this piece as well.
> 
> It looks like FLAC__Metadata_Chain has a last_offset - but it's not
> exposed.
> That should theoretically give me the position after the last
> metadata block?
yep, that will work too.  but just writing skipping code is
pretty simple:

is_last=0
read 'fLaC' string
while (!is_last) {
   read 1 byte metadata block type
   read 3 byte metadata block length
   is_last = type & 0x80
   fseek(file,length,SEEK_CUR)
}
last_offset=ftell(file)

see also:
  http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_header
'length' is big-endian

Josh



		
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* Josh Coalson <xflac@yahoo.com> shaped the electrons to say...
>yep, that will work too.  but just writing skipping code is
>pretty simple:
>
>is_last=0
>read 'fLaC' string
>while (!is_last) {
>   read 1 byte metadata block type
>   read 3 byte metadata block length
>   is_last = type & 0x80
>   fseek(file,length,SEEK_CUR)
>}
>last_offset=ftell(file)
>
>see also:
>  http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block_header
>'length' is big-endian
Should type be of FLAC__byte, and length of FLAC__uint32? I'm not having
much
luck here.. (not a C programmer by nature).


-D
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