Speex dev - Apr 2006 - HW-Speex: Fileformat and encoding process

Hi 

I have just written a small c programm which reads in speex files and outputs 
them as asci text numbers. This is necessary as for writing a hw testbench 
for decoding tests, since thy only read ascii files :-(.I can't read the 
bitrate properly from the header file. It's allways -1. Please see example 
below and attached c programm. I wan't to check for a fixed bitrate (8000). 
The only difference is the framesize of the ogg file, which is not a sure 
guess due to the -nframes option?

Is there a discription of the format of the frames. What is the reason that 
the first frame after the header is larger than the other frames?

Thanks
ST

speex-1.1.12/src/speexenc -n --bitrate 12000 female.wav female_nb_12.spx
readspx female_nb_12.spx |head -20
speex header
Version:1.1.12
rate:8000
mode:0
mode_bitstream_version:4
nb_channels:1
bitrate:-1
frame_size:160
vbr:0
frames_per_packet:1
extra_headers:0
Framesize:33
25
0
0
0
69
110
99
111

speex-1.1.12/src/speexenc -n --bitrate 8000 female.wav female_nb_8.spx
readspx female_nb_8.spx |head -20
speex header
Version:1.1.12
rate:8000
mode:0
mode_bitstream_version:4
nb_channels:1
bitrate:-1
frame_size:160
vbr:0
frames_per_packet:1
extra_headers:0
Framesize:33
25
0
0
0
69
110
99
111
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> I have just written a small c programm which reads in speex files and
outputs
> them as asci text numbers. This is necessary as for writing a hw testbench 
> for decoding tests, since thy only read ascii files :-(.I can't read
the
> bitrate properly from the header file. It's allways -1. 
Sorry about that, my encoder never actually bothered setting the bitrate
field. It doesn't matter much because Speex is designed to be able to
switch bit-rate on the fly and encodes the bit-rate directly in each
encoded frame. For narrowband, the bit-stream is defined in Tables 3 and
4 of http://www.speex.org/manual2/node9.html#SECTION00094000000000000000
This means that at 8 kbps, all frames will start with (in binary) 00011 
> Please see example 
> below and attached c programm. I wan't to check for a fixed bitrate
(8000).
> The only difference is the framesize of the ogg file, which is not a sure 
> guess due to the -nframes option?
Not sure I understand what you mean here...
> Is there a discription of the format of the frames. What is the reason that
> the first frame after the header is larger than the other frames?
The only description of the format is the link above, but I can answer
the remaining questions you have. If you encode in CBR, all frames are
the same size, which is 20 bytes at 8 kbps. If you're seeing something
different then it may be a problem with the Ogg parsing.

I don't know the context of your project, but it may not be necessary to
play with Ogg at all. Speex only uses Ogg for encoding to files (so they
can be seeked and all). Applications like VoIP don't use Ogg at all.

	Jean-Marc
> Thanks
> ST
> 
> speex-1.1.12/src/speexenc -n --bitrate 12000 female.wav female_nb_12.spx
> readspx female_nb_12.spx |head -20
> speex header
> Version:1.1.12
> rate:8000
> mode:0
> mode_bitstream_version:4
> nb_channels:1
> bitrate:-1
> frame_size:160
> vbr:0
> frames_per_packet:1
> extra_headers:0
> Framesize:33
> 25
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 69
> 110
> 99
> 111
> 
> speex-1.1.12/src/speexenc -n --bitrate 8000 female.wav female_nb_8.spx
> readspx female_nb_8.spx |head -20
> speex header
> Version:1.1.12
> rate:8000
> mode:0
> mode_bitstream_version:4
> nb_channels:1
> bitrate:-1
> frame_size:160
> vbr:0
> frames_per_packet:1
> extra_headers:0
> Framesize:33
> 25
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 69
> 110
> 99
> 111
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