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NAME
gsm_option — customizing the GSM 06.10 implementation
SYNOPSIS
#include "gsm.h"
int gsm_option(handle, option, valueP);
gsm handle;
int option;
int * valueP;
DESCRIPTION
The gsm library is an implementation of the final draft GSM 06.10 standard for full-rate speech
transcoding, a lossy speech compression algorithm.
The gsm_option() function can be used to set and query various options or flags that are not needed for
regular GSM 06.10 encoding or decoding, but might be of interest in special cases.
The second argument to gsm_option specifies what parameter should be changed or queried. The third
argument is either a null pointer, in which case the current value of that parameter is returned; or it
is a pointer to an integer containing the value you want to set, in which case the previous value will be
returned.
The following options are defined:
GSM_OPT_VERBOSE Verbosity level.
This option is only supported if the library was compiled with debugging turned on, and may be
used by developers of compression algorithms to aid debugging.
The verbosity level can be changed at any time during encoding or decoding.
GSM_OPT_FAST Faster compression algorithm.
This implementation offers a not strictly standard-compliant, but faster compression algorithm
that is compatible with the regular method and does not noticably degrade audio quality.
The value passed to
gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_FAST, & value)
functions as a boolean flag; if it is zero, the regular algorithm will be used, if not, the faster
version will be used.
The availability of this option depends on the hardware used; if it is not available, gsm_option
will return -1 on an attempt to set or query it.
This option can be set any time during encoding or decoding.
GSM_OPT_LTP_CUT Enable, disable, or query the LTP cut-off optimization.
During encoding, the search for the long-term correlation lag forms the bottleneck of the
algorithm. The ltp-cut option enables an approximation that disregards most of the samples for
purposes of finding that correlation, and hence speeds up the encoding at a noticable loss in
quality.
The value passed to
gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_LTP_CUT, & value)
turns the optimization on if nonzero, and off if zero.
This option can be set any time during encoding or decoding; it will only affect the encoding
pass, not the decoding.
GSM_OPT_WAV49 WAV-style byte ordering.
A WAV file of type #49 contains GSM 06.10-encoded frames. Unfortunately, the framing and code
ordering of the WAV version are incompatible with the native ones of this GSM 06.10 library. The
GSM_OPT_WAV49 option turns on a different packing algorithm that produces alternating frames of 32
and 33 bytes (or makes it consume alternating frames of 33 and 32 bytes, note the opposite order
of the two numbers) which, when concatenated, can be used in the body of a WAV #49 frame. It is
up to the user program to write a WAV header, if any; neither the library itself nor the toast
program produce complete WAV files.
The value passed to
gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_WAV49, & value)
functions as a boolean flag; if it is zero, the library's native framing algorithm will be used,
if nonzero, WAV-type packing is in effect.
This option should be used before any frames are encoded. Whether or not it is supported at all
depends on a compile-time switch, WAV49. Both option and compile time switch are new to the
library as of patchlevel 9, and are considerably less tested than the well-worn rest of the it.
Thanks to Jeff Chilton for the detective work and first free implementation of this version of the
GSM 06.10 encoding.
GSM_OPT_FRAME_CHAIN Query or set the chaining byte.
Between the two frames of a WAV-style encoding, the GSM 06.10 library must keep track of one half-
byte that is technically part of the first frame, but will be written as the first four bits of
the second. This half-byte are the lowest four bits of the value returned by, and optionally set
by,
gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_FRAME_CHAIN, & value)
This option can be queried and set at any time.
GSM_OPT_FRAME_INDEX Query or set the current frame's index in a format's alternating list of frames.
The WAV #49 framing uses two alternating types of frames. Which type the next GSM-coded frame
belongs to can be queried, or, when decoding, announced, using
gsm_option(handle, GSM_OPT_FRAME_INDEX, & value)
For WAV-style framing, the value should be 0 or 1; the first frame of an encoding has an index of
0. At library initialization, the index is set to zero.
The frame index can be queried and set at any time. Used in combination with the
GSM_OPT_FRAME_CHAIN, option, it can be used to position on arbitrary GSM frames within a format
like WAV #49 (not accounting for the lost internal GSM state).
RETURN VALUE
gsm_option() returns -1 if an option is not supported, the previous value of the option otherwise.
BUGS
Please direct bug reports to jutta@cs.tu-berlin.de and cabo@cs.tu-berlin.de.
SEE ALSO
toast(1), gsm(3), gsm_explode(3), gsm_print(3) GSM_OPTION(3)