1 all audio codecs (cook,atrk,14_4,28_8,dnet,sipr) have the same interface,
2 but i have only analyzed the cook codec
7 00 short text/description of the format (bitrate, when to use)
8 01 bitrate (bits/s) //avg. bytes/sec output
10 ulong: samples per second
12 ushort: number of channels
13 03 same as 02 //constant 2
15 05 constant 1 (always?)
16 06 ulong: block align (input frame size for RADecode)
17 07 string: minimum player version
29 13 min. output buffer size? max. number of samples?
37 ulong result=RAOpenCodec2(ra_main_t *raMain);
39 ulong result=RAInitDecoder(ra_main_t *raMain, ra_init_struct *raInit);
40 struct ra_init_struct {
42 ushort bits_per_sample; // unused by RAInitDecoder
43 ushort number_of_channels;
45 ushort unknown2; // also unused (100)
46 ulong leaf_size; // leaf size (used for interleaving, but
47 // exists in audio stream description header (ASDH))
48 ulong block_align; // packet size
49 ulong bits_per_sample; // unused (always 16)
50 char *ext_data; // 16 bytes located at the end of the
54 There are some information missing that you usually need for playback,
55 like bits per sample (the fileds aren't read by RAInitDecoder()). These
56 are hard coded in the "flavors", i.e. the sub formats. A flavor is an entry
57 in the list of available format variations like bitrate, number of channels,
58 decoding algorithm, and so on.We can get those information with the
63 void *GetRAFlavorProperty(ra_main_t *raMain, ulong flavor, ulong property,
64 short *property_length_in_bytes);
65 returns property data for a specific data
67 This is not important, because it's just a read only function.
68 These flavor properties don't seem to exist in
71 ulong RADecode(ra_main_t *raMain, char *input_buffer,
72 ulong input_buffer_size, char *output_buffer,
73 ulong *decoded_bytes, ulong p6=-1);
75 RAFreeDecoder(ra_main_t *);
77 RACloseCodec(ra_main_t *);
80 ulong RASetFlavor(ra_main_t *ra_main, ulong flavor);
82 Set the flavor of the stream.
84 a flavor is an entry in the list of available format variations like
85 bitrate, number of channels, decoding algorithm, and so on
91 With Real Audio V5 (or earlier?), the audio streams can be interleaved,
92 i.e. the stream is striped amongst several data packets. The packets
93 (which have a fixed size packet_len) are split up into a fixed number
94 of num_parts equally sized parts - I call them leaves in lack of
95 better name. The leaves have the size leaf_size = packet_len / num_parts.
97 To create a bunch of packets, you need 2*num_parts stream packets.
98 The first part of the first stream packet is stored in leaf number 0,
99 the first part of the second into leaf number num_parts, the one of the
100 next one into leaf number 1 etc. The following part of a stream packet
101 is stored 2*num_packets behind the current part of the same stream packet.
103 In short words: when you have a matrix with the leaves as the values,
104 it's a transposition in conjunction with a permutation.
106 packet | leaf | stream packet, part no.
107 -------+---------------+------------------------
112 0 | num_parts-1 | (2*num_parts-2,0)
113 0 | num_parts | (1,0)
114 0 | num_parts+1 | (3,0)
117 0 | 2*num_parts-1 | (2*num_parts-1,0)
132 RAGetFlavorProperty(0xE)
134 sequence of RADecode()s
136 once a RAGetFlavorProperty(0xE) after some RADecode()s
138 and occasionally the following sequence:
139 RAGetFlavorProperty(0)
140 RAGetFlavorProperty(7)
141 which is rather pointless because they only return
142 cleartext audio descriptions
150 RAFlush(ra_main_t *raMain, char *output_buffer, ulong *retval)
151 will be called when seeking
152 output_buffer points to the output buffer from the last
154 retval is unknown, returning always 0x18 in a specific sample
155 -> further investigation needed