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author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 08 May 2023 04:29:05 +0000
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1 When it comes to codec libraries, testing for correctness is essential, and EFR
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2 is no exception. There is a set of EFR encoder and decoder test sequences
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3 published by ETSI in ts_100725v050200p0.zip (GSM 06.54), and our suite of tools
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4 includes gsmefr-etsi-enc and gsmefr-etsi-dec test programs that operate on the
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5 representation formats used by these test sequences. Because these test
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6 programs are based on libgsmefr EFR_encode_frame() and EFR_decode_frame()
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7 functions, seeing gsmefr-etsi-enc produce output that matches official ETSI
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8 *.cod files proves that libgsmefr encoder is correct, and seeing gsmefr-etsi-dec
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9 produce output that matches official ETSI *.out files proves that libgsmefr
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10 decoder is correct.
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12 For debugging, we also have gsmefr-cod-parse and gsmefr-dec-parse utilities that
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13 parse ETSI *.cod and *.dec file formats and dump their content in human-readable
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14 form similar to gsmrec-dump.
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16 Please note that all ETSI test sequence file formats are endian-dependent: their
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17 original programs read and write 16-bit words in the local machine's native byte
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18 order, and whenever you are working with published test sequence files, you have
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19 to check to see if they are BE or LE. Our gsmefr-etsi-{enc,dec} and
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20 gsmefr-{cod,dec}-parse programs support both byte orders; the default is LE
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21 (matching the main parts of ts_100725v050200p0.zip), or you can select BE with
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22 -b option.