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gsmefr-encode-r utility put together
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Thu, 15 Dec 2022 01:42:31 +0000 |
parents | 30c7bc064218 |
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Standalone command line utilities for FR and EFR codecs ======================================================= The pre-existing FOSS opencore-amr package includes amrnb-enc and amrnb-dec test programs: the first reads linear PCM from a WAV file and emits AMR encoder output in a .amr file (RFC 4867 AMR storage format), the second reads this .amr format and emits AMR decoder output as WAV. Inspired by these simple test programs, the present package offers equivalent command line utilities for GSM FR and EFR codecs. Here they are: gsmfr-encode This utility reads linear PCM from a WAV file, runs libgsm 06.10 encoder and writes the output in the classic .gsm format (directly abutted FR codec frames of 33 bytes each). We don't currently have a Tx-side DTX implementation (VAD etc) for GSM FR, hence the output from gsmfr-encode will always consist of good speech frames only. gsmfr-decode This utility reads our gsmx format (see Binary-file-format article), which is a superset of the classic libgsm format. The input to gsmfr-decode may be a pure .gsm recording as produced by gsmfr-encode or toast from libgsm package, or it can also contain SID frames and/or BFI markers. The processing performed by gsmfr-decode begins with our FR1 Rx DTX handler preprocessor, which will be an identity transform for pure .gsm input but becomes important for real-world input containing SIDs and BFIs, and is followed by gsm_decode() from libgsm. The decoded output is written as WAV. gsmefr-encode This utility reads linear PCM from a WAV file, runs our EFR encoder (Themyscira libgsmefr) and writes the output in our gsmx format. There is an option to enable or disable DTX: -d enables DTX, otherwise it is disabled. (This option mirrors amrnb-enc.) gsmefr-decode This utility reads our gsmx format (which must be EFR, not FR1) and feeds all frames and BFIs to our EFR decoder. The decoded output is written as WAV. WAV reading and writing functions used by the above utilities have been lifted out of opencore-amrnb test code. Now that we are starting to encounter use cases that involve more than feeding a PC microphone recording to test encoders and playing decoder output on PC speakers, many of those other use cases call for using raw format instead of WAV for 16-bit linear PCM. While it would be philosophically most proper to add an option to gsm[e]fr-encode and gsm[e]fr-decode utilities to read/write raw PCM files instead of WAV, doing so would complicate the code too much. As a compromise between code simplicity and functionality, we provide lossless conversion utilities - see PCM-file-formats article.