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SDL_audio.h File Reference
#include "SDL_stdinc.h"
#include "SDL_error.h"
#include "SDL_endian.h"
#include "SDL_mutex.h"
#include "SDL_thread.h"
#include "SDL_rwops.h"
#include "begin_code.h"
#include "close_code.h"

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Classes

struct  SDL_AudioSpec
 
struct  SDL_AudioCVT
 A structure to hold a set of audio conversion filters and buffers. More...
 

Macros

#define SDL_AUDIOCVT_MAX_FILTERS   9
 Upper limit of filters in SDL_AudioCVT. More...
 
#define SDL_AUDIOCVT_PACKED
 
#define SDL_LoadWAV(file, spec, audio_buf, audio_len)   SDL_LoadWAV_RW(SDL_RWFromFile(file, "rb"),1, spec,audio_buf,audio_len)
 
#define SDL_MIX_MAXVOLUME   128
 
Audio flags
#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_BITSIZE   (0xFF)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_DATATYPE   (1<<8)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_ENDIAN   (1<<12)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_SIGNED   (1<<15)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_BITSIZE(x)   (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_BITSIZE)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISFLOAT(x)   (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_DATATYPE)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISBIGENDIAN(x)   (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_ENDIAN)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISSIGNED(x)   (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_SIGNED)
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISINT(x)   (!SDL_AUDIO_ISFLOAT(x))
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISLITTLEENDIAN(x)   (!SDL_AUDIO_ISBIGENDIAN(x))
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ISUNSIGNED(x)   (!SDL_AUDIO_ISSIGNED(x))
 
Audio format flags

Defaults to LSB byte order.

#define AUDIO_U8   0x0008
 
#define AUDIO_S8   0x8008
 
#define AUDIO_U16LSB   0x0010
 
#define AUDIO_S16LSB   0x8010
 
#define AUDIO_U16MSB   0x1010
 
#define AUDIO_S16MSB   0x9010
 
#define AUDIO_U16   AUDIO_U16LSB
 
#define AUDIO_S16   AUDIO_S16LSB
 
int32 support
#define AUDIO_S32LSB   0x8020
 
#define AUDIO_S32MSB   0x9020
 
#define AUDIO_S32   AUDIO_S32LSB
 
float32 support
#define AUDIO_F32LSB   0x8120
 
#define AUDIO_F32MSB   0x9120
 
#define AUDIO_F32   AUDIO_F32LSB
 
Native audio byte ordering
#define AUDIO_U16SYS   AUDIO_U16LSB
 
#define AUDIO_S16SYS   AUDIO_S16LSB
 
#define AUDIO_S32SYS   AUDIO_S32LSB
 
#define AUDIO_F32SYS   AUDIO_F32LSB
 
Allow change flags

Which audio format changes are allowed when opening a device.

#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FREQUENCY_CHANGE   0x00000001
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FORMAT_CHANGE   0x00000002
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_CHANNELS_CHANGE   0x00000004
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_SAMPLES_CHANGE   0x00000008
 
#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_ANY_CHANGE   (SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FREQUENCY_CHANGE|SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FORMAT_CHANGE|SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_CHANNELS_CHANGE|SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_SAMPLES_CHANGE)
 

Typedefs

typedef Uint16 SDL_AudioFormat
 Audio format flags. More...
 
typedef void(SDLCALLSDL_AudioCallback) (void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len)
 
typedef struct SDL_AudioSpec SDL_AudioSpec
 
typedef SDL_AudioFormat format
 
typedef struct SDL_AudioCVT SDL_AudioCVT
 
typedef Uint32 SDL_AudioDeviceID
 
typedef struct _SDL_AudioStream SDL_AudioStream
 

Functions

typedef void (SDLCALL *SDL_AudioFilter)(struct SDL_AudioCVT *cvt
 
DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver (void)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_OpenAudio (SDL_AudioSpec *desired, SDL_AudioSpec *obtained)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetNumAudioDevices (int iscapture)
 
DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDeviceName (int index, int iscapture)
 
DECLSPEC SDL_AudioDeviceID SDLCALL SDL_OpenAudioDevice (const char *device, int iscapture, const SDL_AudioSpec *desired, SDL_AudioSpec *obtained, int allowed_changes)
 
DECLSPEC SDL_AudioSpec *SDLCALL SDL_LoadWAV_RW (SDL_RWops *src, int freesrc, SDL_AudioSpec *spec, Uint8 **audio_buf, Uint32 *audio_len)
 Load the audio data of a WAVE file into memory. More...
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_FreeWAV (Uint8 *audio_buf)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_BuildAudioCVT (SDL_AudioCVT *cvt, SDL_AudioFormat src_format, Uint8 src_channels, int src_rate, SDL_AudioFormat dst_format, Uint8 dst_channels, int dst_rate)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_ConvertAudio (SDL_AudioCVT *cvt)
 
DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStream *SDLCALL SDL_NewAudioStream (const SDL_AudioFormat src_format, const Uint8 src_channels, const int src_rate, const SDL_AudioFormat dst_format, const Uint8 dst_channels, const int dst_rate)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamPut (SDL_AudioStream *stream, const void *buf, int len)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamGet (SDL_AudioStream *stream, void *buf, int len)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamAvailable (SDL_AudioStream *stream)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamFlush (SDL_AudioStream *stream)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamClear (SDL_AudioStream *stream)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_FreeAudioStream (SDL_AudioStream *stream)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_MixAudio (Uint8 *dst, const Uint8 *src, Uint32 len, int volume)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_MixAudioFormat (Uint8 *dst, const Uint8 *src, SDL_AudioFormat format, Uint32 len, int volume)
 
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_QueueAudio (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev, const void *data, Uint32 len)
 
DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_DequeueAudio (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev, void *data, Uint32 len)
 
DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_ClearQueuedAudio (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_CloseAudio (void)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_CloseAudioDevice (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 
Driver discovery functions

These functions return the list of built in audio drivers, in the order that they are normally initialized by default.

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetNumAudioDrivers (void)
 
DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDriver (int index)
 
Initialization and cleanup
DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioInit (const char *driver_name)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_AudioQuit (void)
 
Pause audio functions

These functions pause and unpause the audio callback processing. They should be called with a parameter of 0 after opening the audio device to start playing sound. This is so you can safely initialize data for your callback function after opening the audio device. Silence will be written to the audio device during the pause.

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_PauseAudio (int pause_on)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_PauseAudioDevice (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev, int pause_on)
 
Audio lock functions

The lock manipulated by these functions protects the callback function. During a SDL_LockAudio()/SDL_UnlockAudio() pair, you can be guaranteed that the callback function is not running. Do not call these from the callback function or you will cause deadlock.

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_LockAudio (void)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_LockAudioDevice (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_UnlockAudio (void)
 
DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_UnlockAudioDevice (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 

Audio state

Get the current audio state.

enum  SDL_AudioStatus { SDL_AUDIO_STOPPED = 0, SDL_AUDIO_PLAYING, SDL_AUDIO_PAUSED }
 
DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStatus SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioStatus (void)
 
DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStatus SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDeviceStatus (SDL_AudioDeviceID dev)
 

Detailed Description

Access to the raw audio mixing buffer for the SDL library.

Definition in file SDL_audio.h.

Macro Definition Documentation

◆ AUDIO_F32

#define AUDIO_F32   AUDIO_F32LSB

Definition at line 114 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_F32LSB

#define AUDIO_F32LSB   0x8120

32-bit floating point samples

Definition at line 112 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_F32MSB

#define AUDIO_F32MSB   0x9120

As above, but big-endian byte order

Definition at line 113 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_F32SYS

#define AUDIO_F32SYS   AUDIO_F32LSB

Definition at line 125 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S16

#define AUDIO_S16   AUDIO_S16LSB

Definition at line 96 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S16LSB

#define AUDIO_S16LSB   0x8010

Signed 16-bit samples

Definition at line 92 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S16MSB

#define AUDIO_S16MSB   0x9010

As above, but big-endian byte order

Definition at line 94 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S16SYS

#define AUDIO_S16SYS   AUDIO_S16LSB

Definition at line 123 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S32

#define AUDIO_S32   AUDIO_S32LSB

Definition at line 105 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S32LSB

#define AUDIO_S32LSB   0x8020

32-bit integer samples

Definition at line 103 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S32MSB

#define AUDIO_S32MSB   0x9020

As above, but big-endian byte order

Definition at line 104 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S32SYS

#define AUDIO_S32SYS   AUDIO_S32LSB

Definition at line 124 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_S8

#define AUDIO_S8   0x8008

Signed 8-bit samples

Definition at line 90 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_U16

#define AUDIO_U16   AUDIO_U16LSB

Definition at line 95 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_U16LSB

#define AUDIO_U16LSB   0x0010

Unsigned 16-bit samples

Definition at line 91 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_U16MSB

#define AUDIO_U16MSB   0x1010

As above, but big-endian byte order

Definition at line 93 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_U16SYS

#define AUDIO_U16SYS   AUDIO_U16LSB

Definition at line 122 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ AUDIO_U8

#define AUDIO_U8   0x0008

Unsigned 8-bit samples

Definition at line 89 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_ANY_CHANGE

Definition at line 144 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_CHANNELS_CHANGE

#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_CHANNELS_CHANGE   0x00000004

Definition at line 142 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FORMAT_CHANGE

#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FORMAT_CHANGE   0x00000002

Definition at line 141 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FREQUENCY_CHANGE

#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_FREQUENCY_CHANGE   0x00000001

Definition at line 140 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_SAMPLES_CHANGE

#define SDL_AUDIO_ALLOW_SAMPLES_CHANGE   0x00000008

Definition at line 143 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_BITSIZE

#define SDL_AUDIO_BITSIZE (   x)    (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_BITSIZE)

Definition at line 75 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISBIGENDIAN

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISBIGENDIAN (   x)    (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_ENDIAN)

Definition at line 77 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISFLOAT

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISFLOAT (   x)    (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_DATATYPE)

Definition at line 76 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISINT

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISINT (   x)    (!SDL_AUDIO_ISFLOAT(x))

Definition at line 79 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISLITTLEENDIAN

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISLITTLEENDIAN (   x)    (!SDL_AUDIO_ISBIGENDIAN(x))

Definition at line 80 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISSIGNED

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISSIGNED (   x)    (x & SDL_AUDIO_MASK_SIGNED)

Definition at line 78 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_ISUNSIGNED

#define SDL_AUDIO_ISUNSIGNED (   x)    (!SDL_AUDIO_ISSIGNED(x))

Definition at line 81 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_MASK_BITSIZE

#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_BITSIZE   (0xFF)

Definition at line 71 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_MASK_DATATYPE

#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_DATATYPE   (1<<8)

Definition at line 72 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_MASK_ENDIAN

#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_ENDIAN   (1<<12)

Definition at line 73 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIO_MASK_SIGNED

#define SDL_AUDIO_MASK_SIGNED   (1<<15)

Definition at line 74 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIOCVT_MAX_FILTERS

#define SDL_AUDIOCVT_MAX_FILTERS   9

Upper limit of filters in SDL_AudioCVT.

The maximum number of SDL_AudioFilter functions in SDL_AudioCVT is currently limited to 9. The SDL_AudioCVT.filters array has 10 pointers, one of which is the terminating NULL pointer.

Definition at line 203 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AUDIOCVT_PACKED

#define SDL_AUDIOCVT_PACKED

Definition at line 223 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_LoadWAV

#define SDL_LoadWAV (   file,
  spec,
  audio_buf,
  audio_len 
)    SDL_LoadWAV_RW(SDL_RWFromFile(file, "rb"),1, spec,audio_buf,audio_len)

Loads a WAV from a file. Compatibility convenience function.

Definition at line 484 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_MIX_MAXVOLUME

#define SDL_MIX_MAXVOLUME   128

Definition at line 649 of file SDL_audio.h.

Typedef Documentation

◆ format

Definition at line 194 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AudioCallback

typedef void(SDLCALL * SDL_AudioCallback) (void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len)

This function is called when the audio device needs more data.

Parameters
userdataAn application-specific parameter saved in the SDL_AudioSpec structure
streamA pointer to the audio data buffer.
lenThe length of that buffer in bytes.

Once the callback returns, the buffer will no longer be valid. Stereo samples are stored in a LRLRLR ordering.

You can choose to avoid callbacks and use SDL_QueueAudio() instead, if you like. Just open your audio device with a NULL callback.

Definition at line 163 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AudioCVT

typedef struct SDL_AudioCVT SDL_AudioCVT

◆ SDL_AudioDeviceID

SDL Audio Device IDs.

A successful call to SDL_OpenAudio() is always device id 1, and legacy SDL audio APIs assume you want this device ID. SDL_OpenAudioDevice() calls always returns devices >= 2 on success. The legacy calls are good both for backwards compatibility and when you don't care about multiple, specific, or capture devices.

Definition at line 330 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AudioFormat

Audio format flags.

These are what the 16 bits in SDL_AudioFormat currently mean... (Unspecified bits are always zero).

++-----------------------sample is signed if set
||
||       ++-----------sample is bigendian if set
||       ||
||       ||          ++---sample is float if set
||       ||          ||
||       ||          || +---sample bit size---+
||       ||          || |                     |
15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00

There are macros in SDL 2.0 and later to query these bits.

Definition at line 64 of file SDL_audio.h.

◆ SDL_AudioSpec

typedef struct SDL_AudioSpec SDL_AudioSpec

The calculated values in this structure are calculated by SDL_OpenAudio().

For multi-channel audio, the default SDL channel mapping is: 2: FL FR (stereo) 3: FL FR LFE (2.1 surround) 4: FL FR BL BR (quad) 5: FL FR FC BL BR (quad + center) 6: FL FR FC LFE SL SR (5.1 surround - last two can also be BL BR) 7: FL FR FC LFE BC SL SR (6.1 surround) 8: FL FR FC LFE BL BR SL SR (7.1 surround)

◆ SDL_AudioStream

typedef struct _SDL_AudioStream SDL_AudioStream

Definition at line 532 of file SDL_audio.h.

Enumeration Type Documentation

◆ SDL_AudioStatus

Enumerator
SDL_AUDIO_STOPPED 
SDL_AUDIO_PLAYING 
SDL_AUDIO_PAUSED 

Definition at line 395 of file SDL_audio.h.

Function Documentation

◆ SDL_AudioInit()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioInit ( const char *  driver_name)

◆ SDL_AudioQuit()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_AudioQuit ( void  )

◆ SDL_AudioStreamAvailable()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamAvailable ( SDL_AudioStream stream)

Get the number of converted/resampled bytes available. The stream may be buffering data behind the scenes until it has enough to resample correctly, so this number might be lower than what you expect, or even be zero. Add more data or flush the stream if you need the data now.

See also
SDL_NewAudioStream
SDL_AudioStreamPut
SDL_AudioStreamGet
SDL_AudioStreamFlush
SDL_AudioStreamClear
SDL_FreeAudioStream

◆ SDL_AudioStreamClear()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamClear ( SDL_AudioStream stream)

◆ SDL_AudioStreamFlush()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamFlush ( SDL_AudioStream stream)

Tell the stream that you're done sending data, and anything being buffered should be converted/resampled and made available immediately.

It is legal to add more data to a stream after flushing, but there will be audio gaps in the output. Generally this is intended to signal the end of input, so the complete output becomes available.

See also
SDL_NewAudioStream
SDL_AudioStreamPut
SDL_AudioStreamGet
SDL_AudioStreamAvailable
SDL_AudioStreamClear
SDL_FreeAudioStream

◆ SDL_AudioStreamGet()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamGet ( SDL_AudioStream stream,
void buf,
int  len 
)

Get converted/resampled data from the stream

Parameters
streamThe stream the audio is being requested from
bufA buffer to fill with audio data
lenThe maximum number of bytes to fill
Returns
The number of bytes read from the stream, or -1 on error
See also
SDL_NewAudioStream
SDL_AudioStreamPut
SDL_AudioStreamAvailable
SDL_AudioStreamFlush
SDL_AudioStreamClear
SDL_FreeAudioStream

◆ SDL_AudioStreamPut()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_AudioStreamPut ( SDL_AudioStream stream,
const void buf,
int  len 
)

Add data to be converted/resampled to the stream

Parameters
streamThe stream the audio data is being added to
bufA pointer to the audio data to add
lenThe number of bytes to write to the stream
Returns
0 on success, or -1 on error.
See also
SDL_NewAudioStream
SDL_AudioStreamGet
SDL_AudioStreamAvailable
SDL_AudioStreamFlush
SDL_AudioStreamClear
SDL_FreeAudioStream

◆ SDL_BuildAudioCVT()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_BuildAudioCVT ( SDL_AudioCVT cvt,
SDL_AudioFormat  src_format,
Uint8  src_channels,
int  src_rate,
SDL_AudioFormat  dst_format,
Uint8  dst_channels,
int  dst_rate 
)

This function takes a source format and rate and a destination format and rate, and initializes the cvt structure with information needed by SDL_ConvertAudio() to convert a buffer of audio data from one format to the other. An unsupported format causes an error and -1 will be returned.

Returns
0 if no conversion is needed, 1 if the audio filter is set up, or -1 on error.

◆ SDL_ClearQueuedAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_ClearQueuedAudio ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

Drop any queued audio data. For playback devices, this is any queued data still waiting to be submitted to the hardware. For capture devices, this is any data that was queued by the device that hasn't yet been dequeued by the application.

Immediately after this call, SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize() will return 0. For playback devices, the hardware will start playing silence if more audio isn't queued. Unpaused capture devices will start filling the queue again as soon as they have more data available (which, depending on the state of the hardware and the thread, could be before this function call returns!).

This will not prevent playback of queued audio that's already been sent to the hardware, as we can not undo that, so expect there to be some fraction of a second of audio that might still be heard. This can be useful if you want to, say, drop any pending music during a level change in your game.

You may not queue audio on a device that is using an application-supplied callback; calling this function on such a device is always a no-op. You have to queue audio with SDL_QueueAudio()/SDL_DequeueAudio(), or use the audio callback, but not both.

You should not call SDL_LockAudio() on the device before clearing the queue; SDL handles locking internally for this function.

This function always succeeds and thus returns void.

Parameters
devThe device ID of which to clear the audio queue.
See also
SDL_QueueAudio
SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize

◆ SDL_CloseAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_CloseAudio ( void  )

This function shuts down audio processing and closes the audio device.

◆ SDL_CloseAudioDevice()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_CloseAudioDevice ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

◆ SDL_ConvertAudio()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_ConvertAudio ( SDL_AudioCVT cvt)

Once you have initialized the cvt structure using SDL_BuildAudioCVT(), created an audio buffer cvt->buf, and filled it with cvt->len bytes of audio data in the source format, this function will convert it in-place to the desired format.

The data conversion may expand the size of the audio data, so the buffer cvt->buf should be allocated after the cvt structure is initialized by SDL_BuildAudioCVT(), and should be cvt->len*cvt->len_mult bytes long.

Returns
0 on success or -1 if cvt->buf is NULL.

◆ SDL_DequeueAudio()

DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_DequeueAudio ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev,
void data,
Uint32  len 
)

Dequeue more audio on non-callback devices.

(If you are looking to queue audio for output on a non-callback playback device, you want SDL_QueueAudio() instead. This will always return 0 if you use it with playback devices.)

SDL offers two ways to retrieve audio from a capture device: you can either supply a callback that SDL triggers with some frequency as the device records more audio data, (push method), or you can supply no callback, and then SDL will expect you to retrieve data at regular intervals (pull method) with this function.

There are no limits on the amount of data you can queue, short of exhaustion of address space. Data from the device will keep queuing as necessary without further intervention from you. This means you will eventually run out of memory if you aren't routinely dequeueing data.

Capture devices will not queue data when paused; if you are expecting to not need captured audio for some length of time, use SDL_PauseAudioDevice() to stop the capture device from queueing more data. This can be useful during, say, level loading times. When unpaused, capture devices will start queueing data from that point, having flushed any capturable data available while paused.

This function is thread-safe, but dequeueing from the same device from two threads at once does not promise which thread will dequeued data first.

You may not dequeue audio from a device that is using an application-supplied callback; doing so returns an error. You have to use the audio callback, or dequeue audio with this function, but not both.

You should not call SDL_LockAudio() on the device before queueing; SDL handles locking internally for this function.

Parameters
devThe device ID from which we will dequeue audio.
dataA pointer into where audio data should be copied.
lenThe number of bytes (not samples!) to which (data) points.
Returns
number of bytes dequeued, which could be less than requested.
See also
SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize
SDL_ClearQueuedAudio

◆ SDL_FreeAudioStream()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_FreeAudioStream ( SDL_AudioStream stream)

◆ SDL_FreeWAV()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_FreeWAV ( Uint8 audio_buf)

This function frees data previously allocated with SDL_LoadWAV_RW()

◆ SDL_GetAudioDeviceName()

DECLSPEC const char* SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDeviceName ( int  index,
int  iscapture 
)

Get the human-readable name of a specific audio device. Must be a value between 0 and (number of audio devices-1). Only valid after a successfully initializing the audio subsystem. The values returned by this function reflect the latest call to SDL_GetNumAudioDevices(); recall that function to redetect available hardware.

The string returned by this function is UTF-8 encoded, read-only, and managed internally. You are not to free it. If you need to keep the string for any length of time, you should make your own copy of it, as it will be invalid next time any of several other SDL functions is called.

◆ SDL_GetAudioDeviceStatus()

DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStatus SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDeviceStatus ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

◆ SDL_GetAudioDriver()

DECLSPEC const char* SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioDriver ( int  index)

◆ SDL_GetAudioStatus()

DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStatus SDLCALL SDL_GetAudioStatus ( void  )

◆ SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver()

DECLSPEC const char* SDLCALL SDL_GetCurrentAudioDriver ( void  )

This function returns the name of the current audio driver, or NULL if no driver has been initialized.

◆ SDL_GetNumAudioDevices()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetNumAudioDevices ( int  iscapture)

Get the number of available devices exposed by the current driver. Only valid after a successfully initializing the audio subsystem. Returns -1 if an explicit list of devices can't be determined; this is not an error. For example, if SDL is set up to talk to a remote audio server, it can't list every one available on the Internet, but it will still allow a specific host to be specified to SDL_OpenAudioDevice().

In many common cases, when this function returns a value <= 0, it can still successfully open the default device (NULL for first argument of SDL_OpenAudioDevice()).

◆ SDL_GetNumAudioDrivers()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_GetNumAudioDrivers ( void  )

◆ SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize()

DECLSPEC Uint32 SDLCALL SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

Get the number of bytes of still-queued audio.

For playback device:

This is the number of bytes that have been queued for playback with SDL_QueueAudio(), but have not yet been sent to the hardware. This number may shrink at any time, so this only informs of pending data.

Once we've sent it to the hardware, this function can not decide the exact byte boundary of what has been played. It's possible that we just gave the hardware several kilobytes right before you called this function, but it hasn't played any of it yet, or maybe half of it, etc.

For capture devices:

This is the number of bytes that have been captured by the device and are waiting for you to dequeue. This number may grow at any time, so this only informs of the lower-bound of available data.

You may not queue audio on a device that is using an application-supplied callback; calling this function on such a device always returns 0. You have to queue audio with SDL_QueueAudio()/SDL_DequeueAudio(), or use the audio callback, but not both.

You should not call SDL_LockAudio() on the device before querying; SDL handles locking internally for this function.

Parameters
devThe device ID of which we will query queued audio size.
Returns
Number of bytes (not samples!) of queued audio.
See also
SDL_QueueAudio
SDL_ClearQueuedAudio

◆ SDL_LoadWAV_RW()

DECLSPEC SDL_AudioSpec* SDLCALL SDL_LoadWAV_RW ( SDL_RWops src,
int  freesrc,
SDL_AudioSpec spec,
Uint8 **  audio_buf,
Uint32 audio_len 
)

Load the audio data of a WAVE file into memory.

Loading a WAVE file requires src, spec, audio_buf and audio_len to be valid pointers. The entire data portion of the file is then loaded into memory and decoded if necessary.

If freesrc is non-zero, the data source gets automatically closed and freed before the function returns.

Supported are RIFF WAVE files with the formats PCM (8, 16, 24, and 32 bits), IEEE Float (32 bits), Microsoft ADPCM and IMA ADPCM (4 bits), and A-law and ยต-law (8 bits). Other formats are currently unsupported and cause an error.

If this function succeeds, the pointer returned by it is equal to spec and the pointer to the audio data allocated by the function is written to audio_buf and its length in bytes to audio_len. The SDL_AudioSpec members freq, channels, and format are set to the values of the audio data in the buffer. The samples member is set to a sane default and all others are set to zero.

It's necessary to use SDL_FreeWAV() to free the audio data returned in audio_buf when it is no longer used.

Because of the underspecification of the Waveform format, there are many problematic files in the wild that cause issues with strict decoders. To provide compatibility with these files, this decoder is lenient in regards to the truncation of the file, the fact chunk, and the size of the RIFF chunk. The hints SDL_HINT_WAVE_RIFF_CHUNK_SIZE, SDL_HINT_WAVE_TRUNCATION, and SDL_HINT_WAVE_FACT_CHUNK can be used to tune the behavior of the loading process.

Any file that is invalid (due to truncation, corruption, or wrong values in the headers), too big, or unsupported causes an error. Additionally, any critical I/O error from the data source will terminate the loading process with an error. The function returns NULL on error and in all cases (with the exception of src being NULL), an appropriate error message will be set.

It is required that the data source supports seeking.

Example:

SDL_LoadWAV_RW(SDL_RWFromFile("sample.wav", "rb"), 1, ...);
Parameters
srcThe data source with the WAVE data
freesrcA integer value that makes the function close the data source if non-zero
specA pointer filled with the audio format of the audio data
audio_bufA pointer filled with the audio data allocated by the function
audio_lenA pointer filled with the length of the audio data buffer in bytes
Returns
NULL on error, or non-NULL on success.

◆ SDL_LockAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_LockAudio ( void  )

◆ SDL_LockAudioDevice()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_LockAudioDevice ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

◆ SDL_MixAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_MixAudio ( Uint8 dst,
const Uint8 src,
Uint32  len,
int  volume 
)

This takes two audio buffers of the playing audio format and mixes them, performing addition, volume adjustment, and overflow clipping. The volume ranges from 0 - 128, and should be set to SDL_MIX_MAXVOLUME for full audio volume. Note this does not change hardware volume. This is provided for convenience – you can mix your own audio data.

◆ SDL_MixAudioFormat()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_MixAudioFormat ( Uint8 dst,
const Uint8 src,
SDL_AudioFormat  format,
Uint32  len,
int  volume 
)

This works like SDL_MixAudio(), but you specify the audio format instead of using the format of audio device 1. Thus it can be used when no audio device is open at all.

◆ SDL_NewAudioStream()

DECLSPEC SDL_AudioStream* SDLCALL SDL_NewAudioStream ( const SDL_AudioFormat  src_format,
const Uint8  src_channels,
const int  src_rate,
const SDL_AudioFormat  dst_format,
const Uint8  dst_channels,
const int  dst_rate 
)

Create a new audio stream

Parameters
src_formatThe format of the source audio
src_channelsThe number of channels of the source audio
src_rateThe sampling rate of the source audio
dst_formatThe format of the desired audio output
dst_channelsThe number of channels of the desired audio output
dst_rateThe sampling rate of the desired audio output
Returns
0 on success, or -1 on error.
See also
SDL_AudioStreamPut
SDL_AudioStreamGet
SDL_AudioStreamAvailable
SDL_AudioStreamFlush
SDL_AudioStreamClear
SDL_FreeAudioStream

◆ SDL_OpenAudio()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_OpenAudio ( SDL_AudioSpec desired,
SDL_AudioSpec obtained 
)

This function opens the audio device with the desired parameters, and returns 0 if successful, placing the actual hardware parameters in the structure pointed to by obtained. If obtained is NULL, the audio data passed to the callback function will be guaranteed to be in the requested format, and will be automatically converted to the hardware audio format if necessary. This function returns -1 if it failed to open the audio device, or couldn't set up the audio thread.

When filling in the desired audio spec structure,

  • desired->freq should be the desired audio frequency in samples-per- second.
  • desired->format should be the desired audio format.
  • desired->samples is the desired size of the audio buffer, in samples. This number should be a power of two, and may be adjusted by the audio driver to a value more suitable for the hardware. Good values seem to range between 512 and 8096 inclusive, depending on the application and CPU speed. Smaller values yield faster response time, but can lead to underflow if the application is doing heavy processing and cannot fill the audio buffer in time. A stereo sample consists of both right and left channels in LR ordering. Note that the number of samples is directly related to time by the following formula:
    ms = (samples*1000)/freq
  • desired->size is the size in bytes of the audio buffer, and is calculated by SDL_OpenAudio().
  • desired->silence is the value used to set the buffer to silence, and is calculated by SDL_OpenAudio().
  • desired->callback should be set to a function that will be called when the audio device is ready for more data. It is passed a pointer to the audio buffer, and the length in bytes of the audio buffer. This function usually runs in a separate thread, and so you should protect data structures that it accesses by calling SDL_LockAudio() and SDL_UnlockAudio() in your code. Alternately, you may pass a NULL pointer here, and call SDL_QueueAudio() with some frequency, to queue more audio samples to be played (or for capture devices, call SDL_DequeueAudio() with some frequency, to obtain audio samples).
  • desired->userdata is passed as the first parameter to your callback function. If you passed a NULL callback, this value is ignored.

The audio device starts out playing silence when it's opened, and should be enabled for playing by calling SDL_PauseAudio(0) when you are ready for your audio callback function to be called. Since the audio driver may modify the requested size of the audio buffer, you should allocate any local mixing buffers after you open the audio device.

◆ SDL_OpenAudioDevice()

DECLSPEC SDL_AudioDeviceID SDLCALL SDL_OpenAudioDevice ( const char *  device,
int  iscapture,
const SDL_AudioSpec desired,
SDL_AudioSpec obtained,
int  allowed_changes 
)

Open a specific audio device. Passing in a device name of NULL requests the most reasonable default (and is equivalent to calling SDL_OpenAudio()).

The device name is a UTF-8 string reported by SDL_GetAudioDeviceName(), but some drivers allow arbitrary and driver-specific strings, such as a hostname/IP address for a remote audio server, or a filename in the diskaudio driver.

Returns
0 on error, a valid device ID that is >= 2 on success.

SDL_OpenAudio(), unlike this function, always acts on device ID 1.

◆ SDL_PauseAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_PauseAudio ( int  pause_on)

◆ SDL_PauseAudioDevice()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_PauseAudioDevice ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev,
int  pause_on 
)

◆ SDL_QueueAudio()

DECLSPEC int SDLCALL SDL_QueueAudio ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev,
const void data,
Uint32  len 
)

Queue more audio on non-callback devices.

(If you are looking to retrieve queued audio from a non-callback capture device, you want SDL_DequeueAudio() instead. This will return -1 to signify an error if you use it with capture devices.)

SDL offers two ways to feed audio to the device: you can either supply a callback that SDL triggers with some frequency to obtain more audio (pull method), or you can supply no callback, and then SDL will expect you to supply data at regular intervals (push method) with this function.

There are no limits on the amount of data you can queue, short of exhaustion of address space. Queued data will drain to the device as necessary without further intervention from you. If the device needs audio but there is not enough queued, it will play silence to make up the difference. This means you will have skips in your audio playback if you aren't routinely queueing sufficient data.

This function copies the supplied data, so you are safe to free it when the function returns. This function is thread-safe, but queueing to the same device from two threads at once does not promise which buffer will be queued first.

You may not queue audio on a device that is using an application-supplied callback; doing so returns an error. You have to use the audio callback or queue audio with this function, but not both.

You should not call SDL_LockAudio() on the device before queueing; SDL handles locking internally for this function.

Parameters
devThe device ID to which we will queue audio.
dataThe data to queue to the device for later playback.
lenThe number of bytes (not samples!) to which (data) points.
Returns
0 on success, or -1 on error.
See also
SDL_GetQueuedAudioSize
SDL_ClearQueuedAudio

◆ SDL_UnlockAudio()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_UnlockAudio ( void  )

◆ SDL_UnlockAudioDevice()

DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_UnlockAudioDevice ( SDL_AudioDeviceID  dev)

◆ void()

typedef void ( SDLCALL SDL_AudioFilter)