Routine

AFILE *AFopnWrite (const char Fname[], int Ftype, int Dtype, long int Nchan, double Sfreq, FILE *fpinfo)

Purpose

Open an audio file for writing

Description

This routine opens an audio file for writing. This routine sets up the audio file parameters to write data of the given format to the audio file. After writing data to the file, the routine AFclose should be called to update the file header information and close the file.

By default, information consisting of the date and the program creating the file (see UTsetProg) is written to the audio file header or trailer. The routine AFsetInfo can be called before calling this routine to specify additional information to be written to the file.

This routine can write AU audio files, AIFF-C files, WAVE files, and headerless audio files.

AU audio file:
8-bit mu-law, 8-bit A-law, 8/16/24/32-bit integer, and 32/64-bit IEEE floating-point data formats are supported. WAVE file:
8-bit mu-law, 8-bit A-law, offset-binary 8-bit integer, 16/24/32-bit integer, and 32/64-bit IEEE floating-point, data formats are supported. AIFF sound file:
8/16/24/32-bit integer data formats are supported. AIFF-C sound file:
8-bit mu-law, 8-bit A-law, 8/16/24/32-bit integer, and 32/64-bit IEEE floating-point data formats are supported. Headerless file:
8-bit mu-law, 8-bit A-law, offset-binary 8-bit integer, 8/16/24/32-bit integer, 32/64-bit floating-point, and text data formats are supported. A text format file has the data in character form, one value to a line.

For the fixed point file data representations, input values in the range [-1, +1) ([-.5, +0.5) for 8-bit data) will be converted without clipping. The scaling factor shown below is applied to the data before they are written to the file.

   data format   scaling factor   file data values


  8-bit mu-law    32,768         [-32,124, +32,124]


  8-bit A-law     32,768         [-32,256, +32,256]


  8-bit integer   256            [-128, 127]


  16-bit integer  32,768         [-32,768, +32,767]


  24-bit integer  8,388,608      [-8,388,608, +8,388,607]


  32-bit integer  2,147,483,648  [-2,147,483,648, 2,147,483,647]

Parameters

<- AFILE *AFopnWrite
Audio file pointer for the audio file
-> const char Fname[]
Character string specifying the file name. The file name "-" means standard output.
-> int Ftype
Output file type code

  FTW_AU        = 1,      AU audio file


  FTW_WAVE      = 2,      WAVE file (auto extensible format)


  FTW_WAVE_NOEX = 2 + 16, WAVE file (no extensible format)


  FTW_AIFF_C    = 3,      AIFF-C sound file


  FTW_NH_EB     = 4 +  0, Headerless file (big-endian byte order)


  FTW_NH_EL     = 4 + 16, Headerless file (little-endian byte order)


  FTW_NH_NATIVE = 4 + 32, Headerless file (native byte order)


  FTW_NH_SWAP   = 4 + 48, Headerless file (byte-swapped byte order)


  FTW_AIFF      = 5,      AIFF sound file

-> int Dformat
Data format code

  FD_MULAW8  = 1,  mu-law 8-bit data


  FD_ALAW8   = 2,  A-law 8-bit data


  FD_UINT8   = 3,  offset-binary 8-bit integer data


  FD_INT8    = 4,  two's-complement 8-bit integer data


  FD_INT16   = 5,  two's-complement 16-bit integer data


  FD_INT24   = 6,  two's-complement 24-bit integer data


  FD_INT32   = 7,  two's-complement 32-bit integer data


  FD_FLOAT32 = 8,  32-bit floating-point data


  FD_FLOAT64 = 9,  64-bit floating-point data


  FD_TEXT    = 10,  text data

-> long int Nchan
Number of channels
-> double Sfreq
Sampling frequency
-> FILE *fpinfo
File pointer for printing audio file information. If fpinfo is not NULL, information about the audio file is printed on the stream selected by fpinfo.

Author / revision

P. Kabal / Revision 1.7 2006/06/06

See Also

AFclose, AFdWriteData, AFfWriteData, AFsetHinfo, AFsetSpeaker