DVD-Audio Library¶

DVD-Audio discs were a short-lived format for distributing lossless, high-definition audio on DVD media. This is a library designed to extract the contents of those discs as simply and painlessly as possible using either the included example tools or tools of your own that are linked against this library. Such discs can be identified by mounting them and looking for contents in the AUDIO_TS directory. They typically contain one or more .AOB files and several .IFO files.

This library does not work on DVD-Video discs, at all; the contents of VIDEO_TS are completely unsupported.

DVD-Audio Disc Layout¶

Unlike Compact Disc audio which is a single stream of uniform data, a single DVD-Audio disc may contain multiple title sets, where each title set may contain multiple titles, and each title may contain multiple tracks. The AUDIO_TS.IFO file contains information about all the title sets (though in practice, we’re only ever interested in the first title set). The ATS_01_0.IFO file contains information about all the titles in title set 01 and includes track length and offset data. Finally, the ATS_01_X.AOB files contain all the audio data itself. These .AOB files are actually a continuous stream of 2048 byte sectors that are typically broken up into files about 1 gigabyte each.

Audio data is stored either as uncompressed PCM or in Meridian Lossless Packing format. The stream attributes such as sample rate and bits-per-sample often differ from title to title on the same disc (title 1 may contain a 5.1 channel stream while title 2 contains a 2 channel stream, for instance). More rarely, tracks within the same title may have different stream attributes.

Knowing these basics makes it easier to understand why this library is organized the way it is.

Installation¶

This library includes all the dependencies it needs. To install it, edit the Makefile if desired and update the directory where the static and dynamic libraries will be installed (LIB_DIR), where its single dvd-audio.h include file will be installed (INCLUDE_DIR), where the reference binaries will be install (BIN_DIR) and where pkg-config’s metadata will be installed (PKG_CONFIG_DIR).

Once satisfied, simply run make and make install.

Linking¶

The easiest way to link one’s own program against this library is to use pkg-config to indicate what all the flags should be, like:

cc -o myprogram myprogram.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libdvd-audio`

or, set the library flags manually:

cc -o myprogram myprogram.c -ldvd-audio -lm

Note that the math library is also required, which should come standard.

Reference¶

All of the following types and functions are defined in the C header:

#include <dvd-audio.h>

Macros¶

LIBDVDAUDIO_MAJOR_VERSION¶: the library’s major version as an integer

LIBDVDAUDIO_MINOR_VERSION¶: the library’s minor version as an integer

LIBDVDAUDIO_RELEASE_VERSION¶: the library’s release version as an integer

LIBDVDAUDIO_VERSION_STRING¶: the library’s version as a string

PTS_PER_SECOND¶: 90000

Objects¶

All of the structures used by this library are opaque and given typedefs to shorten their names.

type DVDA¶: A structure that references the entire disc.

type DVDA_Titleset¶: A structure that references a given title set on the disc.

type DVDA_Title¶: A structure that references a given title in the title set.

type DVDA_Track¶: A structure that references a given track in the title.

type DVDA_Track_Reader¶: A file-like handle for reading data from a given track.

DVDA Functions¶

DVDA *dvda_open(const char *audio_ts_path, const char *device)¶

Given a path to the disc’s AUDIO_TS directory (such as "/media/cdrom/AUDIO_TS") and optional CD-ROM device where the disc has been mounted from (such as "/dev/cdrom"), returns a DVDA pointer or NULL if some error occurs opening the disc.

The DVDA must be freed with dvda_close() when no longer needed.

The device argument is for performing decryption of the disc’s contents. Encrypted discs contain a DVDAUDIO.MKB file in the AUDIO_TS directory. If no DVDAUDIO.MKB is found or the device argument is NULL, no decryption will be performed.

void dvda_close(DVDA *dvda)¶: Closes the DVDA and deallocates any memory it may have.

unsigned dvda_titleset_count(const DVDA *dvda)¶: Returns the number of title sets on the disc.

Titleset Functions¶

DVDA_Titleset *dvda_open_titleset(DVDA *dvda, unsigned titleset)¶

Given a title set number (starting from 1) returns a DVDA_Titleset or NULL if the disc’s ATS_XX_0.IFO file is missing or invalid.

The DVDA_Titleset should be closed with dvda_close_titleset() when no longer needed.

void dvda_close_titleset(DVDA_Titleset *titleset)¶: Closes the DVDA_Titleset and deallocates any memory it may have.

unsigned dvda_titleset_number(const DVDA_Titleset *titleset)¶: Returns the title set’s number.

unsigned dvda_title_count(const DVDA_Titleset *titleset)¶: Returns the number of titles in the title set.

Title Functions¶

DVDA_Title *dvda_open_title(DVDA_Titleset *titleset, unsigned title)¶

Given a title number (starting from 1) returns a DVDA_Title or NULL if the title is not found in the title set.

The DVDA_Title should be closed with dvda_close_title() when no longer needed.

void dvda_close_title(DVDA_Title *title)¶: Closes the DVDA_Title and deallocates any memory it may have.

unsigned dvda_title_number(const DVDA_Title *title)¶: Returns the title’s number.

unsigned dvda_track_count(const DVDA_Title *title)¶: Returns the number of tracks in the title.

unsigned dvda_title_pts_length(const DVDA_Title *title)¶: Returns the length of title in PTS ticks.

Track Functions¶

DVDA_Track *dvda_open_track(DVDA_title *Title, unsigned track)¶

Given a track number (starting from 1) returns a DVDA_Track or NULL if the track is not found in the title.

The DVDA_Track should be closed with dvda_close_track() when no longer needed.

void dvda_close_track(DVDA_Track *track)¶: Closes the DVDA_Track and deallocates any memory it may have.

unsigned dvda_track_number(const DVDA_Track *track)¶: Returns the track’s number.

unsigned dvda_track_pts_index(const DVDA_Track *track)¶: Returns the starting point of the track in the stream in PTS ticks.

unsigned dvda_track_pts_length(const DVDA_Track *track)¶: Returns the length of the track in PTS ticks.

unsigned dvda_track_first_sector(const DVDA_Track *track)¶: Returns the track’s first sector in the stream of AOB files.

unsigned dvda_track_last_sector(const DVDA_Track *track)¶: Returns the track’s last sector in the stream of AOB files.

Track Reader Functions¶

DVDA_Track_Reader *dvda_open_track_reader(DVDA_Track *track)¶

Returns a DVDA_Track_Reader for reading audio data from the given track, or NULL if some error occurs opening the track for reading.

The DVDA_Track_Reader should be closed with dvda_close_track_reader() when no longer needed.

void dvda_close_track_reader(DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶: Closes the DVDA_Track_Reader along with any file handles or memory it may have.

dvda_codec_t dvda_codec(const DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶: Returns the reader’s codec, such as DVDA_PCM or DVDA_MLP. This is purely for informative purposes.

unsigned dvda_bits_per_sample(const DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶: Returns the reader’s bits-per-sample - either 24 or 16.

unsigned dvda_sample_rate(const DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶: Returns the reader’s sample rate, in Hz.

unsigned dvda_channel_count(const DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶: Returns the reader’s number of channels - often 2 or 6.

unsigned dvda_riff_wave_channel_mask(const DVDA_Track_Reader *reader)¶

Returns the reader’s channel mask as a 32-bit value. Each set bit indicates the presence of the given channel:

channel	bit
front left	`0x001`
front right	`0x002`
front center	`0x004`
LFE	`0x008`
back left	`0x010`
back right	`0x020`
back center	`0x100`

unsigned dvda_read(DVDA_Track_Reader *reader, unsigned pcm_frames, int buffer[])¶: Given a number of PCM frames and a buffer which contains at least:

dvda_channel_count(reader) * pcm_frames

integers, populates that buffer with as many signed integer samples as possible and interleaved on a per-channel basis, like:

{left[0], right[0], left[1], right[1], ..., left[n], right[n]}

in RIFF WAVE channel order.

Returns the number of PCM frames actually read, which may be less than the number requested at the end of the stream.