*/
/**
- * Callback structure provided by vorbis/speex audio format handlers.
+ * Callback structure provided by audio format handlers.
*
- * Both audio formats utilize the ogg container format. Meta info about
- * the audio file is contained in the first three ogg packets.
+ * All audio formats which utilize the ogg container format define a callback
+ * function whose purpose is to extract the meta information about the audio
+ * file from the first few ogg packets of the bitstream.
*/
struct ogg_afh_callback_info {
/**
- * ogg_get_file_info() calls this function for each of the three
- * header packets. If this callback returns a negative value, the
- * audio file is considered invalid and the chunk table is not
- * created. If it returns zero, the end of the header has been
- * reached and no further ogg packets should be processed.
- */
+ * ogg_get_file_info() calls this function for the first three ogg
+ * packets, or until the callback returns a non-positive value. If it
+ * returns negative, the audio file was not recognized by the audio
+ * format handler. If it returns zero, the audio file is considered
+ * valid, and no further processing by the callback is needed. In this
+ * case the header chunk, i.e. chunk number zero, is defined as the
+ * concatenation of all packets that have been processed by the
+ * callback.
+ */
int (*packet_callback)(ogg_packet *packet, int packet_num,
int serial, struct afh_info *afhi, void *private_data);
- /** Vorbis/speex specific data. */
+ /** Data specific to the audio format handler. */
void *private_data;
};