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>SDL_ConvertAudio</H1
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>SDL_ConvertAudio&nbsp;--&nbsp;Convert audio data to a desired audio format.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"</PRE
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><CODE
><CODE
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>int <B
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>SDL_ConvertAudio</B
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>(SDL_AudioCVT *cvt);</CODE
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>Description</H2
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><TT
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>SDL_ConvertAudio</TT
> takes one parameter, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>cvt</I
></TT
>, which was previously initilized. Initilizing a <A
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>SDL_AudioCVT</SPAN
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> is a two step process. First of all, the structure must be passed to <A
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><TT
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>SDL_BuildAudioCVT</TT
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> along with source and destination format parameters. Secondly, the <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>buf</I
></TT
> and <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>len</I
></TT
> fields must be setup. <SPAN
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>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>buf</I
></TT
> should point to the audio data and <SPAN
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>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>len</I
></TT
> should be set to the length of the audio data in bytes. Remember, the length of the buffer pointed to by <TT
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><I
>buf</I
></TT
> show be <TT
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><I
>len</I
></TT
>*<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>len_mult</I
></TT
> bytes in length.</P
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>Once the <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>SDL_AudioCVT</SPAN
>structure is initilized then we can pass it to <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_ConvertAudio</TT
>, which will convert the audio data pointer to by <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>buf</I
></TT
>. If <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_ConvertAudio</TT
> returned <SPAN
CLASS="RETURNVALUE"
>0</SPAN
> then the conversion was completed successfully, otherwise <SPAN
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>-1</SPAN
> is returned.</P
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>If the conversion completed successfully then the converted audio data can be read from <SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
CLASS="STRUCTFIELD"
><I
>buf</I
></TT
>. The amount of valid, converted, audio data in the buffer is equal to <SPAN
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>cvt</SPAN
>-&#62;<TT
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><I
>len</I
></TT
>*<TT
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><I
>cvt</I
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>-&#62;<SPAN
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>len_ratio</SPAN
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>/* Converting some WAV data to hardware format */
void my_audio_callback(void *userdata, Uint8 *stream, int len);

SDL_AudioSpec *desired, *obtained;
SDL_AudioSpec wav_spec;
SDL_AudioCVT  wav_cvt;
Uint32 wav_len;
Uint8 *wav_buf;
int ret;

/* Allocated audio specs */
desired = malloc(sizeof(SDL_AudioSpec));
obtained = malloc(sizeof(SDL_AudioSpec));

/* Set desired format */
desired-&#62;freq=22050;
desired-&#62;format=AUDIO_S16LSB;
desired-&#62;samples=8192;
desired-&#62;callback=my_audio_callback;
desired-&#62;userdata=NULL;

/* Open the audio device */
if ( SDL_OpenAudio(desired, obtained) &#60; 0 ){
  fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't open audio: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
  exit(-1);
}

free(desired);

/* Load the test.wav */
if( SDL_LoadWAV("test.wav", &#38;wav_spec, &#38;wav_buf, &#38;wav_len) == NULL ){
  fprintf(stderr, "Could not open test.wav: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
  SDL_CloseAudio();
  free(obtained);
  exit(-1);
}

/* Build AudioCVT */
ret = SDL_BuildAudioCVT(&#38;wav_cvt,
                        wav_spec.format, wav_spec.channels, wav_spec.freq,
                        obtained-&#62;format, obtained-&#62;channels, obtained-&#62;freq);

/* Check that the convert was built */
if(ret==-1){
  fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't build converter!\n");
  SDL_CloseAudio();
  free(obtained);
  SDL_FreeWAV(wav_buf);
}

/* Setup for conversion */
wav_cvt.buf = malloc(wav_len * wav_cvt.len_mult);
wav_cvt.len = wav_len;
memcpy(wav_cvt.buf, wav_buf, wav_len);

/* We can delete to original WAV data now */
SDL_FreeWAV(wav_buf);

/* And now we're ready to convert */
SDL_ConvertAudio(&#38;wav_cvt);

/* do whatever */
.
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