NAME

Audio::Mad::Stream - Interface to mad_stream structure

SYPNOSIS

my $stream = new Audio::Mad::Stream;
$stream->buffer($scalar);

my $remain = substr($scalar, $stream->next_frame);
my $position = $stream->this_frame;

$stream->skip($position + 400);
$stream->sync();

unless ($stream->err_ok()) {
	print "error code was: " . $stream->error() . "\n";
}

DESCRIPTION

This package provides an interface to the underlying mad_stream 
structure used in the decoder library.  Almost all of the methods
from the library are implemented,  and work on regualar perl data
types.

METHODS

• new

  Allocates and initializes a new mad_stream structure,  and 
  provides us with a handle to access it.

• buffer(scalar)

  Takes a scalar,  and feeds it's data to the underlying 
  mad_stream_buffer function.  This part of the module isn't 
  so hammered out just yet,  it should work just fine,  but 
  there may be memory leaks / garbage collection issues just 
  yet (although,  I haven't seen anything unusual).

• skip(length)

  Skips 'length' bytes in the input stream.

• sync

  Skips forward to the next MPEG sync word available in the 
  buffer.

• this_frame

  Returns the offset (in bytes) of the current buffer.  You 
  may use this as an index into the scalar that was passed to 
  'buffer'.

• next_frame

  Returns the offset (in bytes) of the next frame in the 
  current buffer.

• error

  Returns a numeric error code indicating the last problem 
  encountered while gobbling up stream.  Error codes 
  correspond to the MAD_ERROR_ constants.

• err_ok

  Returns 1 if the last error is recoverable,  according to the 
  MAD_RECOVERABLE macro.

AUTHOR

Mark McConnell <mischke@cpan.org>