Reggae tutorial: Saving audio in user selected format

Grzegorz Kraszewski

Introduction

Except of automatic media decoding, Reggae has also a feature on automatic encoding. There is one fundamental difference between these two however. In case of decoding, a format of decoded media, codec parameters, stream parameters, metadata, all this comes from the decoded datastream. When media are encoded, format, codec parameters and metadata have to be set by application.

Usually an application wants to offer all available formats to user. It means that application author has to maintain GUI for all codecs and their parameters. Also such a GUI would have to be updated with every new released codec. Reggae changes this and makes application programmer's life easier.