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As discussed on IRC, here is a working defn of a struct for the MPEG thread
to report its status to the outside world. This is useful to allow such
threads as apps/play.c to know what the MPEG thread is doing and respond
accordingly.

It also has a section for c&c functions, but this may be better suited by
using the undocumented(!) IPC style sematics.

/* mpeg_api.h MPEG thread API
   Rockbox
   Lion J Templin
   20020531
   
   This is a struct for use with communications with the MPEG
   thread for control purposes. It is designed to be deployed as
   a global var, accessable by all threads as well as the MPEG
   thread (of course). Threads may access all variables, though
   should be coded to write to only the ones designated as FOREIGN.
   The MPEG thread should only write variables labelled DOMESTIC.

*/

#define MPEG_CMD_NOOP 0
#define MPEG_CMD_PLAY 1
#define MPEG_CMD_STOP 2
#define MPEG_CMD_FFW 3
#define MPEG_CMD_REW 4
#define MPEG_CMD_KILL 5

#define MPEG_STATUS_EMPTY 0
#define MPEG_STATUS_STOP 1
#define MPEG_STATUS_PLAY 2
#define MPEG_STATUS_ERR 3

struct mpegapi {

        unsigned int cmd;
                /* FOREIGN - Deliver Command to MPEG thread
                   policy UNIQUE INT
                   MPEG_CMD_NOOP - no command (no effect)
                   MPEG_CMD_PLAY - PLAY CURRENT STREAM FROM CURRENT POS
                        (if no stream, set MPEG_STATUS_EMPTY, else
                         (re)start play and set MPEG_STATUS_PLAY)
                   MPEG_CMD_STOP - STOP PLAY
                           (do not unload stream or reset vars, set
                            MPEG_STATUS_STOP)
                   MPEG_CMD_FFW - JUMP STREAM FORWARD n DISTANCE
                   MPEG_CMD_REW - JUMP STREAM BACKWARD n DISTANCE
                           (if MPEG_STATUS_PLAY jump only n, cmd will
                            still be set to MPEG_CMD_{FFW,REV} if more
                            jumps are required, other thread will set
                            MPEG_CMD_PLAY when jumps need to stop)
                           (if MPEG_STATUS_STOP, jump filepos without playing)
                        (if MPEG_STATUS_EMPTY, do nothing)
                   MPEG_CMD_KILL - KILL THE MPEG THREAD
                           (reset all vars, empty MPEG buffer, set
                            MPEG_STATUS_EMPTY)
                */
        int status;
                /* DOMESTIC - Status of the MPEG thread
                   policy UNIQUE INT
                   MPEG_STATUS_EMPTY - no stream loaded
                   MPEG_STATUS_STOP - stream loaded, not playing
                   MPEG_STATUS_PLAY - stream loaded, playing
                   MPEG_STATUS_ERR - problem with thread
                   any number >= 32 is an error code, the lower status
                   bits should be set to MPEG_STAUS_ERR
                   
                   eg: status = MPEG_STATUS_ERR + MPEG_ERROR_FOO;
                       where MPEG_ERROR_FOO >= 16
                */
        int filelen;
                /* DOMESTIC - File length of the currently loaded stream
                   0 if no stream loaded
                */
        int filepos;
                /* DOMESTIC - Current file position
                   -1 if no stream loaded
                */
        char* filename;
                /* DOMESTIC - Currently loaded filename
                   Should be full path, NULL temrinated standard string,
                   NULL if no file loaded.
                */
        unsigned int mpeg_bitrate;
                /* DOMESTIC - Currently loaded MPEG bitrate
                   0 if no file
                */
        unsigned int mpeg_type;
                /* DOMESTIC - Describes Currently loaded MPEG
                   policy BITMASK
                   Bit Off/On
                   0 single bitrate / VBR
                   1 stereo / mono
                   2 joint stereo / discrete stereo
                   3 OK / error

                   0 if no file (though not indicative of no file)
                */
}

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