Question

I work on custom voip application. It relies in audio input/output on CoreAudio.
I discovered a problem – when application calls AudioOutputUnitStart – it freezes for a few seconds.

    OSStatus status;

InitializeAudioSession();
AudioComponentDescription desc;
desc.componentType = kAudioUnitType_Output;
desc.componentSubType = kAudioUnitSubType_RemoteIO;
desc.componentManufacturer = kAudioUnitManufacturer_Apple;
desc.componentFlags = 0;
desc.componentFlagsMask = 0;
mVoiceUnitComponent = AudioComponentFindNext(NULL, &desc);

status = AudioComponentInstanceNew(mVoiceUnitComponent, &mVoiceUnit);
UInt32 enable = 1;
AudioUnitElement inputBus = 1, outputBus = 0;
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioOutputUnitProperty_EnableIO, 
                                                            kAudioUnitScope_Input, inputBus, 
                                                            &enable, sizeof(enable));
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioOutputUnitProperty_EnableIO, kAudioUnitScope_Output,
                                                            outputBus, &enable, sizeof(enable));

memset(&mStreamDesc, 0, sizeof(mStreamDesc));
mStreamDesc.mSampleRate = SPK_SAMPLE_RATE;
mStreamDesc.mFormatID = kAudioFormatLinearPCM;
mStreamDesc.mFormatFlags = kAudioFormatFlagsCanonical;
mStreamDesc.mBitsPerChannel = 16;
mStreamDesc.mChannelsPerFrame = 1;
mStreamDesc.mBytesPerFrame = 2;
mStreamDesc.mFramesPerPacket = 1;
mStreamDesc.mBytesPerPacket = 2;
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat, 
                                                            kAudioUnitScope_Output, 
                                                            inputBus, &mStreamDesc, sizeof(mStreamDesc));
StartAudioSession();

status = AudioUnitInitialize(mVoiceUnit);
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioUnitProperty_StreamFormat, 
                                                            kAudioUnitScope_Input, 
                                                            outputBus, &mStreamDesc, sizeof(mStreamDesc));


AURenderCallbackStruct outputCallback;
outputCallback.inputProc = IOSAudio::OutputRenderCallback;
outputCallback.inputProcRefCon = this;
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioUnitProperty_SetRenderCallback,
                                                            kAudioUnitScope_Input, outputBus, 
                                                            &outputCallback, sizeof(outputCallback));

AURenderCallbackStruct inputCallback;
inputCallback.inputProc = IOSAudio::InputRenderCallback;
inputCallback.inputProcRefCon = this;
status = AudioUnitSetProperty(mVoiceUnit, kAudioOutputUnitProperty_SetInputCallback, 
                                                            kAudioUnitScope_Global, inputBus, 
                                                            &inputCallback, sizeof(inputCallback));


status = AudioOutputUnitStart(mVoiceUnit);

mActive = true;

The SPK_SAMPLE_RATE is 8000 or 32000 – I tested both of them.

May anyone give me advice?

Answer 1

I made a little investigation.
Looks I was wrong – there is only simulator’s issue.
I did not find any cause of this.
So I add workaround – open audio in worker thread.