Can anybody help me in recording iPhone output sound through Audio Unit

Question

this is my code : i use this code to record the iPhone output audio by using Audio Unit then saving the output in output.caf but the output.caf file is empty any body have

Answer 1

In initializaeOutputUnit you only created your audio file:

OSStatus setupErr = ExtAudioFileCreateWithURL(destinationURL, kAudioFileWAVEType, &audioFormat, NULL, kAudioFileFlags_EraseFile, &effectState.audioFileRef);

by passing 0 (frames) and NULL (audiobuffer) is just for init internal buffers:

setupErr =  ExtAudioFileWriteAsync(effectState.audioFileRef, 0, NULL);

That's what's going wrong in recordingCallback:

1) ioActionFlags are always 0 and inBusNumber are always 1, because thats how you setup your callback (kInputBus = 1):

if (*ioActionFlags == kAudioUnitRenderAction_PostRender&&inBusNumber==0)

so just remove the if statement.

2) From AudioUnitRender you will receive -50 error, which is defined in CoreAudioTypes.h as an kAudio_ParamError error. This happens by bufferList is not defined and NULL!

 OSStatus status; 
 status = AudioUnitRender(THIS->mAudioUnit,     
                          ioActionFlags, 
                          inTimeStamp, 
                          kInputBus, 
                          inNumberFrames, 
                          &bufferList);

 if (noErr != status) {
      printf("AudioUnitRender error: %ld", status);   
      return noErr; 
 }

You just need to define an valid AudioBuffer and pass it to AudioUnitRender, this is my working RenderCallback:

  static OSStatus recordingCallback       (void *                      inRefCon,
                                           AudioUnitRenderActionFlags *      ioActionFlags,
                                           const AudioTimeStamp *            inTimeStamp,
                                           UInt32                            inBusNumber,
                                           UInt32                            inNumberFrames,
                                           AudioBufferList *                 ioData)  {
      double timeInSeconds = inTimeStamp->mSampleTime / kSampleRate;
      printf("\n%fs inBusNumber: %lu inNumberFrames: %lu ", timeInSeconds, inBusNumber, inNumberFrames);
      //printAudioUnitRenderActionFlags(ioActionFlags);

      AudioBufferList bufferList;

      SInt16 samples[inNumberFrames]; // A large enough size to not have to worry about buffer overrun
      memset (&samples, 0, sizeof (samples));

      bufferList.mNumberBuffers = 1;
      bufferList.mBuffers[0].mData = samples;
      bufferList.mBuffers[0].mNumberChannels = 1;
      bufferList.mBuffers[0].mDataByteSize = inNumberFrames*sizeof(SInt16);

      ViewController* THIS = THIS = (__bridge ViewController *)inRefCon;

      OSStatus status;
      status = AudioUnitRender(THIS->mAudioUnit,     
                               ioActionFlags, 
                               inTimeStamp, 
                               kInputBus, 
                               inNumberFrames, 
                               &bufferList);

      if (noErr != status) {

          printf("AudioUnitRender error: %ld", status); 
          return noErr;
      }

      // Now, we have the samples we just read sitting in buffers in bufferList
      ExtAudioFileWriteAsync(THIS->mAudioFileRef, inNumberFrames, &bufferList);

      return noErr;      
 }

In stopRecord you should close the audio file with ExtAudioFileDispose:

  - (void)stopRecording:(NSTimer*)theTimer {
      printf("\nstopRecording\n");
      AudioOutputUnitStop(mAudioUnit);
      AudioUnitUninitialize(mAudioUnit);

      OSStatus status = ExtAudioFileDispose(mAudioFileRef);
      printf("OSStatus(ExtAudioFileDispose): %ld\n", status); 
 }

Full source code: http://pastebin.com/92Fyjaye