AVCapture appendSampleBuffer

Question

I am going insane with this one - have looked everywhere and tried anything and everything I can thinks of.

Am making an iPhone app that uses AVFoundation - specifically

Answer 1

You need AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor, here is the code to create it :

    // Create dictionary for pixel buffer adaptor
NSDictionary *bufferAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA], kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey, nil];

// Create pixel buffer adaptor
m_pixelsBufferAdaptor = [[AVAssetWriterInputPixelBufferAdaptor alloc] initWithAssetWriterInput:assetWriterInput sourcePixelBufferAttributes:bufferAttributes];

And the code to use it :

// If ready to have more media data
if (m_pixelsBufferAdaptor.assetWriterInput.readyForMoreMediaData) {
    // Create a pixel buffer
    CVPixelBufferRef pixelsBuffer = NULL;
    CVPixelBufferPoolCreatePixelBuffer(NULL, m_pixelsBufferAdaptor.pixelBufferPool, &pixelsBuffer);

    // Lock pixel buffer address
    CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(pixelsBuffer, 0);

    // Create your function to set your pixels data in the buffer (in your case, fill with your finalImage data)
    [self yourFunctionToPutDataInPixelBuffer:CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddress(pixelsBuffer)];

    // Unlock pixel buffer address
    CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress(pixelsBuffer, 0);

    // Append pixel buffer (calculate currentFrameTime with your needing, the most simplest way is to have a frame time starting at 0 and increment each time you write a frame with the time of a frame (inverse of your framerate))
    [m_pixelsBufferAdaptor appendPixelBuffer:pixelsBuffer withPresentationTime:currentFrameTime];

    // Release pixel buffer
    CVPixelBufferRelease(pixelsBuffer);
}

And don't forget to release your pixelsBufferAdaptor.