Playing Raw pcm audio data coming from NSStream

Question

I am trying to play the pcm data from NSInputStream. Can anyone provide me the right approach or code to do so.

I got the Audio in StreamHasData event with following

Answer 1

Apple has an example,doing same kind of stuff:-

void* MyGetOpenALAudioData(CFURLRef inFileURL, ALsizei *outDataSize, ALenum *outDataFormat, ALsizei*    outSampleRate)
{
OSStatus                        err = noErr;    
SInt64                          theFileLengthInFrames = 0;
AudioStreamBasicDescription     theFileFormat;
UInt32                          thePropertySize = sizeof(theFileFormat);
ExtAudioFileRef                 extRef = NULL;
void*                           theData = NULL;
AudioStreamBasicDescription     theOutputFormat;

// Open a file with ExtAudioFileOpen()
err = ExtAudioFileOpenURL(inFileURL, &extRef);
if(err) { printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData: ExtAudioFileOpenURL FAILED, Error = %ld\n", err); goto Exit; }

// Get the audio data format
err = ExtAudioFileGetProperty(extRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_FileDataFormat, &thePropertySize, &theFileFormat);
if(err) { printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData: ExtAudioFileGetProperty(kExtAudioFileProperty_FileDataFormat) FAILED, Error = %ld\n", err); goto Exit; }
if (theFileFormat.mChannelsPerFrame > 2)  { printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData - Unsupported Format, channel count is greater than stereo\n"); goto Exit;}

// Set the client format to 16 bit signed integer (native-endian) data
// Maintain the channel count and sample rate of the original source format
theOutputFormat.mSampleRate = theFileFormat.mSampleRate;
theOutputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame = theFileFormat.mChannelsPerFrame;

theOutputFormat.mFormatID = kAudioFormatLinearPCM;
theOutputFormat.mBytesPerPacket = 2 * theOutputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame;
theOutputFormat.mFramesPerPacket = 1;
theOutputFormat.mBytesPerFrame = 2 * theOutputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame;
theOutputFormat.mBitsPerChannel = 16;
theOutputFormat.mFormatFlags = kAudioFormatFlagsNativeEndian | kAudioFormatFlagIsPacked | kAudioFormatFlagIsSignedInteger;

// Set the desired client (output) data format
err = ExtAudioFileSetProperty(extRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_ClientDataFormat, sizeof(theOutputFormat), &theOutputFormat);
if(err) { printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData: ExtAudioFileSetProperty(kExtAudioFileProperty_ClientDataFormat) FAILED, Error = %ld\n", err); goto Exit; }

// Get the total frame count
thePropertySize = sizeof(theFileLengthInFrames);
err = ExtAudioFileGetProperty(extRef, kExtAudioFileProperty_FileLengthFrames, &thePropertySize, &theFileLengthInFrames);
if(err) { printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData: ExtAudioFileGetProperty(kExtAudioFileProperty_FileLengthFrames) FAILED, Error = %ld\n", err); goto Exit; }

// Read all the data into memory
UInt32 theFramesToRead = (UInt32)theFileLengthInFrames;     
UInt32 dataSize = theFramesToRead * theOutputFormat.mBytesPerFrame;;
theData = malloc(dataSize);
if (theData)
{
    AudioBufferList     theDataBuffer;
    theDataBuffer.mNumberBuffers = 1;
    theDataBuffer.mBuffers[0].mDataByteSize = dataSize;
    theDataBuffer.mBuffers[0].mNumberChannels = theOutputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame;
    theDataBuffer.mBuffers[0].mData = theData;

    // Read the data into an AudioBufferList
    err = ExtAudioFileRead(extRef, &theFramesToRead, &theDataBuffer);
    if(err == noErr)
    {
        // success
        *outDataSize = (ALsizei)dataSize;
        *outDataFormat = (theOutputFormat.mChannelsPerFrame > 1) ? AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 : AL_FORMAT_MONO16;
        *outSampleRate = (ALsizei)theOutputFormat.mSampleRate;
    }
    else 
    { 
        // failure
        free (theData);
        theData = NULL; // make sure to return NULL
        printf("MyGetOpenALAudioData: ExtAudioFileRead FAILED, Error = %ld\n", err); goto Exit;
    }   
}

Exit:
// Dispose the ExtAudioFileRef, it is no longer needed
if (extRef) ExtAudioFileDispose(extRef);
return theData;
}

Find Sample Code Here,Hope this helps.