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Anonymous
September 7, 2013
Question

Sound class conflicting with Native Mic Recording iOS

  • September 7, 2013
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Hi,

I found out that Adobe Air Sound playing class is conflicting with microphone recording using native extension. The sound classs overrides the Audio Session used in recording extension written in ObjC (ios platform). By default, the extension set audio session to PlayAndRecord.

However after a sound play in AS3, new Sound(), sound.play(); the mic will stop getting any input.

If sound is played via a native extension using AVAudioPlayer, mic and sound play will work perfectly.

We have tried fixes by setting different modes in Adobe Air (after and before a sound play)

SoundMixer.audioPlaybackMode  =  AudioPlaybackMode.AMBIENT;

SoundMixer.audioPlaybackMode  =  AudioPlaybackMode.MEDIA;

SoundMixer.audioPlaybackMode  =  AudioPlaybackMode.VOICE;

Adobe needs to provide all the Audio Session available in iOS platform, eg. PlayAndRecord.

This is crucial for mic input Apps, we are working a lot with audio fingerprinting, please add this audio session.

I have submitted a bug report for this. https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3628271

Actual Result:

After a sound play through AS3, native mic will stop working as audio session seems to be conflicting each other

Expected Result:

Both mic and sound playing work perfectly

Any Workarounds:

Play via a native extension

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5 replies

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aparimitm25890380
Participant
October 1, 2015

hi

in the project you shared the problem begins when the videoDisplay class starts interacting with your ANE.

it would be helpful to understand where the things start to go wrong.

thanks

Adobe AIR Team

transistorradio
transistorradio
Participating Frequently
October 1, 2015

While we extract a test project we can give you this piece of code: it gave us the same problems with video/audio playing when called from the ANE (but not with a iOS native application). It has two methods: one starts the audio session and the other one closes it:

#import "SONTestAudioSession.h"

#import "OEAudioUtilities.h"

#import "OELogging.h"

#import "OENotification.h"

static const NSInteger kMaxRetries = 3;

static const float retryInterval = 0.5;

@interface SONTestAudioSession()

{

    NSInteger retries;

}

@end

@implementation SONTestAudioSession

- (void) start

{

    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);

    retries = 0;

    AVAudioSession *sessionInstance = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];

    NSError *error = nil;

    [sessionInstance setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers | AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth | AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDefaultToSpeaker error:&error]; // We are just defaulting to mixing.

    if(error.code != noErr) {

        ReportError((OSStatus)error.code, @"Error: Could not activate the av session audio category.");

    }

}

- (void) stop

{

    NSLog(@"%s", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);

    NSError *error = nil;

    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:NO error:&error];

    if(error.code != noErr) {

        NSLog(@"%s Failed to set inactive. Retry...", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);

        if (retries < kMaxRetries) {

            dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(retryInterval * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{

                retries++;

                [self stop]; // call self again, until it reaches max retries

            });

        } else {

            ReportError((OSStatus)error.code, @"Error: Could not set session inactive."); // failed to de-activate the audio session

        }

    } else {

        NSLog(@"%s Session inactive", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);

    }

    [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setMode:AVAudioSessionModeDefault error:&error];

}

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aparimitm25890380
Participant
November 23, 2015

you are using [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:NO error:nil]

this is causing an exception from AVAudioSession

"Deactivating an audio session that has running I/O. All I/O should be stopped or paused prior to deactivating the audio session."

this is resulting in all audio/video session being closed .

the problem gets solved if the you don't STOP the AVAudioSession.

So please try without [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:NO error:nil]

Also AS3 provides Microphone class for recording you may also try that.

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aparimitm25890380
Participant
October 1, 2015

Hi,

could you please share your ANE source code with me i need it to debug your sample project.

Thanks

Adobe Air Team

transistorradio
transistorradio
Participating Frequently
October 1, 2015

Hmmm. I'm not sure. We'll try extracting a functional piece of the whole project so we can share it with you.

Do you think you can give us an estimate of when could this be fixed?

transistorradio
transistorradio
Participating Frequently
May 15, 2015

I seem to be finding the same issue, (or maybe somewhat related) in AIR 17.

My app plays video and stops, then opens the Mic for voice recording, closes the Mic and then plays video again. For some reason, the audio from the video (or any sound whatsoever after that first recording) is never heard again. We've found out that if you lock -> unlock the device (or switch between apps), audio is back, until you open the mic again.

piyushb89979246
Adobe Employee
piyushb89979246
Adobe Employee
May 21, 2015

Could you please share a sample project to help us narrow down this problem.?

Regards

Adobe AIR Team

transistorradio
transistorradio
Participating Frequently
May 26, 2015

Sure thing.

Dropbox - ANEAudioTest

It has a small sample video and a Native Extension for voice recognition. Before recognising, it plays the video flawlessly. After recognising, the video plays without audio (and rather slowly). If instead of video we had sound only, it wouldn't be audible either.

If it's any help, the ANE sets up the audio session via

AVAudioSession *sessionInstance = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];

and the Audio Unit as

OEContinuousAudioUnit *_audioDriver;

and closes the audio unit via

if(self.audioDriver.audioUnitState == kAudioUnitIsStarted) {

        error = [self.audioDriver stopAudioUnit];

        if(error) {

            [self announceTeardownFailureForReason:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"Error: there was a problem stopping the audio unit: %@.", error]];

            return error;

        }

    }

marchbold
marchbold
Inspiring
August 21, 2014

Hi,

I'm facing the same problem, just wondering if you figured out a way around it or if the issue still exists with the current AIR releases?

Regards,

Michael    

air native extensions // https://airnativeextensions.com
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_falcan0
Inspiring
November 24, 2014

It is still there, I just encountered it.

My current "workaround" was to start the native recording after I start playing my sound (I'm playing only one Sound so I can afford it). In that case it works just fine as well.

I've got a sound mixer class so all the sounds that are playing are really not Sound, just virtual sounds - and I'm using the sampleDataEvent method of playing the resulting Sound. So I have the guarantee no Sound will start playing in the middle of the recording.

As for the other cases, I'm thinking if it wouldn't be possible to create wrapper class for Sound, create a wrapper for play method(I'm doing that now for my sound mixer as well)...then you have a way to know when a sound is about to be played. Then you can notify the ANE that .play happened, and you have a chance to do something. Hopefully to resume the microphone recording. But not sure, if there would be any hearable pauses etc.

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Anonymous
November 12, 2013

We're facing the same problem. Have you been able to address it please?

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