Hello all, This is my first post on the developer forums. I am developing an app that records the screen of my app, using AVAssetWriter and RPScreenRecorder startCapture. Everything is working as it should on most cases. There are some seemingly random times where the file generated is of some kb and it is corrupted. There seems to be no pattern on what the device is or the iOS version is. It can happen on various phones and iOS versions. The steps I have followed in order to create the file are: configuring the AssetWritter videoAssetWriter = try? AVAssetWriter(outputURL: url!, fileType: AVFileType.mp4) let size = UIScreen.main.bounds.size let width = (Int(size.width / 4)) * 4 let height = (Int(size.height / 4)) * 4 let videoOutputSettings: Dictionary<String, Any> = [ AVVideoCodecKey : AVVideoCodecType.h264, AVVideoWidthKey : width, AVVideoHeightKey : height ] videoInput = AVAssetWriterInput(mediaType: AVMediaType.video, outputSettings: videoOutputSettings) videoInput?.expectsMediaDataInRealTime = true guard let videoInput = videoInput else { return } if videoAssetWriter?.canAdd(videoInput) ?? false { videoAssetWriter?.add(videoInput) } let audioInputsettings = [ AVFormatIDKey: Int(kAudioFormatMPEG4AAC), AVSampleRateKey: 12000, AVNumberOfChannelsKey: 1, AVEncoderAudioQualityKey: AVAudioQuality.high.rawValue ] audioInput = AVAssetWriterInput(mediaType: .audio, outputSettings: audioInputsettings) audioInput?.expectsMediaDataInRealTime = true guard let audioInput = audioInput else { return } if videoAssetWriter?.canAdd(audioInput) ?? false { videoAssetWriter?.add(audioInput) } The urlForVideo returns the URL to the documentDirectory, after appending and creating the folders needed. This part seems to be working as it should as the directories are created and the video file exists on them. Start the recording if RPScreenRecorder.shared().isRecording { return } RPScreenRecorder.shared().startCapture(handler: { [weak self] sample, bufferType, error in if let error = error { onError?(error.localizedDescription) } else { if (!RPScreenRecorder.shared().isMicrophoneEnabled) { RPScreenRecorder.shared().stopCapture { error in if let error = error { return } } onError?("Microphone was not enabled") } else { succesCompletion?() succesCompletion = nil self?.processSampleBuffer(sample, with: bufferType) } } }) { error in if let error = error { onError?(error.localizedDescription) } } Process the sampleBuffers guard CMSampleBufferDataIsReady(sampleBuffer) else { return } DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak self] in switch sampleBufferType { case .video: self?.handleVideoBaffer(sampleBuffer) case .audioMic: self?.add(sample: sampleBuffer, to: self?.audioInput) self?.audioInput) default: break } } // The add function from above fileprivate func add(sample: CMSampleBuffer, to writerInput: AVAssetWriterInput?) { if writerInput?.isReadyForMoreMediaData ?? false { writerInput?.append(sample) } // The handleVideoBaffer function from above fileprivate func handleVideoBaffer(_ sampleBuffer: CMSampleBuffer) { if self.videoAssetWriter?.status == AVAssetWriter.Status.unknown { self.videoAssetWriter?.startWriting() self.videoAssetWriter?.startSession(atSourceTime: CMSampleBufferGetPresentationTimeStamp(sampleBuffer)) } else { if (self.videoInput?.isReadyForMoreMediaData) ?? false { if self.videoAssetWriter?.status == AVAssetWriter.Status.writing { self.videoInput?.append(sampleBuffer) } } } } } Finally the stop recording func stopRecording(completion: @escaping (URL?, URL?, Error?) -> Void) { RPScreenRecorder.shared().stopCapture { error in if let error = error { completion(nil, nil, error) return } self.finish { videoURL, _ in completion(videoURL, nil, nil) } } } // The finish function mentioned above fileprivate func finish(completion: @escaping (URL?, URL?) -> Void) { let dispatchGroup = DispatchGroup() dispatchGroup.enter() finishRecordVideo { dispatchGroup.leave() } dispatchGroup.notify(queue: .main) { print("Finish with url:\(String(describing: self.urlForVideo()))") completion(self.urlForVideo(), nil) } } // The finishRecordVideo mentioned above fileprivate func finishRecordVideo(completion: @escaping ()-> Void) { videoInput?.markAsFinished() audioInput?.markAsFinished() videoAssetWriter?.finishWriting { if let writer = self.videoAssetWriter { if writer.status == .completed { completion() } else if writer.status == .failed { // Print the error to find out what went wrong if let error = writer.error { print("Video asset writing failed with error: \(error.localizedDescription). Url: \(writer.outputURL.path)") } else { print("Video asset writing failed, but no error description available.") } completion() }else { completion() } } } } What could it be the reason of the corrupted files generated? This issue has never happened to my devices so there is no way to debug using xcode. Also there are no errors popping out on the logs. Can you spot any issues on the code that can create this kind of issue? Do you have any suggestions on the problem at hand? Thanks

Hello all, I have an application that uses broadcast extension of Replay kit to record the entire screen and mic sound to a file on iOS. Up until some months ago, everything was smooth. Currently I am facing the following issue. If another app uses the microphone, then I loose the sound and never comes back. In order to debug this issue I have added a log to the processSampleBuffer, that logs a text each time it receives a .audioMic buffer type. I start the recording and everything works as expected. Later on, I go onto an app that uses microphone, and then I do not get any log for audioMic. I stop the recording on that app, but the sound never comes back. This as a result makes my video file to not have any sound at all. In the above context I also noticed that even with Photos app broadcast extension, if you start recording a video, and you go to Speech to text feature of the keyboard, then the sound is joined. While the STT is on, there is no sound and the sound of whatever comes after STT stops is joined to the sound before the STT starts, so I guess that this is something general. Also on the same research I did, I saw that google Meet app does not allow any microphone to be used from another app while you are in a meet (Even the STT is grayed out). I would like to know my options here. What can I do to have a valid video file with sound? How can I not allow other apps to use the microphone while my app is recording? Is there any entitlement? How does Google Meet do that? P.S. I have added an observer to observe the interruptions for the session and the type .began runs, but the type .ended does not, so I can not actually set the AVAudioSession to active again.