Using CMSampleTimingInfo, CMSampleBuffer and AudioBufferList from raw PCM 16000 sample rate stream - ios

Question

I recevie audio data and size from outside, the audio appears to be linear PCM, signed int16, but when recording this using an AssetWriter it saves to the audio file highly distorted and higher pitch.
#define kSamplingRate 16000
#define kNumberChannels 1
UInt32 framesAlreadyWritten = 0;
-(AudioStreamBasicDescription) getAudioFormat {
AudioStreamBasicDescription format;
format.mSampleRate = kSamplingRate;
format.mFormatID = kAudioFormatLinearPCM;
format.mFormatFlags = kLinearPCMFormatFlagIsSignedInteger | kLinearPCMFormatFlagIsPacked;
format.mChannelsPerFrame = 1; // mono
format.mBitsPerChannel = 16;
format.mBytesPerFrame = sizeof(SInt16);
format.mFramesPerPacket = 1;
format.mBytesPerPacket = format.mBytesPerFrame * format.mFramesPerPacket;
format.mReserved = 0;
return format;
}
- (CMSampleBufferRef)createAudioSample:(const void *)audioData frames: (UInt32)len {
AudioStreamBasicDescription asbd = [self getAudioFormat];
CMSampleBufferRef buff = NULL;
static CMFormatDescriptionRef format = NULL;
OSStatus error = 0;
if(format == NULL) {
AudioChannelLayout acl;
bzero(&acl, sizeof(acl));
acl.mChannelLayoutTag = kAudioChannelLayoutTag_Mono;
error = CMAudioFormatDescriptionCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, &asbd, sizeof(acl), &acl, 0, NULL, NULL, &format);
}
CMTime duration = CMTimeMake(1, kSamplingRate);
CMTime pts = CMTimeMake(framesAlreadyWritten, kSamplingRate);
NSLog(#"-----------pts");
CMTimeShow(pts);
CMSampleTimingInfo timing = {duration , pts, kCMTimeInvalid };
error = CMSampleBufferCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, NULL, false, NULL, NULL, format, len, 1, &timing, 0, NULL, &buff);
framesAlreadyWritten += len;
if (error) {
NSLog(#"CMSampleBufferCreate returned error: %ld", (long)error);
return NULL;
}
AudioBufferList audioBufferList;
audioBufferList.mNumberBuffers = 1;
audioBufferList.mBuffers[0].mNumberChannels = asbd.mChannelsPerFrame;
audioBufferList.mBuffers[0].mDataByteSize = (UInt32)(number_of_frames * audioFormat.mBytesPerFrame);
audioBufferList.mBuffers[0].mData = audioData;
error = CMSampleBufferSetDataBufferFromAudioBufferList(buff, kCFAllocatorDefault, kCFAllocatorDefault, 0, &audioBufferList);
if(error) {
NSLog(#"CMSampleBufferSetDataBufferFromAudioBufferList returned error: %ld", (long)error);
return NULL;
}
return buff;
}

Answer 1

Not sure why you're dividing len by two, but your time should progress instead of being constant, something like
CMTime time = CMTimeMake(framesAlreadyWritten , kSamplingRate);