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TheEpicSnowWolf
TheEpicSnowWolf

Reputation: 71

Converting WasapiLoopbackCapture buffer to PCM

I am currently writing a Discord bot using D#+, that is supposed to send all audio that's coming through an output sound device to a voice channel.

Using NAudio, I can successfully capture the audio from a device, and my current code looks somewhat like this:

Capture.StartRecording(); // 'Capture' is a WasapiLoopbackCapture object
Capture.DataAvailable += async (s, a) =>
{
    await stream.WriteAsync(a.Buffer); // 'stream' is the transmit stream for the Discord connection
};

Unfortunaltey however, D#+ is very specific about requiring 16bit stereo PCM at a sample rate of 48000 Hz, which is not quite the same as the IEEE Floating Point format that the Wasapi Capture Buffer produces, as I found out through some reading. So I know by now that I have to convert the buffer to said PCM format before being able to write it into the Transmit Stream.

After some research, I found some articles like this one and questions on here like this one, that all generally seem to go into the right direction of what I want to achieve, but not quite, or at least I am too unskilled with audio processing to apply it properly and make it work.

So my question is, essentially, how can I constantly convert the data that I get from the WasapiLoopbackCapture buffer into a new buffer with said PCM format? Any help is much appreciated!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1492

Answers (1)

TheEpicSnowWolf
TheEpicSnowWolf

Reputation: 71

Thanks to @GoodNightNerdPride for pointing me to this issue on the NAudio GitHub Page. With the code snippets posted in there, I was able to write this method, which can convert the buffer from an WasapiLoopbackCapture object into 16bit PCM format.

/// <summary>
/// Converts an IEEE Floating Point audio buffer into a 16bit PCM compatible buffer.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="inputBuffer">The buffer in IEEE Floating Point format.</param>
/// <param name="length">The number of bytes in the buffer.</param>
/// <param name="format">The WaveFormat of the buffer.</param>
/// <returns>A byte array that represents the given buffer converted into PCM format.</returns>
public byte[] ToPCM16(byte[] inputBuffer, int length, WaveFormat format)
{
    if (length == 0)
        return new byte[0]; // No bytes recorded, return empty array.

    // Create a WaveStream from the input buffer.
    using var memStream = new MemoryStream(inputBuffer, 0, length);
    using var inputStream = new RawSourceWaveStream(memStream, format);

    // Convert the input stream to a WaveProvider in 16bit PCM format with sample rate of 48000 Hz.
    var convertedPCM = new SampleToWaveProvider16(
        new WdlResamplingSampleProvider(
            new WaveToSampleProvider(inputStream),
            48000)
        );

    byte[] convertedBuffer = new byte[length];

    using var stream = new MemoryStream();
    int read;
            
    // Read the converted WaveProvider into a buffer and turn it into a Stream.
    while ((read = convertedPCM.Read(convertedBuffer, 0, length)) > 0)
        stream.Write(convertedBuffer, 0, read);

    // Return the converted Stream as a byte array.
    return stream.ToArray();
}

With this, streaming the audio captured via WasapiLoopbackCapture to Discord using D#+ is as simple as this:

var stream = connection.GetTransmitSink();

Capture.StartRecording();
Capture.DataAvailable += async (s, a) =>
{
    await stream.WriteAsync(ToPCM16(a.Buffer, a.BytesRecorded, Capture.WaveFormat));
};

Upvotes: 5

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