QAudioBuffer¶

PyQt5.QtMultimedia.QAudioBuffer

Description¶

The QAudioBuffer class represents a collection of audio samples with a specific format and sample rate.

Methods¶

__init__(): Create a new, empty, invalid buffer.

__init__(QAudioBuffer): Creates a new audio buffer from other. Generally this will have copy-on-write semantics - a copy will only be made when it has to be.

__init__(Union[QByteArray, bytes, bytearray], QAudioFormat, startTime: int = -1)

Creates a new audio buffer from the supplied data, in the given format. The format will determine how the number and sizes of the samples are interpreted from the data.

If the supplied data is not an integer multiple of the calculated frame size, the excess data will not be used.

This audio buffer will copy the contents of data.

startTime (in microseconds) indicates when this buffer starts in the stream. If this buffer is not part of a stream, set it to -1.

__init__(int, QAudioFormat, startTime: int = -1)

Creates a new audio buffer with space for numFrames frames of the given format. The individual samples will be initialized to the default for the format.

startTime (in microseconds) indicates when this buffer starts in the stream. If this buffer is not part of a stream, set it to -1.

byteCount() → int: Returns the size of this buffer, in bytes.

constData() → sip.voidptr

Returns a pointer to this buffer’s data. You can only read it.

This method is preferred over the const version of data() to prevent unnecessary copying.

There is also a templatized version of this function that allows you to retrieve a specific type of read-only pointer to the data. Note that there is no checking done on the format of the audio buffer - this is simply a convenience function.

// With a 16bit sample buffer:
const quint16 *data = buffer->constData<quint16>();

data() → sip.voidptr

Returns a pointer to this buffer’s data. You can modify the data through the returned pointer.

Since QAudioBuffers can share the actual sample data, calling this function will result in a deep copy being made if there are any other buffers using the sample. You should avoid calling this unless you really need to modify the data.

This pointer will remain valid until the underlying storage is detached. In particular, if you obtain a pointer, and then copy this audio buffer, changing data through this pointer may change both buffer instances. Calling data() on either instance will again cause a deep copy to be made, which may invalidate the pointers returned from this function previously.

There is also a templatized version of data() allows you to retrieve a specific type of pointer to the data. Note that there is no checking done on the format of the audio buffer - this is simply a convenience function.

// With a 16bit sample buffer:
quint16 *data = buffer->data<quint16>(); // May cause deep copy

duration() → int

Returns the duration of audio in this buffer, in microseconds.

This depends on the format(), and the frameCount().

format() → QAudioFormat

Returns the QAudioFormat of this buffer.

Several properties of this format influence how the duration() or byteCount() are calculated from the frameCount().

frameCount() → int

Returns the number of complete audio frames in this buffer.

An audio frame is an interleaved set of one sample per channel for the same instant in time.

isValid() → bool: Returns true if this is a valid buffer. A valid buffer has more than zero frames in it and a valid format.

sampleCount() → int

Returns the number of samples in this buffer.

If the format of this buffer has multiple channels, then this count includes all channels. This means that a stereo buffer with 1000 samples in total will have 500 left samples and 500 right samples (interleaved), and this function will return 1000.