Sounds like the perfect usecase for HLS - record segments to local storage
and periodically rewrite an M3U8 playlist without a closing tag, then close
the playlist  by writing the closing tag on stream close.



On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Matthew Pease <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I've searched for a previous answer to this question, but did not find one.
>
> In my IOS app, I record a stream to a file.   I then want to provide
> playback access to that file starting from any offset.  The user can listen
> to any part of that file by dragging a slider.
>
> The problem is that the file is continuously growing while the new stream
> data arrives & is appended to the file.
>
> ExtAudioFileSeek says that its behavior is undefined for files that are
> open for writing.  Also when I play the file back, I might move past a
> point which was the end of the file when the file was originally opened.
>
> I suppose one way I could do it would be to continuously close & open the
> file.  open to write, then close it.   And then open it again to read the
> next part of the stream.  I can make the file an uncompressed format so
> that seeking within the file will be fast.
>
> Does this sound like a good plan?  Any other possibilties?
>
>
> Thank you-
> Matt
>
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