Why does AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer stop showing CMSampleBuffers taken from the AVCaptureVideoDataOutput delegate?

Question

I want to display some CMSampleBuffer with AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer, but it freezes after showing the first sample.

I get sample buffers from the AVCaptureVideoDataOutputSampleBuffer delegate:

-(void)captureOutput:(AVCaptureOutput *)captureOutput didOutputSampleBuffer:(CMSampleBufferRef)sampleBuffer fromConnection:(AVCaptureConnection *)connection
{
    CFRetain(sampleBuffer);
    [self imageToBuffer:sampleBuffer];
    CFRelease(sampleBuffer);
}

put them in vector

-(void) imageToBuffer: (CMSampleBufferRef )source{
//buffers is defined as: std::vector<CMSampleBufferRef> buffers;
        CMSampleBufferRef newRef;
        CMSampleBufferCreateCopy(kCFAllocatorDefault, source, &newRef);
        buffers.push_back(newRef);
}

Then try to show them through AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer (in another ViewController)

AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer * displayLayer = [[AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer alloc] init];

    displayLayer.bounds = self.view.bounds;
    displayLayer.position = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.displayOnMe.bounds), CGRectGetMidY(self.displayOnMe.bounds));
    displayLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill;
    displayLayer.backgroundColor = [[UIColor greenColor] CGColor];

    [self.view.layer addSublayer:displayLayer];
    self.view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;

    dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("My queue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
    [displayLayer setNeedsDisplay];
    [displayLayer requestMediaDataWhenReadyOnQueue:queue
                                        usingBlock:^{
                                            while ([displayLayer isReadyForMoreMediaData]) {

                                                if (samplesKey < buffers.size()) {
                                                    CMSampleBufferRef buf = buffers[samplesKey];
                                                    [displayLayer enqueueSampleBuffer:buffers[samplesKey]];
                                                    samplesKey++;

                                                }else
                                                {
                                                    [displayLayer stopRequestingMediaData];
                                                    break;
                                                }
                                            }

                                        }];

but it shows that the first sample then freezes and does nothing.

And my video output settings are as follows:

//set up our output
self.videoDataOutput = [[AVCaptureVideoDataOutput alloc] init];
dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("VideoQueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
[_videoDataOutput setSampleBufferDelegate:self queue:queue];
[_videoDataOutput setVideoSettings:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                                [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA],(id)kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey,
                                                nil]]; 

Answer 1

, AVCaptureVideoDataOutput AVSampleDisplay.

, , CMSampleBufferRef.

, , ...

CFArrayRef attachments = CMSampleBufferGetSampleAttachmentsArray(sampleBuffer, YES);
CFMutableDictionaryRef dict = (CFMutableDictionaryRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(attachments, 0);

CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kCMSampleAttachmentKey_DisplayImmediately, kCFBooleanTrue);

( ), CMSampleBuffer , 0.

 double pts = CMTimeGetSeconds(CMSampleBufferGetPresentationTimeStamp(sampleBuffer));

 // ptsStart is equal to the first frames presentationTimeStamp so playback starts from time 0.
 CMTime presentationTimeStamp = CMTimeMake((pts-ptsStart)*1000000,1000000);

 CMSampleBufferSetOutputPresentationTimeStamp(sampleBuffer, presentationTimeStamp);

Update:

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, AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer

(pts) , . pts 0, pts pts Timebase 0. - .

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CMTimebaseRef controlTimebase;
CMTimebaseCreateWithMasterClock( CFAllocatorGetDefault(), CMClockGetHostTimeClock(), &controlTimebase );

displayLayer.controlTimebase = controlTimebase;

// Set the timebase to the initial pts here
CMTimebaseSetTime(displayLayer.controlTimebase, CMTimeMake(ptsInitial, 1));
CMTimebaseSetRate(displayLayer.controlTimebase, 1.0);

PTS CMSampleBuffer...

CMSampleBufferSetOutputPresentationTimeStamp(sampleBuffer, presentationTimeStamp);

, , , ....

CFDictionarySetValue(dict, kCMSampleAttachmentKey_DisplayImmediately, kCFBooleanFalse);

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