IZoomSDKShareSource::onStartSend is called randomly 1% of the time

Meeting SDK Windows
1

Description

I have the below code, and when I call StartSharing() after a meeting has started,
and a participant has joined, setExternalShareSource() always succeeds, but onStartSend()
is called very rarely - only around 1% of the time is the callback is called.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

In a different approach to test this, I called StartSharing() from the onMeetingStatusChanged callback, and when meeting status is MEETING_STATUS_INMEETING, then it works reliably - i.e. the
onStartSend() gets called. Of course, this is before any participant joined the meeting.

However I want to start the sharing only after a participant joins, and in this case it is not working reliably at all.

Please let me know if you need more details.
Thanks!

The code is:

void ZoomSDKShareSource::onStartSend(ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::IZoomSDKShareSender* pSender) {
    m_rawDataSender = pSender;
}

void ZoomSDKShareSource::StartSharing() {
    ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::IMeetingService* pMeetingService =
        SDKInterfaceWrap::GetInst().GetMeetingService();
    ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::IMeetingShareController* m_pShareController =
        pMeetingService->GetMeetingShareController();

    if (m_pShareController) {
        if (m_pShareController->CanStartShare()) {
            helper = ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::GetRawdataShareSourceHelper();
            ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::SDKError err;
            err = helper->setExternalShareSource(this);
            if (err != ZOOM_SDK_NAMESPACE::SDKERR_SUCCESS) {
                ZoomSdkHelper::printSdkError(err, "Raw sharing failed");
            }
        }
    }
}

Which Windows Meeting SDK version?
zoom-sdk-windows-5.16.10.26236

2

@integrations3 ,

For these actions, typically you want to call them after the SDK has successfully joined the meeting, and in this case MEETING_STATUS_INMEETING lets you know that the SDK has successfully joined.

If you want to only start sharing when someone has joined, you might want to consider taking a look at onUserJoin event

You can also check the status of the SDK by directly calling GetMeetingStatus method

3

@chunsiong.zoom , the issue is that we need to start/stop the sharing at any random point in time while the meeting is in progress, not dependent on user join or another event.

So I am wondering if setExternalSource returns no error then why isn’t the onStartSend being called 100% of the time?

4

@integrations3 ,

I’m doing something like this. Do note that the garbage collection has not been completed yet. Everytime you stop a sharescreen, you should destroy / deference the objects, so that the next sharescreen won’t be affected by existing objects in memory.

void attemptToStartSendingShareScreenRaw() {
	virtual_share_source = new ZoomSDKShareSource(video_source);
	IZoomSDKShareSourceHelper* pShareSourceHelper = GetRawdataShareSourceHelper();
	if (pShareSourceHelper)
	{
		SDKError err = pShareSourceHelper->setExternalShareSource(virtual_share_source);
		if (err != SDKERR_SUCCESS) {
			printf("Error occurred:  %d\n", err);
			//handle error
		}
		else {
			printf("successfully set virtual share source...\n");
		}
	}
}
5

The problem is happening on the very first screenshare I try to do.
I actually took inspiration from your code to do it so thanks for the code!

Sometimes if I wait for 10 seconds after a user has joined, and after the 10 seconds I start the share, then onStartSend gets called.

However even in that case, sometimes the callback does not get called even after waiting 10 or more seconds.

So I wonder if this is a bug in the SDK? Is there some debug logging that I can enable to show me what the SDK is doing?

6

@integrations3 could you check out the sample here?