Use a stream as file?

Question

I am working on a telephony application using a third party library to send audio across the wire.

This third party library only accepts a very specific wav format, and takes in the file as a filename path on disk. Our current audio files are not in this format. I can use NAudio to convert from our legacy format to this new format.

However, I don't really want two sets of audio files floating around.

What I basically want to do is take an NAudio.WaveStream and be able to pass it to the third party library without writing it to disk, because the library takes a path to a filename. If performance is bad, I will be forced to have multiple sets of audio files, but I would like to avoid this. I am not even sure what terms to Google.

Is this a use case for memory mapped files?

Answer 1

Probably not worth your while but if you're absolutely stuck with the 3rd party app and are against writing to disk you could create a virtual drive using a library like http://dokan-dev.net/en/. You could intercept the requests from the 3rd party app and stream the converted files to it as they were needed.

Saying that, I would probably take the hit on writing the files to a normal drive.

If nothing else it'll kick off your searches.