mp4 recording (audio only) using media foundation okay on Win10 but finalize hangs on 11

As part of a much larger project, I have a piece that records from the microphone to a number of different file formats. For MP4 (AAC) output, I use Media Foundation from a C# application to create a MP4 (AAC) recording. It works perfectly on Windows 10 (MF DLLs version 10.0.19041.1) but MP4 output hangs during finalization on Windows 11 (10.0.22621.1). It also works perfectly on both 10 and 11 for all formats except MP4.

Data is read in from the microphone in PCM format and delivered to whichever one of my various output writer classes is appropriate for the desired format. Code is C# using a wrapper based on MF.Net to talk to the Media Foundation COM objects for MP4 output.

Here is the creation code for the MP4 writer -- error checking is removed here but it is present in the code and all return values are success values.

MFStartup (0x20070, Full);

MFCreateMediaType (out IMFMediaType inputMediaType);
inputMediaType.SetGUID (MF_MT_MAJOR_TYPE, Audio);
inputMediaType.SetGUID (MF_MT_SUBTYPE, PCM);
inputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_BITS_PER_SAMPLE, 16);
inputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_SAMPLES_PER_SECOND, 48000);
inputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_NUM_CHANNELS, 2);

MFCreateMediaType (out IMFMediaType outputMediaType);
outputMediaType.SetGUID (MF_MT_MAJOR_TYPE, Audio);
outputMediaType.SetGUID (MF_MT_SUBTYPE, AAC);
outputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_BITS_PER_SAMPLE, 16);
outputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_SAMPLES_PER_SECOND, 48000);
outputMediaType.SetUINT32 (MF_MT_AUDIO_NUM_CHANNELS, 2);

MFCreateAttributes (out IMFAttributes attributes, 1);
attributes.SetGUID (MF_TRANSCODE_CONTAINERTYPE, MPEG4);

MFCreateFile (ReadWrite, DeleteIfExist, None, filename, out IMFByteStream byteStream);
MFCreateMPEG4MediaSink (byteStream, null, outputMediaType, out IMFMediaSink mediaSink);
MFCreateSinkWriterFromMediaSink (mediaSink, attributes, out IMFSinkWriter sinkWriter);
// audio track stream added when sink writer created from sink
sinkWriter.SetInputMediaType (0, inputMediaType, null);

long currentPosition = 0;
sinkWriter.BeginWriting ();

Since the PCM input is delivered to the C# code in a native buffer and must feed into various file formats, I use a custom media buffer that inherits from IMFMediaBuffer and wraps the native buffer so I don't have to make a copy of the data. Here is the writing code that executes for each input buffer.

CustomMediaBuffer inBuffer = new CustomMediaBuffer (native buffer info);
MFCreateSample (out IMFSample sample);
sample.AddBuffer (inBuffer);

long durationConverted = (10000000L * native buffer length) / averageBytesPerSecond;
sample.SetSampleTime (currentPosition);
sample.SetSampleDuration (durationConverted);

currentPosition += durationConverted;
sinkWriter.WriteSample (0, sample);

There is a lock around both the write and close logic to prevent samples being added after the close is initiated. The close code is:

sinkWriter.Flush (0);
sinkWriter.Finalize_ ();
mediaSink.Shutdown ();

When this runs on Windows 10, everything works correctly to output the MP4 file. On Windows 11, the call to Finalize_ never returns -- no error, no crash, nothing in the event logs, just crickets.

Has anyone else encountered this or have any sort of suggestion to address the problem?

Thanks,

Judy