The github smart-mirror project uses arecord on pi devices to capture user audio. This is a long running application, (I expect my mirror to be on 24/7) Anyhow, after 18 hours, we stop receiving audio data. I have debugged it to the capture routine in aplay.c Basically it is not intended to run forever. rest = count; <---- get the remaining size from the count total size // don't let the remaining data size be too big if (rest > fmt_rec_table[file_type].max_filesize) rest = fmt_rec_table[file_type].max_filesize; if (max_file_size && (rest > max_file_size)) rest = max_file_size; write the 'file' header /* setup sample header */ if (fmt_rec_table[file_type].start) fmt_rec_table[file_type].start(fd, rest); /* capture */ fdcount = 0; while (rest > 0 && recycle_capture_file == 0 && !in_aborting) { size_t c = (rest <= (off64_t)chunk_bytes) ? (size_t)rest : chunk_bytes; size_t f = c * 8 / bits_per_frame; if (pcm_read(audiobuf, f) != f) { in_aborting = 1; break; } if (xwrite(fd, audiobuf, c) != c) { perror(name); in_aborting = 1; break; } count -= c; <--- decrement the file size rest -= c; <---- decement the remaining data fdcount += c; } Eventually rest AND count will be 0 or less than 0 (for wav this is 2 gig). Then we loop back up, start another file, and then while rest >0, it is not any longer Then we loop, and write a new file header, and then rest <0, so no data capture.. If this is stdout, we should NOT decrement the rest and size counters.. but let the timelimit and sample limit stop the outer loop while ((file_type == FORMAT_RAW && !timelimit && !sampleslimit) || count > 0); so my proposed change is /* capture */ fdcount = 0; while (rest > 0 && recycle_capture_file == 0 && !in_aborting) { size_t c = (rest <= (off64_t)chunk_bytes) ? (size_t)rest : chunk_bytes; size_t f = c * 8 / bits_per_frame; if (pcm_read(audiobuf, f) != f) { in_aborting = 1; break; } if (xwrite(fd, audiobuf, c) != c) { perror(name); in_aborting = 1; break; } If(!stdout){ <---- add this test count -= c; <--- decrement the file size rest -= c; <---- decement the remaining data fdcount += c; } } Sam _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel