> Sorry, I'm not convinced by that. If the device has to be controlled > exclusively, the right position is the open/close. Otherwise, the > program cannot know when it becomes inaccessible out of sudden during > its operation. I can say that I've definitely seen cases where if you configure a device as the "default" capture device in PulseAudio, then pulse will continue to capture from it even if you're not actively capturing the audio from pulse. I only spotted this because I had a USB analyzer on the device and was dumbfounded when the ISOC packets kept arriving even after I had closed VLC. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html