Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 19.08.08 16:05, Knut-H?vard Aksnes (kna at tirsdagsklubben.nu) wrote: > >> I see strange behaviour after the following sequence of commands: >> First I load a pipe-sink using this command. > >> pactl load-module module-pipe-sink file=/tmp/sound1 > > This is intended behaviour: module-pipe-sink does not rate limit what > you pull from it. It will not enforce any specify byte rate. if you > just pull the data out of it via "cat", then you will suck data out-of > it as fast as possible, regardless what sample settings you > configured. > > You are expected to read from the pipe sink in a speed that remotely > matches the sample rate you configured. So perhaps a suitable alternative would be to create a null sink, then use parec on the monitor source of that sink and dump that to the file. Col