On Fri, 23.05.08 12:00, Rui Pereira (rfapereira at gmail.com) wrote: > But here's my problem - when reading the pipe that PA creates, I get an > enormous data rate out of it. I configure it for 22050Hz, s16le and 2 > channels, so I expect around 705kb/s.. Yes, the pipe sink expects that the other side of the pipe does timing. If you just read its data as fast as you can then PA will give you as much data as possible and if it doesn't have any it will consider that an underrun and hand you zeros to fill up. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4