Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fri, 24.10.08 12:39, Knut-H?vard Aksnes (kna at tirsdagsklubben.nu) wrote: > > >> I am working on an application where I listen to monitor interfaces. The >> audio stream is intended to be merged with other AV streams later down >> the processing pipeline using third party code, (open source but quite >> complex to understand and modify). My problem is that the application >> connecting to the pulse audio monitor might or might not send audio, >> depending on user input, if it doesn't send audio it won't connect to >> the pulse audio source, the application might also disconnect the audio >> based on user input, before terminating itself. (Audio is handled by >> plugins that might get loaded and unloaded based on user input) >> >> My problem is that I really need to receive silence (zero filled audio ) >> instead of empty packages from the monitor interface when no sources is >> connected. Is it possible to configure pulse audio to give me this? >> > > A simple possibility is not to load module-suspend-on-idle. Only when > an audio devcie is suspended you won't get any data from it. > At least on fedora 9 (running pulseaudio 0.9.10) this doesn't work. An easy test is to unload the module-suspend-on-idle, then creating a null sink then trying parec on this sinks monitor device without connecting a source. The result is an empty file. What I need is a file growing with the same speed (pa_bytes_per_second per second) even when no applications are sending to the associated l sink. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: kna.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 517 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20081028/5628eec6/attachment.vcf>
