On Tue, 28.07.09 09:26, Alvaro Alonso Jim?nez (alvaroalo at gmail.com) wrote: > Hey everybody! > > Im trying to use parec in a context of grabbing the audio stream which is > directed to a sink. Things work fine, but in order to start, parec needs an > audio stream... I'm wondering if there is a possibility of beginning to > record without waiting for an audio stream, this is, recording "silence" > when no application launches any sound. This is probably caused by the auto-suspend logic in PA. You should be able to make this problem go away by unloading module-suspend-on-idle. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4