Well, thanks very much for pointing me to that ticket, as the command line there (pacat -r -d source | pacat -p -d sink ) provided exactly the capability I was looking for! Best regards, Joe daLuz On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>wrote: > On Mon, 10.08.09 16:09, Joe daLuz (jdaluz at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Sorry if I was unclear. Let me try again. > > > > The USB microphone captures audio as indicated by the successful > recording > > and volume meter display. But I cannot hear what is being captured in my > > headphones *during* recording. (The same is true if I use speakers > instead > > of headphones, though I wouldn't normally do that due to feedback).I can > > hear the captured audio when I play it back afterward. > > > > I did not have this problem in the past with a microphone connected to > mic > > in on the same sound card that the speakers/headphones are connected to. > So > > I suspect there is something more complex I need to do to get a USB > > microphone appearing as a separate "sound card" to work the same way. > > > > I provided "list_cards" output because I wasn't sure what information was > > needed to diagnose this. Please let me know if there is anything else you > > need. > > Ah, so you want the USB audio input to be sent directly to your PCI > sound card's output? > > Hmm, this is not supported. It's a much requested feature that we > allow direct connections between sources and sinks > (http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/90). > > However, so far nobody worked on that. THis is much more complex than > it might seem sicne your sound card's clocks might deviate. It's > doable but not trivial. Code that handles clock deviations has already > been implemented in module-combine, so this could be used as a blueprint. > > Patches welcome! > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090810/9cc6eaa2/attachment.htm>
