Hi, I have a similar problem with parec that the one describes in the following https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-September/005077.html I am capturing the simultaneous output called combined.monitor with the module-suspend-on-idle unloaded and when the combined.monitor goes on idle parec stop to send data (i.e. silence) to the vlc pipe. Here the command I have used parec --device=$SEL_DEVICE --format=s16le --rate=44100 --channels=2 | \ vlc --no-video --demux=rawaud --rawaud-fourcc=s16l \ --rawaud-samplerate=44100 --rawaud-channels=2 \ --file-caching=500 --open="-" \ --sout=SOMEWHERE-ON-A-NETWORK pulseaudio 0.9.19 + 2.6.31-16-generic Bnj
