On Thu, 05.02.09 14:02, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > Hi, > > The vumeter on the Input devices tab will show a nice vumeter even if > nothing is recording.... > > This means that if you have pavucontrol open and use a crappy > application (like Skype) to record sound via the device directly (as is > the only way with skype - playback is cool via pulse but recording sucks > big time), then it cannot open the device because pavucontrol has hogged it. > > I think that pavucontrol should only display a vumeter for sources if a > real app has the source open too. That's actually easy to fix. .15 has learned the new flag PA_STREAM_DONT_INHIBIT_AUTO_SUSPEND. If you set that on a stream then the stream is ignored when the auto suspended decides whether a device can be suspended or not. It's just a matter of setting this flag for all streams pavucontrol creates. Patches welcome. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
