On Fri, 09.10.09 15:36, Alvaro Alonso Jim?nez (alvaroalo at gmail.com) wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have checked all the pulseaudio code in order to solve the problem of > idling when I have a sink different from the ALSA one (in other words, a new > module-null-sink). I need to code this stream using ffmpeg, and if I use the > ALSA sink, everything works fine, but whenever I create a new sink, and I > forward the applications to output the audio through that sink, if the > applications have no sound, the codification states blocked (waiting for an > audio stream). I need to have a permanent audio stream - if the application > has no audio, the pulseaudio should work as if there were silence, shouldn't > it?? - > > I have the module suspend-on-idle disabled, and I have checked that there is > a thread about idling per-device or sth like that, but I don't understand it > at all... > > Can anybody help me?? I would be really really grateful if so!!!!! I am sorry, but the not-unterstanding is mutual. I really cannot make sense of you wrote above. Sorry. Could you rephrase what exactly your problem is? Unlees I understand what you want to do and what doesn't work as expected I cannot help you. Please explain your problem in a way that is understandable even for people who don't know the context of the project your are working on. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4