I finally got it. Looks like, when I was parsing and/or dumping the stream to a file, the stream operator << does not natively accept the types defined in stdint like int16_t. Once I placed a cast (int) it worked flawlessly :) 2010/6/15 David Henningsson <launchpad.web at epost.diwic.se>: > On 2010-06-15 20:49, Jos? Tom?s Tocino Garc?a wrote: >> I think that's not the problem, because Gnuplot does not expect a >> exact format, it renders whatever it gets. >> >> The thing is, a usual waveform gets positive and negative values all >> the time. Sometimes that's what some DSP algorithms use to measure >> frequency, but given the stream has this weird representation, they do >> not work. That's what bugged me in first place, so I used gnuplot to >> visually check the waveform. >> >> Isn't is supposed to be a PCM waveform? > > Yes it is. If your mic has a DC offset you might get only negative or > only positive levels though. What sample spec are you using in your call > to pa_simple_new? Perhaps you have to specify the exact format for > gnuplot, if it guesses wrong. > > By the way, there are plenty of programs that do simple recording - > arecord, parecord, audacity etc should be able to do that as well. > > // David > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Jos? Tom?s Tocino Garc?a