On 2010-11-03 10:35, pl bossart wrote: > Hi, > As part of the passthrough/compressed data support in PulseAudio, we > need to disable monitoring. The main use of monitoring is to build > peakmeters to show volume information, and that just doesn't make > sense for compressed raw data.... I have also been using it several times to record things as streaming music, skype conversations etc. So I would say that the peak meters are not the only main usage of monitoring. Also, we always have a sink and a source, because of module-auto-sink that adds a null sink (and a monitor of that) if no sinks exists. If we end up having no sources at all, would that open up a can of worms? I would say to go with keeping the monitoring source - either decode it, leave the raw data as it is, or write zeroes, whatever we conclude is the best way to go. // David
