On Sunday 15 December 2013 18:42:12 Manuel Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > it is no problem to record the sound, played by an application, but I > still have to "listen to this sound". If I mute the application, I can't > record it. > > Is it possible to, for example, create some kind of "dummy soundcard" to > let the application play on this device allowing me to record it without > having to listen to the playback? > > The idea is to decode DRM radio received by an SDR device. I want the > decoder application to "record" the digital DRM stream but only want to > listen to the decoded audio. > > Thank you in advance. > > Greetings, > > Manuel > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss Well, it's quite easy. The module you're looking for is called a null-sink http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index3h3 You can either load the module: pacmd load-module module-null-sink or you can predefine it in your default.pa file, if you intend to use this frequently. Daniel
