On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 10:34:34PM +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello: > > I use pulseaudio's parec to record an audio stream played > in a browser. I use openSUSE 15.1 with its default pulseaudio > version pulseaudio-11.1-lp151.5.3. > > This is what I do: > > load null sink: > pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=stream > > I move the firefox browser sound to null output in pavucontrol GUI. > > I record the stream with parec: > parec -d stream.monitor --file-format out.wav > > This works well. But I also want to switch between two user's desktop. > User1 is on VT7, user2 is on VT8. > I start to record on VT8, then I switch to VT7; the record is OK. > But when I switch back to VT8, the record gets a short interrupt > (pause), which is annoying. An image of the waveform showing the > short pause in the can be seen here: > > https://paste.opensuse.org/85986435 > > How could I fix this, to get an uninterrupted recording? Are these actually different system (unix) users? With different UIDs? If so, pulse doesn't really work in a multi-user environment by default. How have you configured pulse to use multiple users? That may shed some light on what's causing your cut-outs. --Sean
