[pulseaudio-discuss] Problem with parec

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 28.07.09 09:26, Alvaro Alonso Jiménez (alvaroalo at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hey everybody!
> 
> Im trying to use parec in a context of grabbing the audio stream which is
> directed to a sink. Things work fine, but in order to start, parec needs an
> audio stream... I'm wondering if there is a possibility of beginning to
> record without waiting for an audio stream, this is, recording "silence"
> when no application launches any sound.

This is probably caused by the auto-suspend logic in PA.

You should be able to make this problem go away by unloading
module-suspend-on-idle.

Lennart

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