Well, thanks very much for pointing me to that ticket, as the command line there (pacat -r -d source | pacat -p -d sink ) provided exactly the capability I was looking for! Best regards, Joe daLuz <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, 10.08.09 16:09, Joe daLuz (<a href="mailto:jdaluz@gmail.com">jdaluz@gmail.com</a>) wrote: > Sorry if I was unclear. Let me try again. > > The USB microphone captures audio as indicated by the successful recording > and volume meter display. But I cannot hear what is being captured in my > headphones *during* recording. (The same is true if I use speakers instead > of headphones, though I wouldn't normally do that due to feedback).I can > hear the captured audio when I play it back afterward. > > I did not have this problem in the past with a microphone connected to mic > in on the same sound card that the speakers/headphones are connected to. So > I suspect there is something more complex I need to do to get a USB > microphone appearing as a separate "sound card" to work the same way. > > I provided "list_cards" output because I wasn't sure what information was > needed to diagnose this. Please let me know if there is anything else you > need. </div>Ah, so you want the USB audio input to be sent directly to your PCI sound card's output? Hmm, this is not supported. It's a much requested feature that we allow direct connections between sources and sinks (<a href="http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/90" target="_blank">http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/90</a>). However, so far nobody worked on that. THis is much more complex than it might seem sicne your sound card's clocks might deviate. It's doable but not trivial. Code that handles clock deviations has already been implemented in module-combine, so this could be used as a blueprint. Patches welcome! <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net <a href="http://0pointer.net/lennart/" target="_blank">http://0pointer.net/lennart/</a> GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>