Hey!!!! I have had the same problem, which I considered already fixed, but with another sink. I mean, the proble was fixed when the sink considered were the speakers, but when creating a NULL-SINK, and sending the audio stream to it, the system keeps waiting for an audio stream. I have the suspend-on-idle module unloaded, so it cant be the reason. Any other possibility that I could have missed???' Thanks in advance!!! <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:45 AM, 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><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, 28.07.09 09:26, Alvaro Alonso Jiménez (<a href="mailto:alvaroalo@gmail.com">alvaroalo@gmail.com</a>) 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. </div></div>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 -- 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> </blockquote></div> -- Alvaro Alonso Jiménez Universidad Carlos III de Madrid NIA 100029618