Ok, I will try to be more explicit. I am trying to grab the sound of some applications using the parec tool. I want to have independent audio sinks, one for each application, task that I have accomplished creating different null-sinks, redirecting the audio streams of that applications to that sinks, and finally, specifying the corresponding monitors when using parec. The problem comes from the fact that when the application I want to grab the sound from has no sound - I am testing it with firefox and a website with no sound -, and the sink is one of those I have just created. In these conditions, when executing parec, the program states blocked waiting for an audio stream - and despite having the module suspend-on-idle disabled -. If the application has sound - firefox with a website with sound -, everything works fine!!!! Ah, and regarding the ALSA sink stuff... When the sink I am grabbing the sound from is the ALSA one, I apparently do not have this problem. I think I have explained the core of the problem, and I would be extremely grateful if you could help me with that. Thank you very very much. Alvaro <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:28 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><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, 09.10.09 15:36, Alvaro Alonso Jiménez (<a href="mailto:alvaroalo@gmail.com">alvaroalo@gmail.com</a>) wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have checked all the pulseaudio code in order to solve the problem of > idling when I have a sink different from the ALSA one (in other words, a new > module-null-sink). I need to code this stream using ffmpeg, and if I use the > ALSA sink, everything works fine, but whenever I create a new sink, and I > forward the applications to output the audio through that sink, if the > applications have no sound, the codification states blocked (waiting for an > audio stream). I need to have a permanent audio stream - if the application > has no audio, the pulseaudio should work as if there were silence, shouldn't > it?? - > > I have the module suspend-on-idle disabled, and I have checked that there is > a thread about idling per-device or sth like that, but I don't understand it > at all... > > Can anybody help me?? I would be really really grateful if so!!!!! </div></div>I am sorry, but the not-unterstanding is mutual. I really cannot make sense of you wrote above. Sorry. Could you rephrase what exactly your problem is? Unlees I understand what you want to do and what doesn't work as expected I cannot help you. Please explain your problem in a way that is understandable even for people who don't know the context of the project your are working on. 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