[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #141: parec/pacat produces unusable files

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#141: parec/pacat produces unusable files
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 Reporter:  hackeron       |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:         
Component:  module-alsa-*  |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:                 |  
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 # pacat -r --channels=1 --format=s16le --rate=22050 -d
 alsa_input.usb_device_471_329_01690000D6490703_if1_alsa_capture_0
 >testfile
 # file testfile
 testfile: data

 # arecord f S16_LE -r 22050 -D hwplug:1 testfile
 # file testfile
 testfile: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit,
 mono 22050 Hz

 The parec/pacat files are also not usable by mencoder, sox, ffmpeg, vlc
 and other players I've tried.

 I'm willing to accept I'm doing something wrong, but the files created by
 pacat seem to be unusable.

 I'm using pulse audio on Ubuntu and these are the packages I have
 installed:
 ii  libao-pulse                                0.9.3-1
 ii  libpulse-browse0                           0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                    0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  libpulse0                                  0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  padevchooser                               0.9.3-2
 ii  paman                                      0.9.3-1build2
 ii  paprefs                                    0.9.5-1
 ii  pavucontrol                                0.9.4-1build2
 ii  pavumeter                                  0.9.2-1
 ii  pulseaudio                                 0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat                   0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-module-gconf                    0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-module-hal                      0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-module-x11                      0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-module-zeroconf                 0.9.6-1ubuntu2
 ii  pulseaudio-utils                           0.9.6-1ubuntu2


 I'm using the default default.pa.

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