[pulseaudio-discuss] USB microphone works, monitoring doesn't

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 21:07 -0400, Joe daLuz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Lennart Poettering
>         
>         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
>         (http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/90).
>         
>         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!
>         
>         Lennart

> 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
> 

Sorry for butting in on this, but just a comment, isn't that sort of
hacker-ish? How would different rates and such be dealt with (perhaps
with --rate)? Is this the recommended way of doing this?

Oh, and Joe, please bottom-post instead of top-posting for
readability :)