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

[Joe daLuz]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

No doubt the direct connection described above by Lennart would be superior.
Unfortunately I don't have the skills to provide a patch to make this
possible. But for my immediate application this hack does the trick very
nicely.


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

No problem.

Joe daLuz
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