[pulseaudio-discuss] silence on *.monitor

[Maarten Bosmans]

2010/12/20 Alexey Fisher <bug-track at fisher-privat.net>:
> Hallo all,
> i have a problem to capture anything on any *.monitor device. Steps to
> reproduce.
> Generate sound:
> gst-launch audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! pulsesink
>
> capture sound:
> gst-launch pulsesrc
> device=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor !
> audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=test.ogg
>
> i get only silence it output file.

What do the vumeters in pavucontrol tell you for the alsa sink?

Maarten