[pulseaudio-discuss] Screen casting with PulseAudio

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:38:39 +0200, Michał Sawicz <michal at sawicz.net>
wrote:
> Dnia 2011-10-18, wto o godzinie 13:33 +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont pisze:
>> Eh? The user doing the recording typically wants to hear the sound
>> while recording. So I don't see what null sink has to do here.
> As long as you only want to record your speakers, then just record the
> monitor of the output sink. The null / loopbacks can help if you want to
> record microphone, too.
> 
>> > Obviously that's not relevant to VLC itself, it's through 
>> > pactl/pacmd (sorry) and pavucontrol that you need to select the 
>> > appropriate recording source.
>> 
>> So that's not an answer to the problem. 
> Yes it is. VLC isn't the place to choose recording inputs. Volume
> control tools are the place to do so.

> Can you describe your complete usecase? 'Cause I fail to see the actual
> issue at hand.

If the user has selected "I want to record (or stream) my desktop", how
does the application get hold of the desktop audio? In other words how
should it select "a" sink monitor source?

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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