[pulseaudio-discuss] Detecting when data source disappears?

[Georg Chini]

On 17.05.2017 04:28, Steven Wawryk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading up and experimenting on both the simple and async 
> APIs.  In one experiment, I used a CLI file that sets up a set of 
> module-sine modules with output remapped by module-remap-sink modules 
> to a stream fed to a module-null-sink module.
>
> I then wrote 2 programs, one using the simple API and the other the 
> async API to read date from the module-null-sink monitor source and 
> write the data to file (both based on examples to provide "parec" 
> functionality).  Then I could unload either all the module-sine 
> modules or all the module-remap-sink modules to interrupt the data 
> source to the module-null-sink module.
>
> Both programs gave the same result, which I don't completely understand.
>
> The issues I've found are:
>
> 1. After the data source is gone, the program continues to write data 
> to file.  There doesn't seem to be any way to detect a stream of 
> "zero" data using the APIs.

That is expected behavior. null-sink.monitor is not different from other 
sources, which means
if there is no input to the null-sink, it will generate silence. It's 
like recording from an unplugged
mic or line-in input.

>
> 2. If I run it for 20 seconds, with 10 seconds of sinusoidal data 
> followed by 10 seconds of null data, the file ends up with anything 
> from 30 to 40 seconds worth of data in it.
>
> 3. The files written from case 2, above, show the initial sinusoidal 
> data as expected, but then, following data stream interruption, about 
> 5 to 10 seconds of switching back and forth between segments of 
> sinusoidal data and null data, before finally settling to null data 
> only till the end of file.

Did you test if the same happens with parec? If yes, are there any log 
messages
during the time?

>
> Can anyone explain to me why it behaves like this?  Or if there's 
> something in the async API that I'm missing in detecting null data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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