[pulseaudio-discuss] Monitor sources are silent when recording over LAN

[Tanu Kaskinen]

I added pulseaudio-discuss back to Cc.

On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 08:28 +0300, Martin Laakso wrote:
> On 07.10.2017 20:17, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-09-27 at 11:07 +0300, Martin Laakso wrote:
> > > Other sources work fine over network, but I tried to record monitor
> > > sources of several computers (Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10, PulseAudio 10.0),
> > > and none worked, so this isn't an isolated issue. Locally the monitor
> > > sources record fine. pacmd list-sources indicates that the tunneled
> > > sources are running and not muted.
> > > 
> > > If this is an unknown bug, how can I try to find out more?
> > > 
> > > If this is a feature, is there a workaround?
> > 
> > It's an unknown bug as far as I can tell. Does the tunnel source
> > produce silence, or is it just stuck? If you don't know how to tell,
> > you can for example run
> > 
> >      parecord --device=TUNNEL_SOURCE_NAME > test.wav
> > 
> > for a few seconds, and see if test.wav size is more than 44 bytes (the
> > wav header is 44 bytes).
> 
> Silence gets recorded.
> 
> > Does this affect also direct connections over the network (i.e. not
> > using the tunnel module)? Try this:
> > 
> >      PULSE_SERVER=REMOTE_MACHINE_ADDRESS parecord --device=MONITOR_SOURCE_NAME > test.wav
> 
> This works, so apparently only the tunnel module fails.

Weird. Can you run "pactl list" on both machines while recording from
the tunnel source, and attach the output in email?

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Tanu

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