[pulseaudio-discuss] max deviation is never above 50%

[guest271314]

What is the result when recording the device output directly with parec -d
<device>?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:31 AM Mike Fisher <mike at fisher5.com> wrote:

> Fresh reboot.
> I ran these 4 commands simultaneously:
> arecord -f cd ALSAoutput.wav
> parecord PAoutput.wav
> gnome-sound-recorder
> audacity
> All volumes to 100%
> Started them all recording at the same time, and here are my results.
> arecord -f cd ALSAoutput.wav Full deflection
> parecord PAoutput.wav Full deflection
> gnome-sound-recorder 50% deflection
> audacity Full deflection
> I did not use  pasuspender for any test.
>
>
> It used to be the case that if I had pulse running it would grab ALSA, and
> no other applications could use ALSA directly. They had to use pulse which
> allows more than one application to use sound at the same time. I would
> open Audacity using the pulse host. Then I would only get 50% max
> deviation.
>
> I don't know what changed, but this is actually the first time I have ever
> gotten audacity to get full deviation without having to
> auto spawn=no; pulseaudio -k
> Then launch Audacity to grab ALSA which causes other apps to be blocked.
>
> So this is a good start. Audacity now only sees ALSA as host, and pulse is
> no longer available as a host. This is confusing me as this never happened
> before while pulse was still running. I know pulse is running because
> pavucontrol still shows all its controls.
>
> So I reboot and repeat the test to find out that I get the same result a/s
> above. Audacity has full deviation with pulse running (Audacity only sees
> ALSA, but works nonetheless). So what am I bitching about, it seems to be
> working. I should be happy and just go away without understanding WHY this
> is working. except for 1 item.
>
> gnome-sound-recorder only gets 50% max deviation AT THE SAME TIME as 3
> other applications are getting 100% ma deviation. WHAT????
>
> So I have 4 sound clips recorded by 4 different apps all using pulse audio
> 3 of them get 100% max deviation and one does not.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Here is a fresh system config from right after the above test.
> https://termbin.com/1hd1
>
> Man I hope someone can help me finger this all out.
>
>
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