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Glad to see pulseaudio-support is on the roadmap (shouldn't be too hard really). On Linux I have never had a proper ALSA recording with ffmpeg, due to ALSA "xru
by klaxa 10y ago
Glad to see pulseaudio-support is on the roadmap (shouldn't be too hard really). On Linux I have never had a proper ALSA recording with ffmpeg, due to ALSA "xruns", i.e. bad buffers. Pulse may be using a bulldozer to drive in a nail, but it doesn't yield this problem.
- everythingcli 10y agoyes, however still need some digging on this as my experience lacks a bit when it comes to sound on linux.
- popey 10y agoYou could use pacmd to gather the list of microphones and monitors. ffmpeg supports "-f pulse" in place of your "-f alsa".
- everythingcli 10y agothanks. Btw do you guys have any good article links about the differences between pulse and alsa and why one might be superior to the other.
- popey 10y agoPulse has more features, but sits atop alsa. So it's not generally one or the other as pulse still needs alsa underneath. I don't have any docs on which is 'better' but a quick search reveals a lot of opinion on the matter. Bear in mind many Linux distros introduced Pulse a little early (Ubuntu [my employer] included). This caused quite a bit of hatred for it, as it was a bit unstable. Now those issues are mostly gone, and it Just Works™.