At Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:08:59 -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm not convinced by that. If the device has to be controlled > > exclusively, the right position is the open/close. Otherwise, the > > program cannot know when it becomes inaccessible out of sudden during > > its operation. > > I can say that I've definitely seen cases where if you configure a > device as the "default" capture device in PulseAudio, then pulse will > continue to capture from it even if you're not actively capturing the > audio from pulse. I only spotted this because I had a USB analyzer on > the device and was dumbfounded when the ISOC packets kept arriving > even after I had closed VLC.
You might have had an input monitor active in some PA apps? PA shouldn't do it as default. If it does unintentionally, you should report it to PA guys. Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
