PulseAudio not starting

[evelyn]

I'm sure it's my own problem, but I figured I'd write it out just in case:

[ 96.18s main info ] starting glc
[ 96.18s file info ] opening /home/matthew/Videos/secondlife.glc for writing stream (no sync)
[ 96.18s pack info ] compressing using QuickLZ
[ 96.18s pack info ] compressing using QuickLZ
[ 96.18s gl_capture info ] reading frames in GL_BGRA format
[ 96.19s main info ] glc running
[ 96.19s alsa_hook info ] starting capturing
[ 96.19s gl_capture info ] starting capturing
[ 96.19s gl_capture info ] refreshing color correction
[ 96.19s state dbg ] applying 96165401 usec time difference
[ 96.19s main info ] started capturing
[ 96.19s pulse error ] Connection failure: Connection terminated

[ 96.21s gl_capture dbg ] calculated capture area for video 1 is 1680x997+0+0
[ 96.21s gl_capture info ] creating/updating configuration for video 1
[ 96.21s gl_capture dbg ] video 1: 1680x997 (1680x997), 0x01 flags
[ 103.32s alsa_hook info ] stopping capturing
[ 103.32s gl_capture info ] stopping capturing
[ 103.32s main info ] stopped capturing
[ 474.48s main info ] closing glc
[ 474.48s alsa dbg ] closing
[ 474.48s opengl dbg ] closing
[ 474.48s pulse dbg ] closing
[ 474.48s log info ] log closed

It looks like Pulse doesn't even start up at all. o.o

I started the program using:
glc-capture -f 30 -o secondlife.glc -p -e 420jpeg -z quicklz -v 4 -l secondlife.log -j -b front exodus

[swick]

[ 96.19s pulse error ] Connection failure: Connection terminated

Seems like glc can't connect to the pulseaudio server. I guess it's something with your configuration and I'm no expert with pa at all. Maybe more information would help. Don't know though.

[iandall]

I ran into this as well. It seems that if no audio devices is specified then the "first" input device (i.e. a microphone) is used. If there is no input device you get the symptoms you reported. If you want to record the output of the application you need to specify the right device with -a device. The command pactl list | grep '\.monitor' will show all the monitor devices, which are the devices to use to monitor the corresponding output. The output will potentially be a mix of streams. I expect it is possible to capture (just) a specific stream but I don't know how to do that.