Latency and Time elapsed not working

[FQQD]

It doesn't make this nice script unusable, but still butgs me out. the Latency and Time display in the Audio section of the CLI don't seem to chnage, at all. Otherwise, this works perfectly fine.

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[Enitoni]

Hmm, is this while the audio is playing? Due to a limitation that I cannot seem to figure out, when parec is not transmitting audio, the meter and this timer will freeze.

[FQQD]

yes, it's also while playing music. it doesnt change at all.

[Enitoni]

What audio device are you using? I'm guessing the audio device may play a part of why parec is not reporting the time.

[FQQD]

I'm unsure what you mean by that, but I'm using a Behringer Xenyx 302USB as my audio device. As seen in the screenshot, it seems to use the PCM2902 Chipset. (I'm unsure though)

[Enitoni]

Hm, okay. Can you try running the parec command in your terminal that pulseshitter is running? You can find it by using a process manager such as htop. Then copy the command, let it run for a bit (with your audio source playing audio) and then send me what it logged.

[FQQD]

I think my computer is just screaming at me. This was my command: parec --verbose --device alsa_output.usb-Burr-Brown_from_TI_USB_Audio_CODEC-00.analog-stereo-output.monitor --monitor-stream 168 --format=float32le --rate=48000 --channels=2 --latency=1 --process-time=1

This is what "logged":

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/96952506/235436800-2efc7027-579f-440d-ac97-1d45dd87faec.mp4

I tried it once without and with pulseshitter running.

[Enitoni]

Ah, my bad. I forgot it will pipe the actual audio into your stdout. Try running it with >/dev/null at the end.

[FQQD]

okay, it works fine in the log. i think both the time and the latency is correct.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/96952506/235949748-dcde4f4e-483a-45b5-980c-934eddafff42.mp4

[Enitoni]

Okay yeah, so my suspicions were right. You have a locale on your system that changes the delimiter in Time to a comma. But pulseshitter expects that to be a period. I think this is similar to https://github.com/Enitoni/pulseshitter/issues/7

Could you try setting the environment variable (mentioned in that issue) and seeing if that changes the delimiter to a period? You could even try running pulseshitter with that environment variable like so LC_NUMERIC=C ./pulseshitter and see if that makes it display the time correctly.

[FQQD]

ah. it works. is it possible for you to make it compatible with other locales or something? otherwise, i'll just run with the fix.

[Enitoni]

This is an easy fix, it's the same fix as https://github.com/Enitoni/pulseshitter/issues/7 but applied to the parec process instead.

[Enitoni]

Fixed by https://github.com/Enitoni/pulseshitter/commit/06670f9beee363f052cc5011413fb92b7ca82dc4