wavcapture does not record silence
This bug has been copied automatically from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1861692
Reported by 'Philippe Mathieu-Daudé' on 2020-02-03 :
Using setup described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1861677 a wav file is generated with all the silences stripped out. IOW silence frames are not recorded.
Information from referenced Launchpad issue:
As of commit 28db64fc, using demo from QEMU advent calendar 2018 day 1: https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2018/download/day01.tar.xz
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc \
-net none -soundhw pcspk \
-drive file=day01/fbird.img,format=raw,if=floppy \
-monitor stdio -S
(qemu) info qtree
bus: main-system-bus
type System
dev: i440FX-pcihost, id ""
bus: pci.0
dev: PIIX3, id ""
bus: isa.0
dev: isa-pcspk, id ""
audiodev = "pa"
iobase = 97 (0x61)
migrate = true
(qemu) wavcapture out.wav pa
(qemu) cont
(qemu) # Press 'up' key in demo
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Edited by John Snow