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[bounty] $400 fix audio device randomly stopping sometimes
display audio / microphone randomly stops on mac sometimes
had it running for 48h now and display audio somehow stopped a bit later after 50h
/bounty 400
@EzraEllette any idea?
i suggest finding way to reproduce and then some automated test and a fix
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@louis030195 The only possible explanation that i can find for this issue is that macos screen capture permissions can be revoked or timeout after a long period. this is a security feature of macos. when this happens, the audio stream silently fails.
Kindly, can put any logs when it crashed at 50th hour. Any one who might have reproduced this issue. it would be helpful. otherwise i think its bit like searching the needle in haystack.
Kindly, can put any logs when it crashed at 50th hour. Any one who might have reproduced this issue. it would be helpful. otherwise i think its bit like searching the needle in haystack.
agree, usually for me it stops after night of sleep or every 2 days
What’s the main component or framework the project uses? I want to find related issues in other projects." "I don’t think it’s a problem with the project itself — it might be something else, possibly a compatibility issue with macOS.
it's only on mac i think - it runs for weeks on my windows
a simple fix would be a piece of code that just restart the audio recording at a high level every 20 hours for example
although i had issue to make this reliable itself myself (there are so many edge cases?)
some more questions:
- is the recording process stll running and audio or display not recording?
- or os also killing the running process?
Thanks.
if recording process is stil running we can add a logic in audio manager to try start aquire the respective device again. instead of silently failing. we retry and fail then even we can restart.
