$ LANG=en_US gst-launch-0.10 "alsasrc ! audioconvert ! level name=recordlevel interval=10000000 ! audioconvert ! wavenc ! filesink location=/tmp/test.wav" Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Pipeline is live and does not need PREROLL ... Setting pipeline to PLAYING ... New clock: GstAudioSrcClock ERROR: from element /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAlsaSrc:alsasrc0: Internal data flow error. Additional debug info: gstbasesrc.c(2625): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstPipeline:pipeline0/GstAlsaSrc:alsasrc0: streaming task paused, reason not-linked (-1) Execution ended after 16955651 ns. Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... Setting pipeline to READY ... Setting pipeline to NULL ... Freeing pipeline ... $ LANG=en_US apt-cache show gstreamer0.10-plugins-base Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 2174 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers