[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] VLevel 0.5

[Steve Harris]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:12:08PM -0500, Tom Felker wrote:
> VLevel is written in C++.  I have two questions.  First, why do most
> other plugins allocate and free copies of their strings and structures,
> instead of just passing the literal (as I do)?

Because thats what the example one does. As it stands theres no good
reason to, but it makes internationalisation easier.

> Second, I keep a buffer of length n in my code, so the first n seconds
> of data I return is useless, and after the audio is sent, I need n more
> seconds of input before all the audio is returned.  Is there any way of
> informing the host about this?

No, we have discussed it though. Something like a well-knows control out
port with specified semantics would do it.
 
> In the future I plan to make some performance improvements, and perhaps
> a nice cross-platform GUI for applying VLevel to files.  I may also try
> to get XMMS-LADSPA to save its state, which would be very useful to me. 

Try contacting the author, he has been thinking about this, but I dont
think hes started work on it.

- Steve