[LAD] jack meterbridge 0.9.2 update / maintenance

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

On 7/29/19 8:44 PM, Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 7/29/19 8:21 PM, Stephan Bourgeois wrote:
> 
>> Should meterbridge be maintained or should another metering app de bundled
>> with jack?
> 
> Given that jack is cross-platform and meterbridge is a X11 application
> it's not very likely to be bundled with jack itself.
> 
> The main use-case for meterbridge is the dpm mode with many channels to
> check input activity.
> 
> You may also want to have a look at
> https://lists.linuxaudio.org/archives/linux-audio-dev/2012-June/032475.html
> - the debian package applied this, but it never reached upstream, it's
> likely not relevant after your re-work either.

A better candidate to be bundled with JACK would be 
https://github.com/njh/jackmeter (although I tend to prefer jack_capture 
/dev/null, b/c it does multiple channels). A simple command line meter 
for troubleshooting would be great. But ballistics are of secondary 
importance, this is more to check if it's alive. That also means it 
should go down to -100dB or so.

That said, a "signal present" indicator would help in all patchbay 
applications such as patchage and qjackctl (switchable of course to not 
waste resources when not needed).


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