Re: [linux-audio-dev] JACK Meterbridge

Steve Harris wrote: wow, nice. it works for me. i could even fire up all three at once, without problems: meterbridge -t vu alsa_pcm:in_1 alsa_pcm:in_2 & meterbridge -t ppm alsa_pcm:in_1 alsa_pcm:in_2 & meterbridge -t dpm alsa_pcm:in_1 alsa_pcm:in_2 & oh ye wonders of jack. otoh, my system load is about 1.7, with both cpus peaking at 75%, with a roughly estimated average of 50% (from a quick glance at xosview, fwiw). oops, forget that. i was using ssh-tunneled xterms, and sshd accounts for most of the load. the meterbridges do not exceed 10% each. i'm a little puzzled by the vu meter, though. why do i have to set it to -12 ? if i do it looks ok, but why ? 12 db headroom for digital systems ? out of curiosity, what would it show if i feed it maximum energy, i.e. consecutive +/-max samples ? the ppm is fun. i never saw one of those. still getting used to it. i want a color-chooser dialog for the dpm. and a knob for contrast and one for decay time. (runs) :-D thanks for yet another useful piece of code... jörn -- Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)