On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> Hi > >>>> Do you need an option to select a different >>>> meter type than "vu" when starting meterbridge? >>> >>> It would probably be nice. The VUs look good but they take up a fair amount >>> of real estate and trying to monitor 8 at once can be a bit tricky. In >>> addition, one can miss clipping with a VU (although this can be addressed to >>> a point with the addition of a clip indicator). I normally use "dpm" for my >>> purposes. However, everyone has their own preferences and different >>> situations call for different metering, so an option to select this is >>> probably the way to go. >> : >>>> I wasn't sure whether I should show a dB meter, or just show the linear >>>> float 0.0-1.0 value. Since I'm more used to pure float, and that it was >>>> straight forward to implement, I chose the latter, but maybe someone >>>> really would prefer a dB meter instead? >>> >>> Personally I'd prefer a dB value since that's what I'm used to dealing with. >>> Again, having an option to select between linear float and dB would keep >>> everyone happy. >> >> Yeah, it makes sense. I stole some code from meterbridge to convert from >> linear to dB, and have just uploaded jack_capture V0.9.12, which also >> contains >> an option to change meterbridge meter type. > > Sounds good. Thanks for this - it should make some worthwhile features even > more useful. I've just grabbed 0.9.12 and will give it a go as soon as I > can. > Perhaps download 0.9.13 as well since I forgot to update --help in 0.9.12, plus that I have added peak indicators to 0.9.13. ;-) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
