'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 21/01/11 13:34 did gyre and gimble: > Ahhh. Of course. > > This is an interesting use case. It seems that it would be useful to have a > "sound level" RPC in the PA protocol for things just like a vumeter. Surely > it's much more efficient for the sending side to send "sound level" measure- > ments than to send the actual audio stream for the receiving side to simply > measure. Actually there is. it's a flag when opening the sync for recording, that only does PEAK detect rather than a full read. This should be done in pavucontrol, but IIRC it's not done in pavumeter (because it's really old). >> Do you still see excessive bandwidth usage with pavucontrol (and >> possibly other programs) closed? > > No, I don't. Things are wonderful now. :-) I would like to be able to keep > pavucontrol open though, obviously without the vumeter penalty, hence my > suggestion above. I could probably add a command line switch that disables the vumeters easily enough. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
