[vlc-devel] [PATCHv2 2/9] aout: add the vlc_audio_meter API

[Thomas Guillem]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, at 08:09, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> On 2020-08-19 21:25, Thomas Guillem wrote:
> > This API will be used by the aout, and could be used by any visualisation
> > module needing audio measurements.
> > 
> > This API allows to create "audio meter" filters plugins. This new type of
> > filter is measuring audio blocks without modifying them and send the
> > measurement via audio filters callbacks. These events are then propagated to
> > vlc_audio_meter events.
> 
> This doesn't sound very accurate. For example if you pause and play you 
> get a value from blocks that will play in many ms ? 

If you pause and play, you will get a measure with the correct date thanks to the new clock and the fact that the meter is processed just before aout play.

> I would prefer if 
> the meter value could be attached to the block or at least sent as a 
> timed stream (a new ES type ?).

We can do that in the future but there is now 0 use case for that. The main usecase for the meter is to propagate it to the UI. 
It can be used by a visualization module too if it spawn manually a meter.

> It could be turned to SPU accurately if 
> you want to display them. That makes visualization totally independent 
> of the metering algorithm.
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