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diff --git a/tests/examples/level/README b/tests/examples/level/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0ae84188 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/examples/level/README @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +level plugin by thomas <thomas@apestaart.org> + +this plugin signals: + - running time since last EOS/start + - channel + - RMS level + - peak level + - decaying peak level +over the given interval. + +This is useful for a VU meter display and for plotting out the signal graph. +The VU meter can either display RMS, or display immediate peak level and +have the falloff decaying peak level displayed as a line. + +The interval for signal emission, ttl of decay peak, and falloff of decay peak +can all be set. + +The element only takes unsigned data in; it could be extended to signed as +well, if separate fast chain functions are made that displaces the incoming +data to its midpoint (ie, 0,65535 should be mapped to -32768, 32767) + +There are two demo apps, apps and plot. apps will create some GTK sliders +to display the volume. plot will output data readable by gnuplot. + +Here is a sample plot script to plot output of the plot command that was +stored to plot.dat + +set xlabel "Seconds" +set ylabel "dB" +set yrange [-60:0] +plot 'plot.dat' using 1:2 title 'L RMS' with lines, \ + 'plot.dat' using 1:3 title 'L peak' with lines, \ + 'plot.dat' using 1:4 title 'L decay' with lines + +plot 'plot.dat' using 1:5 title 'R RMS' with lines, \ + 'plot.dat' using 1:6 title 'R peak' with lines, \ + 'plot.dat' using 1:7 title 'R decay' with lines + + |