Re: [Savonet-users] Monitoring signal levels

[Romain B. <to...@ra...>]

Hi Derek!

2012/7/7 Derek Shaw <de...@so...>:
> A general question, I was using liquidsoap a few days ago for a public
> event in Chelsea the application itself ran smoothly and without
> complication. I was in addition able to record the stream and hand
> these to our hosts.
>
> What did arise though was a need to monitor the input levels for
> linein as we had no real way of telling what level the audio was
> coming in at, perhaps I should have normalised signal.
>
> Anyway Liquidsoap is not a GUI and thankfully so, I was wondering then
> if there was an easy way to add a line of code that could monitor the
> audio levels in line in. I guess I could use jack and this is an
> option but I have used jack in the past which crashed on numerous
> occasions so do not favour this option without a great deal more
> testing.

We have a volume.visu operator, using SDL output:
  http://liquidsoap.fm/doc-1.0.1/reference.html#visu_volume
Maybe that could fit your needs?

Romain