Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] VLevel 0.5

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] VLevel 0.5
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 12:11:01 EEST


On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:12:08PM -0500, Tom Felker wrote:
> VLevel is written in C++. I have two questions. First, why do most
> other plugins allocate and free copies of their strings and structures,
> instead of just passing the literal (as I do)?

Because thats what the example one does. As it stands theres no good
reason to, but it makes internationalisation easier.

> Second, I keep a buffer of length n in my code, so the first n seconds
> of data I return is useless, and after the audio is sent, I need n more
> seconds of input before all the audio is returned. Is there any way of
> informing the host about this?

No, we have discussed it though. Something like a well-knows control out
port with specified semantics would do it.
 
> In the future I plan to make some performance improvements, and perhaps
> a nice cross-platform GUI for applying VLevel to files. I may also try
> to get XMMS-LADSPA to save its state, which would be very useful to me.

Try contacting the author, he has been thinking about this, but I dont
think hes started work on it.

- Steve


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