vu-meter / spectrum analyzer

cyberv · Post by **cyberv** » February 26th, 2005, 4:07 pm

We were talking about making a spectrum and vu-meter plugin that reads the values of the wav-line..

clansley was thinking this would take way to much CPU power.. I just noticed that the latest version of the nforce drivers (drivers for the nvidia nothbridge chipset) includes a program called nvmixer (nvmixer.exe) this program shows a onscreen spectrum and vu-meter.. The program takes 0% CPU and it works for movies, music, and all kinds of content (havent tried AC3 sound yet).... Anyone with better multimedia knowledge then me can help me inplent this in a plugin?

cyberv · Post by **cyberv** » February 27th, 2005, 2:13 pm

i've steped over this API... i think it can do what i want..

http://www.fmod.org/

but its not very well documented, anyone with experience from it?

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » February 27th, 2005, 9:47 pm

looks promising

cyberv · Post by **cyberv** » March 1st, 2005, 7:33 pm

i've posted a thread in their forum.. but havent recived any feedback :/

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » March 2nd, 2005, 4:26 am

I downloaded the API last night and looked at it a bit, looks kinda confusing.

I am trying to make a AIM plugin, mainly to tell who is online and if you have any messages. That is confusing as well.

cyberv · Post by **cyberv** » March 4th, 2005, 1:09 pm

well yea.. its kinda confusing.. but im hoping in some way to read the values from the record channel (the user sets the record device to the wave channel) this will be possible...

dcpnn · Post by **dcpnn** » December 7th, 2006, 7:33 pm

Hi Cyberdev,

I have been interested in obtaining a Spectrum Analyzer plugin to use with LCD Smartie myself.

The only solution I have found so far uses a winamp plugin to output this data to LCD Smartie.

I have come up with a slight work around. I use the line-in 'monitor' feature plug-in for winamp to Monitor the 'windows sound mapper (direct sound)' and then I can in turn use the visualization plugin for LCD Smartie to get the spectrum all through winamp. Again this is the only way I have found you can get a spectrum from non-winamp programs.

Wondered if you had been able to come up with anything else?

bickyb · Post by **bickyb** » February 12th, 2007, 7:54 am

dcpnn,
Can you please post a link to the "line-in 'monitor' feature plug-in" that you are referring to below. I realize your approach is a workaround, but it seems like one that will allow me to display a spectrum analyzer for anything in windows!

novolo · Post by **novolo** » September 16th, 2009, 4:09 am

this owuld be interesting... any progress? any new plugins like this?

vu-meter / spectrum analyzer

vu-meter / spectrum analyzer

Spectrum Analyzer

"line-in 'monitor' feature plug-in"

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