Salutations,
Maybe i could have posted this in the Laptops/Netbooks area since it's about the microphone/camera set, or even Linux Hardware.
It's about attempts to visualize audio captured in real time using an application like 'Measure', published by Sugar Labs Community and available as a FlatPack from FlatHub, actually added to launcher menus as an "Education" item for kids...
At first i tried VLC Media Player and its audio visualization features but this worked on pre-existing records only, so i started looking for alternatives and yet found that a program like Cavalier/CAVA didn't help besides being huge, while Qmmp only offers some sort of super-tiny VU-meter, or SimpleScreenRecorder suffered similar limitations to VLC, etc.
Measure is described as a teaching tool which can display computer audio as an X-Y plot, to visualize in time/frequency domains in the manner of some oscilloscope.
My querry is double:
Linux will let me mute a microphone if i go to its sound settings manager, i can live with that.
Being unable to visualize in real time using VLC is a bit more annoying because i preferred its selection of visualizer models, so i post here today in case there's another viable option i may have overlooked beside bulky XBMC/Kodi stuff or whatever, for example.
The goal is to visually monitor sound signals in a large obvious way to assist in situations when audio is faint and less noticeable than a big splash on my screen. Recordings are desirable as a SECONDARY fonction but it has to reflect microphone/line events as they occur.
Good day, have fun!!
Maybe i could have posted this in the Laptops/Netbooks area since it's about the microphone/camera set, or even Linux Hardware.
It's about attempts to visualize audio captured in real time using an application like 'Measure', published by Sugar Labs Community and available as a FlatPack from FlatHub, actually added to launcher menus as an "Education" item for kids...
At first i tried VLC Media Player and its audio visualization features but this worked on pre-existing records only, so i started looking for alternatives and yet found that a program like Cavalier/CAVA didn't help besides being huge, while Qmmp only offers some sort of super-tiny VU-meter, or SimpleScreenRecorder suffered similar limitations to VLC, etc.
Measure is described as a teaching tool which can display computer audio as an X-Y plot, to visualize in time/frequency domains in the manner of some oscilloscope.
My querry is double:
#1) Having initially disabled the camera/microphone set on my LapTop/NoteBook via their BiOS/UEFi i discovered it still didn't mute their microphones!
#2) Microphone/line signals ain't accessible using VLC although i'd have sweared it once worked many years ago.
Linux will let me mute a microphone if i go to its sound settings manager, i can live with that.
Being unable to visualize in real time using VLC is a bit more annoying because i preferred its selection of visualizer models, so i post here today in case there's another viable option i may have overlooked beside bulky XBMC/Kodi stuff or whatever, for example.
The goal is to visually monitor sound signals in a large obvious way to assist in situations when audio is faint and less noticeable than a big splash on my screen. Recordings are desirable as a SECONDARY fonction but it has to reflect microphone/line events as they occur.
Good day, have fun!!
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