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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: idea to improve the peak meter reliabilityRE: idea to improve the peak meter reliability
From: Henri DAVID <hdavid_at_mail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:33:09 +0200 A good solution could be to provide a way for this user to choose between the two version of the peakmeter, in the menu or by making two items available in WPS config file, %PM and %FPM (fast Peakmeter) I think if it explained in WPS doc, average users can understand that fast VU drain more power than a normal one that drains even more than no VU at all. and if they don't, will they notice the battery lifetime difference anyway ?? ;) henri > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:44:10 -0700, Jack Peel <jhp_at_cypress.com> wrote: > > >Phil, > > > >It would be nice to have this as an option for those of us who would like > >the meter to be more accurate, maybe even create it as a compile option, > >or a simple patch. The best of course would be a menu setting that > >switched between the two modes, but that might be a little much work > >as it sounds like it involves code in several different places. > > I can do that if it is really what we want. It's not very problematic. > The biggest problem is how to explain the average user the difference > of: > no peak meter == save energy > normal peak meter == waste a little energy > precise peak meter == waste a little more energy > > And I must admit that I didn't do any measurements wether all this > energy wasting topic is relevant at all. > > >Also did you ever get the peak meter to display in dB ? Or has > this simply > >lost interest ? > > Thanks to Andreas Zwirtes there already is the patch for dBfs display, > which includes scaling (alias 'zooming') the meter: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=620920&gr oup_id=44306&atid=439120 Phil Received on 2002-10-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |