Feature Request: Add an audio monitor

[chrishobcroft]

Current experience

Currently, the UI for justcast.it is very minimalist and simple:

• Monitor of the moving pictures captured by the camera
• A big circular button for start streaming / stop streaming
• A rectangular button to switch to sharing a screen

This is a great basic set of features. Except something important is missing.

Proposed enhancement

This issue proposes to add the following option for the UI:

• Monitor of the sound wave captured by the microphone

This may take the form of e.g. a green bar (e.g. colour #00eb87 - one of Livepeer's original "official" colours) which reacts when the microphone detects audio.

If the audio captured is stereo (e.g. from a smartphone with stereo mics, or a computer with a stereo audio input / sound card), this may take the form of two (2) green bars, one for each channel.

If the audio goes above 90%, perhaps it could turn yellow, and if it peaks out at 100%, perhaps it could turn red. But now I'm getting too deep into UI design. Here is some inspiration for the reader:

Further Enhancements

As surround-sound audio capture becomes more prevalent (e.g. to better enable immersive livestream VR playback experiences, or for Consumers with surround-sound speaker systems), it may be necessary to define more sophisticated ways to indicate audio levels for five (5), seven (7) or more audio channels.

For example, Ubuntu already allows configuration of audio playback using surround-sound on supported devices (I'm not aware of whether it already allows configuration of audio capture using surround-sound devices):

[victorges]

Moved to victorges#39