How to handle audio-card buffer

Question

Im trying to do a screen-flashing application that flashes the screen depending on the audio(like an audio visualizer, but instead of a visualization like bars or something like that, just flash the screen).

I already made the music player and know how to make the widget get full screen and change color(which will flash), but I dont know how to detect the (I think it's audio-card)buffer is full, because when it is full I would change the color of the widget, and this would be really super fast, so the screen flashes super quickly. Any ideas on how to detect if the buffer is full, or any other approach I might pursue to achieve my goal?

Thanks beforehand.

Answer 1

Have you checked the SoundMixer Class computeSpectrum method? It doesn't give you a buffer info rather it returns info about the sound being played that you can use in order to represent the sound graphically.