Question: Is there a way to retrieve audio samples in GPU Shader code?

[proconsule]

Is there any chance to have audio sample float (in some way) accessible in the user shader code, this will help making cool shaders for audio playback (like old winamp vis plugins).

I know this is hard (buffer, sync and other problems) but will open great scenarios on making players based on mpv

[Traneptora]

Shaders run on a GPU, are you perhaps referring to audio filters? You can use that with --af=.

[CounterPillow]

no, he is referring to wanting to access audio sample data in a gpu shader to do visualisations

[proconsule]

no, he is referring to wanting to access audio sample data in a gpu shader to do visualisations

Yes is what i mean, i know it is hard but can open cool scenarios on audio player using libmpv

[kasper93]

I think it would be not so trivial to support. Patches welcome if someone wants to deep dive into it.