lv2bench(1)

lv2bench1

Benchmark installed and supported lv2 plugins

Usage

lv2bench [-hV] [-b block_size] [-n frames] [-s buffers] [--help] [--version]

Overview

lv2bench runs a simple benchmark of installed LV2 plugins. The results are written to stdout as a simple tab-delimited table.

The options are as follows:

-V, --version

Print version information and exit.

-b, --block frames

Block length to run, in audio frames.

-h, --help

Print usage information and exit.

-n, --length frames

Total number of frames to process, excluding any pre-roll buffers given by -s.

-s, --skip buffers

Skip a number of buffers before recording timings.

Exit status

lv2bench exits with a status of 0, or non-zero if an error occurred.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

--block since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --length since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --skip since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -s since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

--full until Debian 13 (Trixie); -f until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Authors

lv2bench is a part of lilv, by David Robillard ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From lilv-tools 0.28.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.