qwavsilence1

Usage

Overview

qwavsilence reads a list of wav files looking for silence sequences.

Options

-d <duration>[<format>], --duration=<duration>[<format>]

duration is a positive integer that specifies the minimum duration of a silent sequence on a file to be reported. the value is treated as a sample number unless a format specifier is used. see the FORMATS section below for information. the default value is one second.

-h, --help

show a brief help and exit.

-S, --shrink

when this option is set, all the silent sequences greater than duration will be shrinked down to duration and the file size truncated accordingly.

-t <threshold>, --threshold=<threshold>

threshold is a percentage value respect the maximum (absolute) sample value. samples whose value is under the given threshold are considered silent. for example, a value of 2 means that all samples with absolute value under the 2% will be treated as silent samples. the default value is 0.

-v, --verbose

show more detailed info.

-V, --version

show version and exit.

Formats

the following modifiers are provided:

in either case, the values specified will be rounded to get an integer number of samples.