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lv2bench(1)

benchmark installed and supported LV2 plugins

NAME

lv2bench – benchmark installed and supported LV2 plugins

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

SEE ALSO

AUTHORS

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

History

--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).