Visualisations - API

[sub]

Can you play a file, then zip and attach your gbpvr.exe.log?

[psycik]

I switched to Blue Skin.
Used the default Music Library.

I can probably see the line causing the problem:

Code:

8/12/2005 17:09:59.499    ERROR    [2]    Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="Inset"]

Have added the following to Blue/Music Library/Skin.xml in the special Elements

Code:

<SpecialElement name="Inset" loc="13,275" size="130,105"/>

And still it complains

[psycik]

Ahh, my error message I found is distracting, that's the inset missing from the MainMenu/skin.xml.

[sub]

...and you dont get visualisations for net radio (or FM radio), since windows media player wont play the in progress recordings I use for these. Try playing a normal MP3 file.

[psycik]

no I wasn't trying net radio at all. just a normal mp3 I have here on the system. Just a blank box in music library, and now a blank box on the main menu.

I'm on .14

Hmm, goes now. I opened up Media Player, it was set to no visualisations. I told it to use one. Played a song, exited media play. Then went back in to GBPVR, start a song and bingo.

That useMediaPlayer thing triggered me off.

[sub]

Ah, there you go then.

[psycik]

and now funnily enough, it works on mine :-)

Thanks sub.

[A_Brass]

I too had to open WMP and change my visualisations from none, to get this to work. As soon as I did it worked perfectly.

Nice feature, looks good on main menu of the Contour skin, as Sub suggested.
My son (2ys old) was totaly mesmerized. It kept him staring for at least 20minutes.

[psycik]

My plugin loooks purty now!!!!

Even have a little visualisation running down inthe bottom corner.

[KingArgyle]

Something to think about for the future, but there are several alternatives for visualizations besides having to use Windows Media Player. Any way, here is one such link, but not sure how compatible it is with the direction that sub wants to go in this area.

http://visuals.free.vovoid.com/vsx_platform.e

It offers an open source API that can be used to generate visualizations without the need for windows media player.