Milkdrop in WIndows 7 64

**darcilicious** · August 16th, 2010, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by judgeschambers

I don't understand how this affects stuck visualizations? Please explain.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the use of "stuck".

Milkdrop as some I don't know, 20 or 30 different "styles" of visualizations, right? Presets, I think. When people say they get "stuck", I'm assuming it has stopped rotating through the different styles.

Or are folks talking about something else entirely?

What I'm talking about is a) viewing the list all the styles (presets), b) selecting one, and c) locking to that style that it doesn't rotate through them all any more.

"p" used to display the list and "l" (as in 'el') would lock it.

**judgeschambers** · August 16th, 2010, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by darcilicious

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the use of "stuck".

Milkdrop as some I don't know, 20 or 30 different "styles" of visualizations, right? Presets, I think. When people say they get "stuck", I'm assuming it has stopped rotating through the different styles.

Yeah it's stuck on one of the 20-30 different styles and does not rotate. I have to go back a screen to trigger boxee to rotate to the next one style in the rotation.

Hell, I did not know you could control them with the keys you mentioned. I'll have to tinker with that.

Thanks.

**darcilicious** · August 16th, 2010, 10:14 PM

The "p" and "l" keyboard mappings were removed from the latest version so you'll need to add them back in C:\Program Files\Boxee\system\keymaps\keyboard.xml

Somewhere around line 195 add the <p> and <l> stuff and comment out the RunScript stuff:

Code:

  <Visualisation>
    <keyboard>
      <period>SkipNext</period>
      <comma>SkipPrevious</comma>
      <return>Info</return>
      <backspace>FullScreen</backspace>
      <escape>FullScreen</escape>
      <enter>ActivateWindow(MusicOSD)</enter>
      <i>Info</i>
      <!-- l>RunScript(q:\scripts\Lyrics\default.py)</l-->
      <p>ActivateWindow(VisualisationPresetList)</p>
      <l>LockPreset</l>
      <left>SkipPrevious</left>
      <right>SkipNext</right>
      <up>VolumeUp</up>
      <down>VolumeDown</down>
      <escape>FullScreen</escape>
    </keyboard>
  </Visualisation>
  <MusicOSD>
    <keyboard>
      <escape>Close</escape>
      <f>FastForward</f>
      <r>Rewind</r>
      <period>SkipNext</period>
      <comma>SkipPrevious</comma>
      <m>Close</m>
      <i>Info</i>
      <o>CodecInfo</o>
      <p>ActivateWindow(VisualisationPresetList)</p>
      <v>ActivateWindow(VisualisationSettings)</v>
      <n>ActivateWindow(MusicPlaylist)</n>
    </keyboard>
  </MusicOSD>
  <VisualisationSettings>
    <keyboard>
      <escape>Close</escape>
      <period>SkipNext</period>
      <comma>SkipPrevious</comma>
      <return>Info</return>
      <m>Close</m>
      <i>Info</i>
      <o>CodecInfo</o>
      <p>ActivateWindow(VisualisationPresetList)</p>
      <left>SkipPrevious</left>
      <right>SkipNext</right>
    </keyboard>
  </VisualisationSettings>

**judgeschambers** · August 17th, 2010, 05:56 AM

Really? I use "I" all the time on my 594 builds to see video info. I guess I still don't understand how "I" affect visualizations...

Never used "P" though as I did not know it even existed to cycle through visualizations. So, you say the P function is broken in 594 build? Can I copy your setting and get it to work?

**darcilicious** · August 17th, 2010, 09:16 AM

Not "I" but "L" (aka "el" as I posted before).

The post above yours has the info you need so I'm not sure what else you're asking for?

**schomin** · August 17th, 2010, 06:08 PM

Ok finally got this working.

Do you happen to know what version of milkdrop this is? ie. does it support 2.0 presets?

**darcilicious** · August 17th, 2010, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by schomin

Do you happen to know what version of milkdrop this is? ie. does it support 2.0 presets?

No idea but if you update C:\Program Files\Boxee\system\keymaps\keyboard.xml like I posted above, you can see exactly what presets are available by using the p key on the keyboard when music is playing.

**judgeschambers** · August 17th, 2010, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by darcilicious

Not "I" but "L" (aka "el" as I posted before).

The post above yours has the info you need so I'm not sure what else you're asking for?

Never mind. I did not realize these keys had dual function status depending upon what media was being played. Had no idea these keys controlled visualizations.

I'll update mine and see what happens.

I just toggle the \ key to get the visuals to change. But I noticed I get more options on XP than Win-7....