Boxee 1.0 Milkdrop Visualizer

[dasuberes]

is milkdrop in v1.0 or was it also one of the great features that were dropped? if it was, any plans to bring it back?

[Vandetta]

is milkdrop in v1.0 or was it also one of the great features that were dropped? if it was, any plans to bring it back?

http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=21778

Seems like it was dropped. Milkdrop is the best visualizer there is- is there no visualizer in 1.0?

Also I think this is the wrong section*

[judgeschambers]

Milkdrop was removed. No info on why...

[vixhex]

Was MilkDrop in Boxee Box .9 or not? Not sure if some posts are referring to the beta or the Box.

I'd love to have MilkDrop . . . been running it with Winamp for years and was stoked to see it in the beta. Got the BB now and was hoping to see it there, too.

[l0th]

My theory: BB is underpowered and can't run Milkdrop properly. When running Boxee 0.9 on my older PC, milkdrop would make the whole thing stall.

[Vandetta]

They could just drop the frame rate to make it run. The hardware was pretty good from what I read on engadget.

So what happens when play music on BBox? Black screen or album art?

[l0th]

there's only one option (waveform is gone as well): a colorful 3D equalizer that you can see on the video of the launch event. I think I remember this was one of the viz already available in 0.9

[vixhex]

the BB is about the same specs as my Acer Aspire Revo 1600 and it ran MilkDrop nicely. I really hope they bring it back. If it can run a 1080p MKV with DTS surround, I think it can handle MilkDrop. I know thats not a 1:1 comparison, but hey . . .

[l0th]

well, on my old htpc boxee could play ripped VOBs fine but lagged like crazy when displaying milkdrop. Whatever the problem was I think they took the easiest route and got rid of milkdrop.

[leecming]

I've been examining the BB file system and noticed the existence of opengl_spectrum.vis in /opt/boxee/visualisations. It looks like in theory someone could copy open the projectm vis files and drop it there.