Picture slideshow visualization?

I'm sure most people are already starting music, then starting a picture slideshow. The picture slideshow takes a lot more FPS than it probably needs, but regardless, wouldn't this process be simpler if we could just develop a music visualization that was the picture slideshow? Has anyone tried this? Any ideas where I would start with developing this?

fowie Wrote:I'm sure most people are already starting music, then starting a picture slideshow. The picture slideshow takes a lot more FPS than it probably needs, but regardless, wouldn't this process be simpler if we could just develop a music visualization that was the picture slideshow? Has anyone tried this? Any ideas where I would start with developing this?

yes, I've done this, it's easy, just use the fanart control to make a slideshow...but it can't support the use of exif tags so I can't see my title and comment on this screen, so SlideShow.xml only for me.

Awesome.... what do you mean by fanart control? And what's this slideshow.xml you're talking about? Is that another option I could pursue? I haven't done much XBMC development, so I'm not very familiar with all of the files.

fowie Wrote:Awesome.... what do you mean by fanart control? And what's this slideshow.xml you're talking about? Is that another option I could pursue? I haven't done much XBMC development, so I'm not very familiar with all of the files.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Skinning_XBMC

Hi.

I don't get it. How exactly can I do this? It would be very nice to just have an image slideshow instead of the fancy visualzations. I can always leave the music area and start the slideshow in pictures while still playing music but then the controls and OSD are obviously different...

Thanks,
Philip

PS: I'd also like the spinning globe on the PS3 music visualization. But I guess that's hard to realize in XBMC, isn't it?

Soo, I helped myself and found a solution that works quite well for me:

1. create shortcut to start slideshow with one keypress
in c:\Program Files\XBMC\system\keymaps\keyboard.xml

<f2>SlideShow(C:\TEMP\Wallpapers, random)</f2>
<f3>SlideShow(m:\Bilder\Bilder@Picasa, recursive, random)</f3>

2. modify Playerconrols.xml do display the OSD in the lower right corner

<posx>782</posx>
<posy>505</posy>

now I have an easily accessible picture slideshow with music osd and controls

3. whoever wants fanart in visualization:

in c:\Program Files\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p\MusicVisualization.xml

<control type="image">
<description>visualisation background</description>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<colordiffuse>FFFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
<visible>!Visualisation.Enabled + Player.HasAudio</visible>

<texture fallback="DefaultFanart.jpg">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image)]</texture>
</control>

<control type="image">
<description>visualisation background</description>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<colordiffuse>eeeeeeee</colordiffuse>
<visible>Visualisation.Enabled + Player.HasAudio</visible>

<texture fallback="DefaultFanart.jpg">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image)]</texture> >

</control>

cheers!

nachtzwerg Wrote:Soo, I helped myself and found a solution that works quite well for me:

1. create shortcut to start slideshow with one keypress
in c:\Program Files\XBMC\system\keymaps\keyboard.xml

<f2>SlideShow(C:\TEMP\Wallpapers, random)</f2>
<f3>SlideShow(m:\Bilder\Bilder@Picasa, recursive, random)</f3>

2. modify Playerconrols.xml do display the OSD in the lower right corner

<posx>782</posx>
<posy>505</posy>

now I have an easily accessible picture slideshow with music osd and controls

3. whoever wants fanart in visualization:

in c:\Program Files\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p\MusicVisualization.xml

<control type="image">
<description>visualisation background</description>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<colordiffuse>FFFFFFFF</colordiffuse>
<visible>!Visualisation.Enabled + Player.HasAudio</visible>

<texture fallback="DefaultFanart.jpg">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image)]</texture>
</control>

<control type="image">
<description>visualisation background</description>
<posx>0</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<colordiffuse>eeeeeeee</colordiffuse>
<visible>Visualisation.Enabled + Player.HasAudio</visible>

<texture fallback="DefaultFanart.jpg">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(Fanart_Image)]</texture> >

</control>

cheers!

Will this be valid mod for XBMC Dharma Beta 3? I am noob and dont want to break my working install.

principle of it yes, but you likely have to change some coordinates etc. bit different layout.

any chance to start slideshow as visualization together with music without any shortcuts??I am using startup playlist

Diwiak Wrote:any chance to start slideshow as visualization together with music without any shortcuts??I am using startup playlist

i have browsed through the wiki & the forum, but there does not seem to be a possiblity to have a "slideshow visualization"... unfortunately!

@ devs.... any chance of implementation. I guess, there are quite some people (there are a bunch of threads disucssing the same matter) who would like to see just random pictures from a previously specified folder while listening to music (including myself, hehe )