Dummy's guide for Foobar and Milkdrop vis?

[jcruse]

I searched the forums and I know it's possible. I read some of the posts by dgemily (sp?), but found them a little cryptic (not to mention the links he posted are no longer active).

What do I need to get milkdrop working in Foobar?
How do I display full-screen milkdrop from within Xlobby?

Much thanks to anyone who can help!

[jowaldo]

Isn't milkdrop just a winamp plugin? I could be totally wrong on that one. About making it fullscreen, I just remember configuring milkdrop itself to do that.

I honestly don't use it much, but I do have it in my skin tho.

[dgemily]

Isn't milkdrop just a winamp plugin? I could be totally wrong on that one.

"foo_vis_bacon is a foobar2000 plugin for loading Winamp visualizations"
the link that I gave in my post did move:
here is the new one: http://www.msu.edu/~singergr/bacon.html

About making it fullscreen, I just remember configuring milkdrop itself to do that.

yep

Later,

[edbag4]

dgemily:
Thank you very much for showing how to setup milkdrop with foobar. I love milkdrop but I find that foobar sounds much better than winamp on my system. I was able to get milkdrop working with xlobby (HeavymetalX...thanks badda) but I cam not getting it to display quite correctly on my screen. I am running 1280x720 and even when I used winamp I had to set it up to run "fake fullscreen" to cover the entire screen. What I am seeing now is the same as when I used winamp without fake screen enabled, about 4" on the left of my 105" screen is black, like the entire image shifted 4". If I run winamp with fake fullscreen it works fine. My question is, is there any way for the foobar vis bacon to utilize the milkdrop setting in winamp?

Thanks again!

Ed

[dgemily]

thanks, but the documentation here is not from me C-moi wrote it. so now he have to do the support lol

no seriously, how do you use a "fake fullscreen" ? I'm understanding is a winamp setting ?

I didn't try with that resolution and didn't try with winamp too , but you can built a fake fullscreen with xmovewindow :
- create a new blank screen, add a xmovewindow zone with X:0, Y:0, W:1280, H:720 .
- add a new button behind this zone ( it's not necessarybut you can rezize it with the same format 1280*720 ).
- check "default" for this button (tab item/Default from the skin editor).
- assign this button to an new event with the command to launch/close visualization and an other command to close this screen.
- then replace the event assigned to the button of your screen that it start the visualization on fullscreen by an other with a command "go to" to this new screen, and other to launch/close visualization .

so now, when you press the button to start visualization you will see a new screen in fact a new "fake fullscreen" then you have to press enter or what ever you use, to close the visualization and go back to the initial screen.

later,

[edbag4]

Thanks dgemily and my apologies to cmoi (thanks as well).

I tried your suggestions however the issue remains the same. I believe it may have something to do with the way my projector scales to 1280x720 (it is native 800x600). Even winamp shows up the same way for 1280x720, it only fills the screen when I utilize the fake fullscreen setting in milkdrop. This will work for me until someone codes milkdrop for foobar.

Thanks again!!
Ed

[cwellsaz]

You can setup a fake screen with in winamp vis settings for milkdrop.