Added support for Visualizations using VSXu

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Konrad Zemek <konrad.zemek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10.09.2013 13:22, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Dinesh <saidinesh5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Finally done adding support for Visualizations using VSXu.(!!!)
>>>
>>> In order to test this out,
>>> first install a patched version of VSXu from the branch amarok-fixes
>>> from:
>>> https://github.com/vovoid/vsxu/tree/amarok-fixes
>>>
>>> Then compile the branch: vsxu from:
>>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Famarok%2Fdineshm%2Famarok-vsxu.git
>>>
>>> Or simply apply these patches on top of Amarok master.
>>> Amarok should automatically search for libvsxu and enable the vsxu plugin
>>> at
>>> compile time.
>>
>> Yesterday I spent a couple of hours with Dinesh trying getting this
>> working. There were a couple of build issues we had to iron out first.
>> When I got it to build, I was running into another issue: The VSXu
>> applet was just showing a black square on my box, no matter what was
>> playing. We could not figure out what's wrong yet (could be an issue
>> with my Intel driver, or something else).
>>
>> If any of you folks want to try it too, that would be great, so we can
>> see if the problem is reproducible elsewhere. If you have any build
>> issues we can help.
>>
> My experience is very much the same.
>
> I had problems with FindVSXU.cmake; I cry your pardon if you already
> resolved these. First, it searches for vsxu_platform.h and I believe that
> should be vsx_platform.h . Second, my includes/vsxu directory has
> subdirectories in it, so e.g. "#include <vsx_manager.h>" causes a
> compilation error, because the header is not *directly* in the directory
> found by CMake.
>
> After I compiled, I get a black square when something is playing. FWIW, I'm
> using nVidia proprietary drivers.

Thanks a lot for testing, Konrad. Just to be sure: Did you use the
Phonon-GStreamer backend?

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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