xmms-goom problems on ubuntu

[Michael Salcher]

I've tried Amarok 1.3.9 and 1.4.1. Neither of them lists any libvisual 
visualizations and neither of them works with xmms-goom.

Andrew Turner wrote:
> I can't speak for Goom as I've never tried it, but there has recently
> been a bug fixed with Amarok's libvisual support - so recently it is
> not in any released version. I think though that that bug might not
> affect any Amarok version before 1.4.1, as new versions of Amarok use
> libvisual 0.4 whereas older versions used 0.2.
> 
> In any case, should you be running the default version of Amarok that
> ships with Dapper, I would suggest you maybe try upgrading, although
> remembering that 1.4.1 does have broken libvisual support, if you care
> about it. Packages are available at www.kubuntu.org. Even if it
> doesn't fix your Goom problems, you will still get a shiny new Amarok.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On 19/07/06, Michael Salcher <mike at sukkulent.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm running Ubuntu Dapper and having trouble getting Goom (visualization
>> plugin) to work. I've installed Xmms and xmms-goom, Goom works fine with
>> Xmms, but when I select it in Amarok, the Goom window comes up, displays
>> the first frame and then freezes. Other Xmms visualization plugings
>> (like xmms-jess or xmms-infinite) work.
>>
>> Does anyone have Gooom working with Amarok on Ubuntu?
>> Or what about libvisual? That does not seem to work either on Ubuntu.
>>
>> cheers
>> Michael
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