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Infinity Visualization Plugin
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Plugin for [Audacious](http://audacious-media-player.org/) player that generates light effects
according to a playing sound.
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![Screenshot of Infinity](https://a.fsdn.com/con/app/proj/infinity-plugin/screenshots/Infinity.png)
Requirements
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- Audacious >= 3.5
- Audclient >= 3.5 (Audacious D-BUS remote control library)
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- 1.0.6 <= SDL < 2
- Glib >= 2.8
- Gtk+ >= 2.8
Install
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- ./configure --prefix=/usr (or whatever your prefix is)
- make
- sudo make install
Run
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- start Audacious
- enter menu View -> Visualizations
- mark Infinity
- play your favorite songs
To enter/leave Full-Screen mode press Tab key.
Add New Effects
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- Build with --enable-debug and install
- Run Audacious on console
- Go to interactive mode (see next section) and experiment
- Press key 'm' for saving current effect to disk (will persist amongst Audacious sessions)
Modes
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The plugin has two modes. Default is Non-Interactive.
**Non-Interactive Mode**:
States and palettes periodically switches in a random sequence.
If you run Audacity from a terminal the following command keys will display on
terminal when Infinity loads:
Keys:
- Space: change effect
- Tab: toggle full-screen
- Up/Down: up/down audacity main volume
- Left/Right: reward/forward actual played song, if any
- z: previous song
- x: play
- c: pause
- v: stop
- b: next song
- Enter: switch to interactive mode
(works only if infinity was configured with --enable-debug option)
- F11: screenshot
- F12: change palette
**Interactive Mode**:
You can control the effects using keys:
- F12: change palette
- Tab: toggle full-screen
- Enter: switch to non-interactive mode
- F1-F10: choose transformation vector field
- a,z: change curve 1 lighting
- q,s: change curve 2 lighting
- e,r: change curve 1 amplitude
- d,f: change curve 2 amplitude
- w: change curve 2 type
- m: persist current effect
- mouse: change curve 2 position
- F11: screenshot
Known Bugs
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As of 0.8.0beta1 the settings window and the about dialog does not work.
If you have problems finding locale.h header file, try to configure with
--disable-nls option.
In Ubuntu systems over AMD64 architectures, try running configure with
--prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
If you found a bug please report it at
<https://github.com/dprotti/infinity-plugin/issues>.
Authors
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- Julien Carme (c) 2000 Original author
- Duilio Protti (C) 2004 - Present : Current maintainer
- CBke (C) 2016 <https://github.com/CBke> Nice patches
- John Lightsey (C) 2004 <john@nixnuts.net> Portability fixes and GPL License compliance
- Jean Delvare (C) 2004 <khali@linux-fr.org> Some nice patches
- Will Tatam (C) 2004 <wtatam@premierit.com> Online source RPMs <http://apt.premierithosting.com/FC2/i386/SRPMS.premierit/>
- Haavard Kvaalen (C) 2000 <havardk@xmms.org> Converted original hand made Makefile to automake/autoconf/libtool
- Chris Lea (C) 2000 <chrislea@luciddesign.com> Made RPMs
- Mitja Horvat (C) 2000 <Mitja.Horvat@hermes.si> Misc optimisations
Old Versions
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Releases older than 0.8.0beta1 can be found at Sourceforge: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/infinity-plugin/>
Contributions
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Your help is welcome, either coding, translating or building binary (distro)
packages.