evacuated-infinity-plugin/README.md

Infinity Visualization Plugin

Plugin for Audacious player that generates light effects according to a playing sound.

Requirements

• Audacious >= 3.5
• Audclient >= 3.5 (Audacious D-BUS remote control library)
• 1.0.6 <= SDL < 2
• Glib >= 2.8
• Gtk+ >= 2.8

Install

• ./configure --prefix=/usr (or whatever your prefix is)
• make
• sudo make install

Run

• start Audacious
• enter menu View -> Visualizations
• mark Infinity
• play your favorite songs

To enter/leave Full-Screen mode press Tab key.

Add New Effects

• 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

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

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

• 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

Releases older than 0.8.0beta1 can be found at Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/infinity-plugin/

Contributions

Your help is welcome, either coding, translating or building binary (distro) packages.