Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it’s been at least two Windows releases since any new or updated visualizations. Sure, what comes in the box are still visualizations by definition, but I couldn’t consider any of them eye-candy. Recently, a new visualization pack made by two Microsoft employees in their spare time is worth checking out., the designer of the Windows Vista screensavers and, a software engineer on the Office team have come together to release a visualizations pack for Windows Media Player called “”. But don’t worry, no involved.
Windows 10 is getting rid of the Windows Media Player. So you will get Windows 10 Media Player not working. Here is the best solution to solve it. It seems the visualizations were designed for a 32-bit media player (which is the default edition of WMP) - they do not work in the 64-bit WMP or WMC - and it seems the only version of Media Center that ships with 7 x64 is 64-bit.
As a requirement to run these visualizations, you will need a graphics card that supports at least shader model 2.0 (most DirectX 9 graphics cards will), which might seem like a high requirement for visualizers, but how else are you suppose to create visual magic right? By golly these are the sort of neat things that Microsoft employees should be being paid to make. Bundle it with the WMP download and give those chaps a bonus- this provides some much needed rejuvination to the WMP visualizations. If only WMP wasn’t so bloody flawed. The way it puts all mixed-artist-albums under the artist name ‘Various Arists’ when you sort by artist is almost enough to make me swith to iTunes I just want to see ALL my songs damnit. Sorted by artist.
Is that really too much to ask? Thanks for the positive review and comments! To clear some things up: dev time was more like several months’ worth of hobby coding, months and months of tweaking, and a year of bureaucracy.
Talespin hindi all episodes 3gp. Hypnobloom does other colors! Your music is just purple music.
Try some talk radio or bitpop, you’ll get pretty blues and greens. Anon: Yep, they work in wmp11 in XP. Edward: My thoughts exactly ? jhon: do any of the others work? Your video card might not be shadertastic enough. We do all of our blur in hardware so that we don’t chew CPU. What video card do you have?
Matt Sharpe: customisability and extensibility is coming in ver 2. We’ll catch up, and in typical microsoft fashion, probably get it right in ver 3.1 ? •. Deleting the files doesn’t work, they just reinstall themselves the next time I open WMP.
(And by the way there are two separate folders, Visualisations and Visualizations!). I’m running Windows XP Version 5.1 Build 2600, from 2001. I have an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller, I guess that means I don’t have a video card. Hmm, it sounds pretty inadequate, doesn’t it? Your visualizations don’t do their full thing on my WMP, in fact they’re rather dull.
The nature of the crash is that when I choose Hypnobloom Kandinsky from the submenus, the display freezes, and all I see is the submenus. If I go to fullscreen mode, or click on Library and then Now Playing again, they go away.
That’s the only visualization I’ve had that problem with. Slobone: yeah, you should instead go into control panel, then add/remove programs, find ‘next generation visualisations’ in the list, and remove it. The new setup scripts try to repair themselves if their files are deleted. Yep, your card is a dx8 / opengl 1.1 level card. We used dx9.0c / opengl 2.0 – specific features for these.
-phew- I was worried that we were bluescreening/rebooting your machine or managing to take windows down. It sounds like the code is doing the right thing in your case. Sadly, this is unhelpfully boring and frustrating. To attempt to elicit a little sympathy – we thought about adding UI that would pop up and say “your video card isn’t expensive enough”, but if we’d done that, we would have had to translate it for every locale and with no actual budget we couldn’t do that. Hey Guys Downloaded the other day and spent a good half hour playing around with different types of music – best free vis’s available for WMP – well done.
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A couple didn’t work on my business spec lappy (appeared to keep playing the previously selected one) but reading above I gather that’s cos I don’t have a graphics card. Now though, I get a BSOD if I go to the Now Playing tab in WMP – unless it runs in Safe Mode (like when you open it after a crash) any clues? I’ll just uninstall for now. Cheers Dan •. I’m so happy to have some new visualizations in WMP. I had been using Itunes for the last few weeks on my new Comp, b/c I liked it’s vis.
Better.but these just made me switch back to wmp. Also, it appears to use much less CPU time than itunes (I assume b/c of what you said about using hardware accel, vs. Software), so that’s great! PS – current fave is hynobloom -> Delerium Line Assembly Oh, one thing I noticed is that when WMP is maximized to full screen, the hypnobloom Delerium vis. Runs at considerably faster frame rate than when it’s not maximize (even if it is expanded to be as large as possible)just a note.
I actually like it better running at the slower frame rate. Sys Specs: EVGA 650i motherboard, Intel E6750, 2GB 800MHz RAM, EVGA 8600GT •. Hi Mike, Sorry, the only “progress” I can report is that I have the same problem on my home machine. I’m running XP MCE with an Nvidia 7900GTX graphics card and none of the vis’s (including the default ones) run in media center.
Jordan, I think the speed-up is being caused by the fact that when not running full screen the image has to be rescaled to fit the window. As for the animation rate being tied to the frame rate, I’m just guessing but that sounds like the cause is slacker developers.
? take care, scoy •. Sad to say the issues with MCE will probably never get fixed. I’m not even sure if it’s something that we’re doing or something that MCE is doing. I would guess that since the visualizations run fine under WMP that the problem is on the MCE side but that just may be the developer in me saying “not my fault”. ? Neither Tim nor I know anyone in the MCE team so we can’t go directly there for help.
Any MCE devs out there reading this? With our “day jobs” keeping both of us plenty busy it’s hard to find the time to dig into something like this.
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Stephen said, “Sorry, the only “progress” I can report is that I have the same problem on my home machine. I’m running XP MCE with an Nvidia 7900GTX graphics card and none of the vis’s (including the default ones) run in media center.” FWIW, when I removed ‘next generation visualisations’ I was able to get the default visualizations to work in vista mce. I’d love to get that 3D album cover effect, and I’m disappointed I can’t, but I understand the day job issue. You guys have done a great job getting these working to this level — too bad it’s hard to find the right people at microsoft to help you with the final mile. Best of luck.
Sorry to hear about the bluescreening. It shouldn’t be possible to happen, it’d be interesting to get more details from you. In any case, your video card is underpowered for these vizzes. It’s only a directx 8.1 level card, and these vizzes require a directx 9.0 card at least. To remove them, just go to the control panel and use ‘remove programs’.
Look for ‘next generation visualizations’. You can also just go delete the dll files for the vizzes, which will be in c: program files windows media player visualisations or something very similar. I believe there is a simpler solution to your problem. Somewhere I found ‘something’ that i’m sure will help solve the issues with this pack.
Like everyone else. I love these visualisations. And have run into the problems using it with MCE on my nice new Vista home premium laptop. Most ran today. Working albeit intermittently at times.
Like the others above I also have an NVidia card. Its an 8400M GS.
Direct X 10, Shader 4. However now for some reason they wont work with MCE at all. The programmer in me hoped that this was some kind of error you could pin down.
And knowing i’d being looking at album art 3d and upcuber a lot today I wondered if the issue was with another vis dll. So I fiddled a bit.
The goal to get them installed manually (otherwise your install reinstalls everything.). First i tried another test. I replaced ALL your VIS DLLs with copies of a “known good” one that is fine without this pack installed. It didn’t work. So i took copies of the upCuber dll, the 4 dlls i think you use as helpers? (dont have depends.exe at home.). Saved off the registry entry for upcuber + the clsid associated.
After uninstalling the pack and then adding back the files and reg values. I’m pleased to say that so far (my favourite) upCuber works fine. Will try some more soon. Rob: Thanks ^_^. You’ll get better perf out of them if you turn off transparency effects in the Vista desktop, they have to fight with it.
Each vis is contained within it’s dll, other than the directx dependencies. The names don’t match up exactly, for silly technical reasons. Clarity.dll is the ‘distortion’ vis. We don’t know what exactly is broken with media centre. We will probably not find out, since we’re just going to make version 2 and test that on things while developing, and try to make it work everywhere. If you want to manually install/uninstall these dlls, they just have to be regsvr’d – so, from a command prompt in the same dir as the dlls: regsvr32 upcuber.dll will register that dll. To uninstall, regsvr32 /u upcuber.dll you will most likely have to do this from a command prompt with admin privileges, and you may need to do it in the same dir as the d3dx_xx.dll files.