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i can't get project m or any other visualization besides shadertoy and waverform visualization to show anything but black in kodi
my current kodi version is 2:16.0~git20160220.1654-final-0trusty installed from the ppa
i am running ubuntu 14.04.3 (might be .4 now cuz updates) 64 bit
my kernel version is 3.19.0-49-generic
i have an Intel PentiumĀ® D CPU with Intel 965Q graphics and 4 GB of RAM
nothing crashes, it just shows a black screen where the visualization would be
Did you see something in your Debug Log?
i see this 12:31:57 T:139855212861440 ERROR: ADDON: Could not locate visualization.projectm.so.1.0.17
full log https://gist.github.com/ask-compu/bf8e49...m-txt-L974
Try this:
Code:
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/addons
sudo mv visualization.* /usr/lib/kodi/addons/

Per: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=260827
that only fixed the spectrum visualization, all the other ones i mentioned still give the same error in the log
i just checked, the file it's looking for is now in place but its still saying it cant find it
http://screencloud.net/v/jUBd
same with goom
hmm, i copied the files to their respective addons folders in ~/.kodi/addons/ and now it works fine