[ameinild]

Hi. I'm curious as to how visualizations actually work?

Are they tied up to a skin, or can they be installed separately? Are there any custom visualizations out there? I see a long list on the Wiki, but are any of them available on the "main" XBMC release (Dharma)?
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Visualizations

I've tried searching for visualization here on the forum, but the results are very sporadic, and I don't see any specific releases...
Can I get some insight here

Thanks, Artur

[jhsrennie]

Many of the Wiki articles are badly out of date, mainly because as is usual with developers we're all too busy cutting code to write the documentation :-)

JR

[ameinild]

Yeah I imagine - but the main question is really - are there any extra visualizations available for the general platform (not Xbox)

[jhsrennie]

No, I don't know of any.

Visualisations are not addons. They are binaries and quite complex to write. I don't suppose it would be too hard to rewrite the old XBox addons (assuming the source is available) and maybe when someone invents an eighth day in the week I'll have a go :-)

JR

[spiff]

strictly speaking vizes are add-ons. but there's no additionals available. and our repo does not support hosting them yet - gets involved on linux. it's on the todo though.

[ameinild]

Ok, thanks for the clarification - now everything makes more sense...