Winamp 5.5 Forum

Tested on CrossOver Linux Standard 8.0.3

The library link from the drop down isn't working (you have to use the key combination to enable it)

The links in the library aren't showing.

Equilizer works.
Visualisation works.

Classic skin works.

Have chrashes while using the modern skin.

Tested against crossover 9, runs but dragging window around screen does not follow the mouse properly.

Installed mainly for milkdrop 2, which unfortunatly fails as soon as its started. I disabled pixel shaders in the plugin config to see if that would help but it did not.

I have been running milkdrop 1 on winamp 2 for a long time, and its 80% good - the vis does not track the window its in properly and the top and bottom of the effect are black. Since I imagine the app is not as complex as a lot of the new games that crossover has been working on, it'd be a great test case I think to fix some more basic directx functionality (and now ive seen milkdrop 2 on a new win7 laptop, I want it on linux! :)

Hi,

Just did a quickish test on this with CXO-9.0.1 ; seems to work  

fine, however I wouldn't have done a 'typical' install all said...

..start cxsetup => create new bottle, winXP profile => install directx runtime - modern

...install winamp 5.572...

....once winamp is installed and running, goto Option=>preferences=>visualization

.....select milkdrop and configure...see this screenshot ;

http://rapidshare.com/files/385162113/milkdrop.jpg.html

(defaultly is seems to configure itself to your display max_res ; setting it back
to 1024x768 seems to resolve the window tracking issue)

......in the 'MORE OPTIONS' tab, set Canvas Stretch to 1.5x (may not be necessary but is what I did)

Seemed to work fine when installed/setup like this -- let us know how you get on...

Cheers!

Hi Don, Thanks for the tips! I installed 'directx runtime - modern' in to the bottle I had previously setup, and its now working. This is (more specifically) crossover 9.0.1. I re-enabled pixel shaders and it kept working but I have no idea if my driver layer supports it. The windowed mode missed the window frame some, but this doesnt matter as full screen @ 1680*1050 is working fine.

My OS/drivers are:

Linux media.internal 2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Aug 17 08:38:59 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Fedora 10

(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:8.67.4
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 8.671
(II) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Nov 4 2009 09:43:39

ATI Radeon 4890 Versions:

http://i39.tinypic.com/ih63v4.jpg

It would be nice if the windowing issues with directx and whatever skin mechanism winamp 5 uses was fixed to make the app run flawlessly, but regardless Im happy with the result :)

yeah yeah ATI I know, I have been using nvidia for years but bought this card for a proposed new windows media center in my lounge but tested it on linux to see how the catalyst drivers were going these days, and its worked pretty well so I left it in the machine :)

Hi,

I haven't used an ati videocard in linux for nigh on a decade -  

not because I think ati make a bad product, but their linux driver
support has been woeful for so many years, I concluded it was all
a very bad joke...(at best ;)....

..wrt to what you say here, (and after rechecking some), I'd have
to say it is running flawlessly here on this hardware with none
of the windowing problems you mention (although I did see such things
initially before I reconfigured the winamp plugin)...this could well
be due to differences in the ati/nvidia drivers (and if it is that,
it'll be another 10years before I touch ati again ;)....however....

..it could also be that I've used a different directx runtime version
to the one you would have used (I deliberately neglected to mention this
as I haven't tested it much in CXO)...to wit;

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/E/1/EE17FF74-6C45-4575-9CF4-7FC2597ACD18/directx_feb2010_redist.exe

You can download that exe, install it as 'Other application' in crossover
(but the first time it will just unpack itself into <some_dir>), so you have
to then install it (again) as an 'Other application' and select the 'DXSETUP.exe'
file in the directory you unpacked the files into. It may help, it may not,
but it'd be worth checking (I know a few titles requiring a new directx version).
Let us know how you get on....

...windows media center?...eeew....I can think of a number of linux solutions
that can do a lot more...mythtv probably being the top of the bunch (been using
it for years)...

Cheers!

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

Hi,

I haven't used an ati videocard in linux for nigh on a decade - 

not because I think ati make a bad product, but their linux driver
support has been woeful for so many years, I concluded it was all
a very bad joke...(at best ;)....

Yeah, I am the same, my last 10 video cards (at least?) have all been nvidia due to the far superior driver.

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

..wrt to what you say here, (and after rechecking some), I'd have
to say it is running flawlessly here on this hardware with none
of the windowing problems you mention (although I did see such
things
initially before I reconfigured the winamp plugin)...this could well

be due to differences in the ati/nvidia drivers (and if it is that,

it'll be another 10years before I touch ati again ;)....however....

Its not likely drivers as I witness the same thing with the positioning with winamp 2.95 and milkdrop 1 on nvidia hardware also, and have done for some time.

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

..it could also be that I've used a different directx runtime
version
to the one you would have used (I deliberately neglected to mention
this
as I haven't tested it much in CXO)...to wit;

yes, the directx sdk that installed with the menu option "install windows software" was almost certainly what fixed it. Simple as that. Pitty the winamp app wasnt listed with a preset config that could have loaded the runtime automatically.

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

...windows media center?...eeew....I can think of a number of linux
solutions
that can do a lot more...mythtv probably being the top of the bunch
(been using
it for years)...

Yeah I use mplayer mostly but with a big 1920x1080 screen I also wanted to use it for native gaming. I use crossover on my office machine most of the time with good success, or hardware media players based on linux other times. In the end I never ended up needing it, but thats the story behind how an ati card ended up in my machine ;) Now if ati could just improve the installer so getting it running wasnt such a PITA maybe i'd buy more of them.

antus wrote:

Its not likely drivers as I witness the same thing with the
positioning with winamp 2.95 and milkdrop 1 on nvidia hardware also,
and have done for some time.

..hmm...ok, handy to know...I'm not seeing any issues with that here however...

antus wrote:

Artist Formally Known as Dot wrote:

..it could also be that I've used a different directx runtime
version
to the one you would have used (I deliberately neglected to
mention
this
as I haven't tested it much in CXO)...

yes, the directx sdk that installed with the menu option "install
windows software" was almost certainly what fixed it. Simple as
that. Pitty the winamp app wasnt listed with a preset config that
could have loaded the runtime automatically.

..just be aware that the builtin directx target in crossover is not the same
directx redist as I used (and the newer directx adds some stuff that isn't in
the earlier directx versions)....

..with regards installing winamp5 itself, (and seeing as you're an advocate for
that title), you could actually create a 'c4p' installer profile for it, and
list directx as a dependency for the winamp5 installation. If you're interested
in doing such a thing (and want access to the c4p online editor), you will have
to voice your request for c4p access in the following thread;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/advocate_center/forum/?t=1;msg=75306

Cheers!

...I was just looking again at this --- I know where the weird window handling
comes from now...go into winamp's Options->preferences->plug-ins->visualization.
Click on milkdrop -> configure. In Common Settings->WINDOWED settings you'll see
the option "Integrate with winamp skin" ..turn that OFF ... it should now
handle/track the window viewport correctly...

Cheers!