projectM For Linux

projectM is a XMMS visualization plugin which uses 3D hardware accelerated iterative image based rendering.

projectM is basically a reimplementation of Milkdrop under OpenGL. projectM already does some things Milkdrop does not (like infinite custom shapes/waves).

projectM should run anywhere where OpenGL is available (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows verified). Please port me to your music player.

Install SDL 1.3 branch

(Un)fortunately there is a special feature in a development branch of SDL dubbed "branch_1_3_x" that projectM requires to handle different texture sizes and window resizing. This code is under CVS at SDL's sourceforge site, and has not been thoroughly tested. However, the developers have found it stable enough to merit installation. We provide a source tarball of a recent CVS version on our website (http://xmms-projectm.sourceforge.net).

Once you have downloaded the tarball SDL-1.3.0.tar.gz do the following:

As usual, run

./configure

followed by

make

and as root

make install

NOTE: this will install SDL in /usr/local, so when you compile projectM make sure that it finds SDL-1.3 and not SDL-1.2 (which is likely in /usr with most distributions). Hopefully the configure script will verify this automatically for you. To force SDL into /usr, type

./configure --prefix=/usr

followed by typical make and make install.

Install projectM

Then run

./configure

followed by

make

and as root

make install

This will install projectM into XMMS's Visualization plugin directory. projectM's configuration files, including the default packaged presets are in /etc/projectM.

Enable projectM by loading XMMS and pressing CTRL-v. This will bring up the vis plugin menu. Highlight projectM in the list (if it's not there something went wrong during installation), and click the enable button. Sit back and enjoy the trippy visuals...