Bugzilla – Bug 9681
spectrum analyzer screensaver behaves differently since SC7.2/FW112
Last modified: 2009-07-31 10:30:48 UTC
i hope i categorized this bug correctly. if not, i apologize! i use the full-screen spectrum analyzer as my "now playing" screen saver. since i migrated to SC 7.2 and SBC FW 112, it has been behaving differently from my previous SC 7.0 installation. with the old version, the song info would roll in from the right, display in small font at the top edge of the screen for some seconds and then roll back out again to the right. on the new version, the song info rolls in, displays for a maximum of 1 second (way too short, i cant read it) then simply disappears. firstly, that doesnt look quite as cool as it used to, but much more importantly, the text disappears much too quickly for anyone to read. i posted a thread on this as well and followed the guys' advice to file bug: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53543 cheers, dominique
while playing with the screensavers a bit i just discovered another interesting fact: the fullscreen spectrum analyzer apparently uses too many cpu-cycles for some of my UHQ vorbis files to play properly. they peak at ~530kbit/s and cause the infamous skipping and "rebuffering...". changed the screensaver to analog VU (also looks cool and the GF likes it even better!) and now they play like a charm! as far as i am concerned, this makes the screensaver quite useless for me, so i downgraded this bug to "minor". (if i dont have the necessary privileges in bugzilla, please someone else do that). (at least i now know why some of my vorbis files weren't playing properly! :-)
I have the exact same problem after 7.2 upgrade and for me it's a major issue since i normally change the font to full to display it "full screen" and then have the song text scroll for e.g. 20 seconds and then off for 60 seconds using spectrum analyzer (i edit the plugin.pm for this). it's actually a very nice looking way to display the song info, and perhaps it's something to add as an option... The text in the default setting is to small to see anyway With 7.2 the text is displayed for 1 second and then disappears, which makes it impossible to use, with or without the font size change. I've even tried the 7.0 plugin.pm without any luck... For me this is a major issue and i really want this fixed. __________________
peter - changed the bug to "major" for you. ;-) (dont know if you have the privileges to do this)
QA has seen the behavior as well, the song will display for only 1 sec, then disappear. We have not seen the issue of the song failing to play properly. Patches to the .PM file are welcome
What are the steps to reproduce this bug?
To reproduce: Select Spectrum Analyzer as screensaver when playing Start playing a song, wait for the Spectrum analyzer to start. Wait for text (song info) to be presented (sliding in from right), will then disappear in 1-2 seconds instead of stay visible as before. The song info should stay for the time specified in the plugin.pm file as it as done in all versions before..
Specifically the textontime (row 26) settings in the plugin.pm file: my $textontime = 30; my $textofftime = 30; my $initialtextofftime = 5; My settings.. Would anyway be nice to be able to change these someplace without having to edit the plugin.pm file
great idea. in fact, why not have all screensavers be plugins essentially with their own separate settings pages? power to the people.
Cannot reproduce. Triode, any thoughts?
I see this - its caused by the changes in 7.2 to support Boom and the X of Y counter which can dissapear after scrolling. [when we receive ANIC from the player we call $display->update and potentially show a new display rather than calling it with the existing render cache, avoiding calling the lines function.] It needs a change to the plugin lines function so that it includes text. Will look at - can this go in 7.3, or is it to be held off to 7.3.1?
7.3 is OK if you can fix it this week.
Fixed in change 23891
This bug has been fixed in the 7.3.0 release version of SqueezeCenter! Please download the new version from http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html if you haven't already. If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.
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