Slideshow from Music (1 Viewer)

[Janusian]

I am sure I am missing an easy answer to this, so I have searched and not found it.

One of the features the family loves in Vista MCE, is that once you have started a music playing session, you can easily start a slideshow which displays random images from the subscribed folders in the My Pictures session. I know you can do the reverse (Specify music for a defined slideshow), but it is normally the music we want, and the photos are random. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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[DigitalStone]

Try This.. It might work

The only way I have seen on how to do this with MediaPortal is outlined here:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/support-101/slideshow-visualization-25341/

I'm using the latest Foofaraw skin (Great Skin BTW) but it will start to show a few pics then crash. Haven't had a chance to troubleshoot it yet.
Thought you might want to try it out to see if you have better luck. It uses a Visualization Plugin called Picture Viz II for WMP 11.

Set it to do 15FPS under the Music section in configuration->Music ->Visualization .
Running a dual core @3.4 with 2GB of ram and a BFG 7950 OC 512MB for video with XP Pro. System specs should be able to easily play a slideshow and music. Haven't figured how to have the visualization start full screen either when the music starts.

Maybe you will get lucky & it will work for you. Hope this Helps & Good Luck.

 

[Janusian]

Thanks I will have a look into. Does Media Portal use Windows Media Player as default, or do I need to select it?

 

[DigitalStone]

Got it to work. Turns out it was a problem with my dual displays. Set primary display in the nvida control panel and it works great.