You can also select visualizations by right clicking while your audio is being played.From the VLC Menu click on Audio > Visualizations and then select a visualization.

Related: How to Install New Audio Visualizations in VLC This method is useful for only listening to the audio part of a video.

There is not much point in watching visualizations alongside a video but if you want to do it you can do it. Your video screen and the visualization screen must be placed side by side in order for you to view both. You can also enable visualizations for videos, but those open in a separate window. Visualizations are really cool to fill your screen with some screen saver like effect but it works as the audio plays. These visualizations respond to the sound that is being played. But if you turn on visualizations, you will find that the screen has been filled by some really cool moving images. Only a dark black screen is displayed in VLC Media Player. Suppose you play a song and it has no video. Visualizations are graphic shapes and signs that respond to the audio being played in VLC Media Player. Otherwise a good place to ask question are the projectM help forums on Sourceforge.Audio visualizations is a feature in VLC which is mainly used while playing audio files. Some information on usage and configuration can be found in the ProjectM FAQ Most likely it is one which ends in '.monitor' (if you want the visualizer to visualize what's being output/played). Uncheck the checkbox at the bottom which says 'Try first available playback monitor,' then select the correct device. If this is not the device you want to use, the easiest thing to do is to press 'm' to bring up the menu, then Settings > Pulse Audio Settings. The first PulseAudio sound output device is used from the list shown by the command Once everything is installed just do the following from the command line:Ĭontrols (these are listed in the menu under 'hotkeys':į2 - Toggles song title on/off (does not work in libvisual or pulseaudio as far as I can tell) This wiki currently focuses on the PulseAudio standalone GUI. It now has a Qt GUI that can visualize your audio output through either JACK or PulseAudio, in addition to a libvisual component. ProjectM is an open source music visualizer based on the Milkdrop plugin for Windows/Winamp.

Winamp visualization pack