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SETI@home Visualization
By: oops
foo_vis_seti hosts the SETI@home screensaver inside foobar2000. The screensaver renders using OpenGL.
Features
Features
- Uses OpenGL for rendering.
- Supports the Default User Interface (Default UI) and the Columns User Interface (Columns UI).
- Includes a graphics configuration dialog.
- Includes a work unit generator.
- Implements foobar2000 integration for cover art, player state and song metadata.
- Implements controls through the mouse context menu (middle-click) and interactivity by dragging while holding down the left and right mouse buttons.
- Supports fullscreen mode with interactivity.
- Implements CPU throttling via Advanced Preferences.
- Offered in a 64-bit x86 component configuration only.
- Requires Windows 10 or later.
- Tested on foobar2000 v2.25.10 (x86 64-bit) and Microsoft Windows 11 (Build 26200).
- GPL source code included inside "foo_vis_seti.fb2k-component".
Current version: 0.0.4-beta0, released on 2026-07-21
Change log:
- Restore fullscreen cursor on movement [bug]
- Fix context menu display from graphics process under Wine [bug]
- Fix crash when a second SETI@home panel is created [bug]
- Update BOINC to 6bd49e0 [developer]
- Update Windows 11 SDK to 10.0.28000.2114 [developer]
Supported system: Windows 64-bit.
Works with foobar2000 v2.0 and newer.
Works on Windows 10 and newer.
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Tags: Columns UI panel, Default UI element, visualization