Old 9th September 2005, 01:21   #1
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I'd really like to contribute some AVS presets, but I'm a little bit busy right now. Is there any deadline?

If you got avs files, put them into
c:\program files\winamp\plugins\avs\
(or something like that)

Here's a brief tutorial on how to use these files (copied from the tutorial of my avs pack)

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1. TERMINOLOGY
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Some expressions used throughout the following quick guide are explained here.

Winamp:
The ultimate, freely available media player created by Nullsoft. Download here: http://www.winamp.com

Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS):
A popular enhancement (a so-called "plug-in") for Winamp to visualize music. "Visualization" simply means you get to see some nice pictures on screen which move according to the music you're playing. While music studios produce songs and graphics programs produce pictures, AVS allows the user to create his own visualizations.

Presets & Packs:
A single visualization is called "preset". They're usually bundled to so-called "AVS Packs".

AVS Editor:
This is the user interface of AVS for editing presets, and it's tree-like structured similar to Windows Explorer (or something like that): Each preset is made up of specific components displayed in a list on the left of the AVS Editor. The right side allows the "AVSer" to set several parameters of a selected object.


2. QUICK GUIDE
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Start AVS:
Run Winamp and press Ctrl+K to open visualization preferences. There, select Advanced Visualization Studio. If there's no AVS, then you problably have Winamp's lite version installed and need to download the full version. Return to Winamp and press Ctrl+Shift+K to run AVS.

Set up recommended settings:
1) Open the AVS Editor by right-clicking on the Visualization Window and toggling "AVS Editor".
2) For watching in Windowed Mode: The status bar of the AVS Editor displays the current framerate, the size of the Visualization Window and the name of the current preset. Just drag & drop to resize the Visualization Window. Go to Settings -> Display in the menu bar of the AVS Editor and uncheck pixel doubling if checked.
3) For watching in Fullscreen Mode: From the options menu, choose Settings -> Fullscreen. Here, select a resolution from the popup menu as default video mode, ie 400x300@32bpp. Toggle overlay mode (may not work on all computers), set vertical screen height to 100% and uncheck pixel doubling if checked.
4) Go to Settings -> Presets/Hotkeys and uncheck the undermost box to stop random preset switching.

Watching presets:
Right-click on the Visualization Window and select the preset you want to watch. If there are any comments inside a preset, they will be displayed as "Misc / Comment" in the AVS Editor list. Left-click on them to view their content on the right side. To watch the preset in Fullscreen Mode, right-click on the Visualization Window and select "Fullscreen".
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