AVS Picture Viewer/Slideshow

[djpete]

Wondering has it ever been done?
An AVS picture viewer with say settings for folders and/or subfolders of pics. Able to choose delay and maybe some transitions etc.
Set it up and away you go. Play your music with a little picture slideshow happening in the AVS window. Resizable too.

[djpete]

enabled gadgets on Win 7 and using slideshow. Does job.

[Aminifu]

Also keeps Winamp from using up RAM keeping images in active memory.

[Warrior of the Light]

(almost) not possible, AVS only allows single images. You'd have to select every image manually and make an effect list for each photo.

[DrO]

like noted above, there's better ways to go about doing it (e.g. album art plug-in or hijacking the video window) then trying to hack up something with AVS (and is really overkill for displaying effectively static images).

[InCUbuS-94]

Well, you can't do that (there's not an APE which allows to load more than one picture) but you can work around it by using an effect list per image.
Something like this, good thing I learned megabufs

[Warrior of the Light]

Forget my last comment, it is possible. I still recommend any other method to save your CPU, but for completeness sake, here's how to do it in AVS:
I just remembered the rare slideshow.ape, which was made just for this. Here's an example and the ape. Don't forget to change the path to your desired folder! I hope it works on your windows+winamp+avs version.
I tested with Linux Mint 17/Wine1.6.2, Winamp 5.666.3516, and AVS 2.81d+2.83 and it worked as expected.

[djpete]

WOTL can you explain a little more what to do for us mere mortals who don't know too much about avs workings? How do I set it up? I added the files to avs folder but no go

[InCUbuS-94]

In order to work, that preset requires an APE (AVS plug-in Effect) called slideshow.ape which is kinda like an extra effect.

You may check this thread for a list of some interesting APEs. Once you downloaded the APE you need, simply extract it onto your AVS folder then run AVS, job done

And there's the AVS FAQ thread if you need more info about AVS.

[djpete]

I'm still confused.
I think the slideshow.ape IS included in the WotL - slideshow.zip above.
I added the slideshow.ape into avs folder with the wotl slideshow.avs. That didn't work (blank screen when I choose that preset) so I moved the slideshow.ape file into the plugins folder. Still no go.

Also how do I edit the address to my pictures

[InCUbuS-94]

I know it is included, I was just telling you how to make APEs work properly.

Have you changed the path for the pictures? There's a button right next the pathname, try to choose a folder that contains images (by the way, iirc the APEs need to be extracted inside the AVS folder, not outside)

[djpete]

button?
Are you saying there is some sort of interface because I can't see it.
I looked in the slideshow.avs using notepad and find this

should I just adjust that path? It has some wierd charactors..

Nullsoft AVS Preset 0.2 lúQVFX FRAMERATE LIMITER ! : pSlideshow U Z:\home\luuk\Afbeeldingen\Screensaver\1080 Öν + e x=x+sx;
y=y+sy $ sx=(rand(4)-2)/w;
sy=(rand(4)+2)/h

[InCUbuS-94]

Dude, you need to open Winamp first then launch AVS

[djpete]

tried that
I see the avs when I right click on the avs window choose
wotl slideshow nothing happens

[djpete]

ok found how. on the case