avs don`t working at all

[DrO]

/me bangs head on desk.

there is no need to be downgrading the whole of Winamp just to use the older/newer/whatever vis_avs.dll - can that fud stop being spread as it's just getting as bad as the people who resolutely stay on 2.9x or earlier.


the easiet option is to remove AVS from the distro and provide it as a separate installer with an option to select what version of the plug-in is wanted but stating clearly that it's broken in certain respects. that way it's down to people to decide if they want to install it or not and then doesn't become a primary support issue.

-daz

[Yathosho]

Without AVS, I'd probably have switched to another player in the 3.x days.

avs supports at least foobar2000 and xmplay, though i don't remember if components using bitmaps, like texer, are working properly. they surely don't work on winamp running in wine/darwine.

if security is an important factor, one can still run an old winamp version in a virtual machine (or sandboxie), isolated from the actual operating system. take a look at the windows xp mode of windows 7 pro and ultimate or virtualbox, vmware etc. on fairly modern hardware, the loss of performance is negligible.

personally i'm running avs on my macbook air through darwine/winebottler and the performance is great (faster than on my windows desktop), just that texers don't work.

[Warrior of the Light]

Downgrading in never the best option but it is the only way to run avs if that's what you want.

Without AVS, I'd probably have switched to another player in the 3.x days.

5.581 with 2.81d works on win7, that's all I'm saying. you can still choose to install the most recent version for your music as a seperate install.

[st1mpy]

Thank You guys for helping! I thought too that avs plugin is old for new os. I will use Milkdrop, it works perfect and uses my 3d card))

[DrO]

which has the version of the AVS plug-in (2.83) that everyone complained doesn't work with whatever ape's etc it is and therefore it is broken as is the case for going back to the 2.81d.

hence my post is correct in that it doesn't matter what version is used, all versions are broken in different ways and that's just not going to change.


AVS should not be in the distro as it is clearly not working, cannot be supported (there is no interest to work on the thing either officially or otherwise - chavs had what one part-working release and that's been it) and no one wants to take the source code and fix it.


additionally telling people to downgrade Winamp when it's just a broken dll is completely irresponsible especially 5.581 as that leaves a user open to the dll loading security vuln (and a number of other ones).

-daz

[Warrior of the Light]

5.581 works

[DrO]

AVS just isn't for running on Vista and newer OSes. reverting Winamp versions won't help with that issue as it's the AVS plug-in which is the problem (since it's from the Win9x days) and just needs to be killed / updated / dropped or something but no one cares about it now hence it just getting further broken.

-daz

[st1mpy]

overlay does not longer work on windows vista, windows 7 and what may follow.

try resetting all your avs settings, they are stored in your winamp.ini

resetting didn`t helps(
Milkdrop fullscreen works, chavs in fullscreen(with varios settings) don`t work.
Which old version of WA works with avs?

[Yathosho]

Aero disabling didn`t helps. When entering fullscreen mode (without overlay) screen splashes several times from avs to desktop then stops at desktop. When overlay mode is selected then all fullscreen is darkbrown color only. So that`s a pity...

overlay does not longer work on windows vista, windows 7 and what may follow.

try resetting all your avs settings, they are stored in your winamp.ini

[Yathosho]

chavs works.
(Bar the discrepancies people moan about)

but it breaks convolution filter, which is arguably the most important trans effect these days

[st1mpy]

Your system already.

What you mean?

[st1mpy]

Try disabling Aero when Winamp is running, I believe they should work then. (I haven't personally tested)

Aero disabling didn`t helps. When entering fullscreen mode (without overlay) screen splashes several times from avs to desktop then stops at desktop. When overlay mode is selected then all fullscreen is darkbrown color only. So that`s a pity...

[QOAL]

Try disabling Aero when Winamp is running, I believe they should work then. (I haven't personally tested)

[st1mpy]

the help is ALL OVER the forum

in short: winamp 5.621 does not work properly with ANY avs version. this is likely NEVER going to change again.

Thanks for yr help! I thought that problem in my hardware or drivers or in 32bit win7, but i can`t thougt that problem in winamp version. Why installer of WA 5.621 installing unsupportable plugin? Thats in unlogic. Can you tell me what last version supports avs?

chavs works.
(Bar the discrepancies people moan about)

Man y`re fantastic!!!
Unbelivable~~~ I have working avs now!!! THANKS a lot~~~
Overlay and FS mode not working, only windoved.

[QOAL]

chavs works.
(Bar the discrepancies people moan about)