Help with AVS - AVS Forums

Berghutze

22nd October 2002 13:01 UTC

Help with AVS
Hi everybody,

my depression increases!

Is there something like a user guide for the avs editor? I have the problem that I simply don´t know how to use it!!

I downloades some very nice presets and was searching for something to stop the Thing from cycling. I found it but what do I have do after uncheking the option??? I can´t close this ******** editor and go back to enjoy the visuals!!!
Maybe I am to stupid but HELP!!!!

Thanx
Randy

binary hero

22nd October 2002 13:06 UTC

let's take a stroll through the forums shall we?

first off we may ell notice the AVS forum
then what about the AVS FAQ (found in the AVS forum

and how could we forget the avs troubleshooting forum?

4 letters:T, F, R and M, not in any specific order.

Yathosho

22nd October 2002 13:53 UTC

Originally posted by binary hero
4 letters:T, F, R and M, not in any specific order.

lol

i think nullsoft put up a rough user guide on the developer pages

jheriko

22nd October 2002 17:03 UTC

Re: Help with AVS

Originally posted by Berghutze
I can´t close this ******** editor and go back to enjoy the visuals!!!

Ironically you need to press the close button.

Oh and btw, congratulations on not checking the FAQ or searching the forums.

UnConeD

22nd October 2002 18:21 UTC

* UnConeD hands Berghutze the clue-phone.
<UnConeD> It's for you.

dirkdeftly

22nd October 2002 20:25 UTC

Two words: You dumb shit.

Karnov

23rd October 2002 02:44 UTC

Two words: You dumb shit.

LOFUCKINGL
(thats three words bud)

oh yeah. FAQ are here for a reason.

(the only thing he didnt ask was how his buddy was doing desktop overlay mode)

cmountford

24th October 2002 02:59 UTC

hey, what's up with all the hate?!? I know I've been gone for a while from the AVS forum for a while, and I may be gone some more, but give the poor guy a break. He's just a n00b, and weren't we all there once?

You should look at the FAQ, or if you did, say that you looked at it but couldn't figure out the answer for your exact question. To turn off the random preset picking, just type "r" with the main AVS window open. For a guide, forum search should help. The subject "AVS Primer" comes to mind. There's been several other AVS guide webpages put out by some users. I don't have a webpage, but as soon as I get my other computer back, I'll post a small section of my guide. I admit I'm a very slow writer, and I am easily distracted. So my guide (anyone remember when I first mentioned I was working on it?) is taking a very long time to complete because I don't work on it for very long at a time, and I don't work on it often. But it's a help, right?

UnConeD

24th October 2002 03:09 UTC

With all the resources around, we're allowed to shout at newbies who are too lazy to look something up themselves, and act like pathetic cry-babies instead.

1 out of 10 posts made by newly registered users here actually contains an interesting question. It's annoying. We try to do somethign about it (a FAQ) but it doesn't help.

cmountford

24th October 2002 05:42 UTC

Just for the forum's information: The second paragraph was written for Berghutze. I forgot to address him, so it probably sounded a little weird talking to some of the people who wrote replies to this thread and suddenly start talking with the starter or the thread.

I thought UnConeD's comment was pretty funny.

Berghutze: Just FYI---Atero is the guy who wrote the thing I mentioned called "AVS Primer." It's an AVS guide that covers each element of AVS. To get a general understanding of what goes into making a preset, it's a very good idea to take a look at that. (hint hint).

Karnov

25th October 2002 18:57 UTC

It's not that I hate n00bs.
I am just allergic to dumbasses.
They make me itch.

:p

Warrior of the Light

28th October 2002 20:57 UTC

It indeed gets a little annoying reading the same questions over and over and over (etc.) again. But what I notice is that it happens a lot that newbies just look over the FAQ-section and jump into the forums. Perhaps (webmasters, listen up) that could be mentioned in the signing up...

Berghutze

28th October 2002 21:58 UTC

Thanks a lot to all you nice people calling me things like dumbass.
I have checked the Faqs but the problem was i coulndn´t close the avs.
When i checked the close button nothing happend.
I solved the problem myself; i reinstalled winamp3.

One more thing: Even more depressing are people like.... oooh you know.....

So I have posted a new questin about firewalls but if it is to boring for you people to answer i do have an advice: let it be!

Fuck you very much
Randy

cmountford

28th October 2002 22:50 UTC

Ahhhh! I see we had a miscommunication! If you'd told us up front that you'd looked in the FAQ and it couldn't solve your problem, there probably would never have been all the derogatory comments that you got.

If we know you did your homework before asking your question, we almost always are happy to help you with any problem. As long as you tell us what you've done to try and find the answer, this won't happen.

Feel free to ask questions! We like answering questions, but we worked hard to put together the various guides for AVS, and we like to know that people are looking at them.

dirkdeftly

29th October 2002 05:40 UTC

And therefore this does not belong in AVS Presets. This belongs in AVS troubleshooting with a clear consise explanation of your problem and what you've already done so far.

btw when u type like this and dont use punctuashun r capitlizashun n spell evyting rong so you can look cool coz u think evry1 talks like dis on da net it just makes you look like a ******* *******!!!!!!!1

datz 1 reason y we yelld at you coz u r freekin annoying!!!!1

help plz!!!!11

tanx
leetorhakkor

Berghutze

29th October 2002 12:05 UTC

Statement: I didn´t know I have to tell I read the FAQs because telling something isn´t working means I looked there, didn´t it?

Sorry, I still think only people with absolutly no brains at all call other people like they did to me (not all).

Just have a look at the answer from Atero:
What is this guy talking about?
Is my english that bad? I checked my post and I still don´t know what this is about? Is it funny? Then I didn´t get it.

Bye
Randy

Jaheckelsafar

29th October 2002 13:15 UTC

Artero, chill. He didn't put it here, a mod did, and he isn't using l337.

Berghutze: A lot of people come though here and ask a question the is in the FAQ. At first glance, your question looks like question #9 in the FAQ, hence the flames.

The problem you describe is a winamp 3 AVS thing. I don't know how to solve it. Perhaps double clicking the AVS window will work. That's another way to close the editor.

See, we can be civil if we try. (well, some of us anyway) :p

Berghutze

29th October 2002 13:49 UTC

Thats exactly what I think! Thanks for your understanding!

randy

jheriko

29th October 2002 22:20 UTC

Winamp 3 = crashes and random bugs. I have to reinstall it almost weekly. Stick with winamp 2 untill 3 is a bit more stable (stable as in 'really finished'). :)

UnConeD

29th October 2002 22:49 UTC

Weird... am I the only one who hasn't had problems with Winamp3 at all? The only times it crashed was with:

- A crappy component for reading old DSP/General WA2 plug-ins, which was quickly removed.
- When a bug in my APE caused Winamp3 to crash and corrupted its DB (but removing the DB dir fixed this).

Just got the coolest skin ever today: MMD3. Looks like a hybrid between a portable MP3/MD player and a stereo :).

Warrior of the Light

31st October 2002 20:02 UTC

I prefer "the silence"(WA2). it's really good-looking and the buttons aren't blurred away or way too small.

And WA3 doesn't crash on my pc, i just don't use it ;) it's slow and doesn't have anything that I can't do on WA2 only the hype around it makes it popular ("oh yay, WA3 is out! It's new so it HAS to be better than WA2! :igor: ") WA2 is far more stable (I still use 2.79) and the only times it crashes is if i try to open the preset that a friend gave me... it's corrupt so I can't delete it and has got some errors to make WA crash. :mad:

Berghutze: if you feel offended by what I said, my apologies. we are (with a few exceptions) all nice and friendly people, but sometimes we get pissed if (we think) some newbie asks the same questions as in the FAQ - but you already noticed that I guess. :)

Warrior of the Light

31st October 2002 20:08 UTC

UnConeD

31st October 2002 20:25 UTC

The only reason I use WA3 is for its video-playing capabilities. Media Player has an awful way of handling playlists (have to add the videos to the media library first, then make a new playlist). In Winamp3, you just drag em into the list, useful for multi-part videos and such.

jheriko

31st October 2002 22:16 UTC

WMP doesn't auto hide the mouse on fullscreen like WA3 either.

WMP is a perfect example of how *not* to make a media player. It has awkward functionality which is crap, you need to know more than an asm programmer to make a crappy visualisation for it and you need to slave away for several years to produce a skin for it. As if that wasn't bad enough it has awful error handling and has tons of missing or limited features.

In short - I hate WMP because it sucks pig testicles.

UnConeD: when you say 'multi part videos' don't you mean 'porn videos'?(j/k)

UnConeD

1st November 2002 06:16 UTC

No, I mean multi-cd DivX videos like Lord of the Rings :p. Copy them all to harddrive and watch it all without interruption.

Jaheckelsafar

1st November 2002 06:17 UTC

I still use mplayer2. Old school media player (soo much faster).

Zevensoft

4th November 2002 06:45 UTC

Bah, I use my own program, SupaMedia(2.9). Works good for playin videos. Is fairly buggy though, but that's what you get when you make things yourself lol.

http://dorm.tunkeymicket.com/zeven/sm2.html