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HarsH

8th August 2003 15:24 UTC

milkdrop and avs
yet another thread posted by me! i'm becoming a bit of regular!

watching milkdrop for a bit, cos i'm bored, i think to myself...

" how is this so fast with all these effects? Why isn't avs this fast?"

if milkdrop can acheive these sort of speeds, why can't the technology be used in avs? I think this would be a substantial advantage, as there is so much more you can do in avs, combining the two would produce some awesome presets.

reply if your interested.

p.s. sorry if i'm reviving an old thread, couldn't be bothered to search before hand.

Rovastar

8th August 2003 15:41 UTC

*Sigh* Loads of threads about this in the FAQ.

A whole section devoted to it.

Imagine what would happen if everyone couldn't be bother to reply if the poster couldn't be bothered search.

anubis2003

8th August 2003 15:41 UTC

You definitely aren't reviving an old thread since you created a new one, but this topic has been discussed to some extent before.

AVS could be much faster - it uses only the CPU to do the graphics processing. It could be sped up a lot if it used the video card instead. The main reason AVS hasn't been updated is because Nullsoft has basically thrown it away for the time being(seemingly forever) and focused on their other projects(winamp 2.9, winamp 5, WASTE, etc). I wouldn't expect for them to ever modify AVS, although they could be working on it without telling us(highly unlikely, IMO).

Basically, AVS has reached its pinnacle. There's not much left to do with it(the reason why several AVSers have left) and there is no hope of an update for the time being.

I wanna make my own AVS-type program, but I need a little more skill first. Give me a couple years and hopefully I'll have something out. *crosses fingers

HarsH

8th August 2003 15:45 UTC

surely, if nullsoft did modify it, winamp would be much more popular.
(i suppose)

[Ishan]

8th August 2003 17:07 UTC

WA is quite popular(i guess) but its AVS which has'nt got the kind of popularity that it should have.:(

UnConeD

8th August 2003 17:11 UTC

Summary:
Videocards are 'stupid machines' that can only do certain things very fast. Milkdrop is more limited than AVS, so it can work on a video card. Doing AVS on a videocard is becoming possible now that videocards have pixel-shaders, but few people have such cards. It would also require a redesign from the ground up.

Except for a few fanatics, the AVS and Milkdrop communities are quite friendly to eachother ;).

[Ishan]

8th August 2003 17:21 UTC

yeah, like Rovastar(The Milkdropper) being our Mod;)

Tuggummi

8th August 2003 18:21 UTC

Yup, somehow i just doubt that all those yummy color tricks degnic does could be even made with any vis prog that would use the videocard...

dirkdeftly

8th August 2003 19:11 UTC

rovastar should be captured and nipple tortured until he converts back to avs :D (or maybe i just like the concept of rova being nipple tortured...muahahahaha)

Pixelcraft

8th August 2003 20:09 UTC

I like milkdrop, but a lot of it's presets are really similar....

horse-fly

8th August 2003 20:58 UTC

nipple tortured? ouch

Rovastar

8th August 2003 22:49 UTC

Oi leave my nipples alone.

Pixelcraft....true but there is a lot more variety now then when we started. It has a smaller community then AVS

[Ishan]

9th August 2003 10:43 UTC

It has a smaller community than AVS

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?:rolleyes:

Tuggummi

9th August 2003 15:00 UTC

The good thing probably is that there is "les noobiens" than in the field of avs, bad thing of course being the lack of variety, but i think milkdrop has part of the blame in that issue...

jheriko

10th August 2003 06:55 UTC

Originally posted by UnConeD
Except for a few fanatics, the AVS and Milkdrop communities are quite friendly to eachother ;).

Don't beat around the bush... those few fanatics are infact just one Atero. :p

shreyas_potnis

10th August 2003 14:28 UTC

Nipple Torture - Have anyone of you seen Hello Brother (a Hindi comedy)? There is something called as PUNGI where the hero cathches hold og both the nipples and twists them till the other one is almost unconcious...:D

Magic.X

11th August 2003 11:55 UTC

Originally posted by jheriko
those few fanatics are infact just one Atero. :p

Only a half one since he is only part-time at the forums. But we still enjoy him. Can't a Mod change his level from "Forum King" to "AVS Forums Mascot"??? :p :p :p

[Ishan]

12th August 2003 15:55 UTC

hey shreyas i saw that one! That was as funny as hell:D