Skins

15th August 2003 03:03 UTC

Need help publishing AVS presets for WA2.9
I can do everything but the pictures........it says there not Gif or jpg files......but im using gif files.......... I need help.

[edit] moved from WA2-TS to AVS by moderator --> DJ Egg [/edit]

S-uper_T-oast

15th August 2003 03:45 UTC

I don't understand what you are asking us to help you with,

Skins

15th August 2003 03:47 UTC

I cant publish the prests cause it is saying that the pictures are not Gif, or JPG files (the thumbnail and whatnot)

Pixelcraft

15th August 2003 05:19 UTC

They must be the wrong type of picture file. Change them to a gif or jpg file and then it will work. Just load them into a graphics program (photoshop or something) and then resave them as a gif or jpg file.

Skins

15th August 2003 07:00 UTC

did it........there both .GIF files
it still woulnt load

[Ishan]

15th August 2003 08:13 UTC

uhh. dude are you sure they are gif files:igor:

Magic.X

15th August 2003 08:25 UTC

Sorry, but this is a REALLY confusing request!

Are you having trouble with:

Adding Pictures to Presets?
Adding Pictures to your Installer?
Uploading Pictures somewhere?

The more precise your request is, the better we can help you.

jheriko

15th August 2003 09:17 UTC

Try using .jpg, after all .gif is a really crappy format.

blazer1504

15th August 2003 13:08 UTC

hey, I had the same problem when submitted my pack. It says that the pic(s) must be in .jpg or in .gif format, I used jpeg file format but it just gave me errors claiming that the pictures are not in requested format. Then used gif format and it worked.... I think it could've something to do with the file size of picture, dunno..

shreyas_potnis

15th August 2003 14:11 UTC

Convert it to .gif or .jpg. Make sure you have not just renamed it:

eg:
mypicture.bmp (original)
mypicture.gif (changed name)

Skins

15th August 2003 14:39 UTC

ok....they are valid .gif files............maby ill try jpg files

Zana

15th August 2003 17:03 UTC

Originally posted by jheriko
Try using .jpg, after all .gif is a really crappy format.

jheriko

15th August 2003 17:18 UTC

Yes, the file extension of .jpeg is one of those gay four letter file extensions that offends people like me who still think that all file extensions should be <3 letters long... it took me long enough to get used to filenames being bigger than 8 chars!

Seriously though there is no difference, they both use the same encoding method.

anubis2003

15th August 2003 17:24 UTC

I don't really like the long file extensions. They are a bit weird. Just kinda seem awkward whenever I see them. Especially when there are some that are 12+characters long.

jheriko

15th August 2003 17:31 UTC

.vcproj bugs me immensely and .activex, I still don't see what was wrong with the original .vbx

dirkdeftly

15th August 2003 20:21 UTC

< 5 letters == good, any more than four is just annoying. there is something to be said about descriptive extensions, but when the extension is longer than the filename itself it's fucking irritating.

jheriko

15th August 2003 20:45 UTC

Seriosuly though three letters = 26^3 = 17576 combinations... thats most likely more file extensions than those currently existing in use.

Zevensoft

16th August 2003 03:13 UTC

Heh yeah, I try to keep to 3 letters with my own file extensions I make (*.ava *.ztg *.zts *.zmc *.zsc *.zpc) :D

dirkdeftly

16th August 2003 07:28 UTC

yeah well how many of them are actually descriptive of anything? and what about things like .fuk and .sex and .cnt? ;)

seriously, there's also conflicts between file extensions - like .sun could be a sun networks file, or it could be a super uber noobie. (okay, bad example.) you run into problems of being specific so you don't fuggle users' file associations but still being recognizable. hence the fourth letter. although there is NO excuse for nonstandardization of .html versus .htm or .mpeg versus .mpg....

jheriko

16th August 2003 19:02 UTC

.cnt files exist.

Zevensoft

18th August 2003 10:06 UTC

Well, I actually agree with HTML, mainly because it's just too mainstream compared to HTM to start changing.

Magic.X

18th August 2003 10:19 UTC

In fact, multiple use of the same extension is already widely spread.

Maybe someone should introduce standard file recognition tags, so we could skip extensions.

mikm

18th August 2003 16:10 UTC

*cough*backwards compatibility*cough*

Zevensoft

20th August 2003 08:18 UTC

Originally posted by Magic.X
Maybe someone should introduce standard file recognition tags, so we could skip extensions.

Magic.X

20th August 2003 08:45 UTC

And most programs have a filetype tag within anyway, so what's the point?

Microsoft & Co just needs to pull up some standards and make Windows use em. This would be way easier to find the prog a file has to be opend with. Furthermore the tag could contain information about where the prog can be found on the net if it is not available.

dirkdeftly

21st August 2003 00:10 UTC

mmk here's your problem right here:

Originally posted by Magic.X
Microsoft & Co just needs to [...] This would be way easier [...]

Magic.X

21st August 2003 06:55 UTC

LOL! :p

Deamon

21st August 2003 09:26 UTC

pretty damn big problem that is...

jheriko

23rd August 2003 14:59 UTC

On the original problem of .gif and .jpg not being recognised by winamp.com, I'm now having it.. with mspaint saved .gifs and .jpgs too... what could be more standard?

Who do I pester to get this fixed?

Zevensoft

24th August 2003 02:41 UTC

That's funny thinking MSPaint's file formats would be 'standard'. If there is any format breaker, it's Microsoft. Try finding a copy of Paint Shop Pro 4, since it's old and most of it's formats are accepted. It can even edit masked PNG's, but not the stupid Microsoft format ones, the proper ones.

jheriko

24th August 2003 11:10 UTC

Ironically I used PSP 3.11 to originally save the .jpg, then mspaint afterwards assuming it would be more standard.

Magic.X

25th August 2003 07:03 UTC

Originally posted by jheriko
Who do I pester to get this fixed?