deltax

8th April 2002 22:17 UTC

how to make AVS switch presets at specific times?
Hi all,

I am making a multimedia presentation and need to setup AVS to automatically switch to certain presets at specific times. (ie: 0-44 sec - preset 1, 45-1:24 - preset 2, etc.) Is there a way to do this in AVS? If not, could you suggest some ways to achieve this goal.

Thanks!
deltax

Jaheckelsafar

9th April 2002 10:21 UTC

There's a time limit for each preset if you're doing random swtiches.

You could just press space, that changes presets randomly (in a specified dir).

Magic.X made a program where you can load presets with a hotkey. It's somewhere in the forum.

UnConeD

9th April 2002 16:40 UTC

Or you can use "u" and "y" to go to the next/previous preset. If you copy them in the desired order one by one, AVS should present then in that order too.

deltax

9th April 2002 18:33 UTC

Thanks for your replies.

Jaheckelsafar- I am not doing random switches. I need to
programmatically switch to a specific preset at a specific time.
So I take it there is no way to do this in AVS? Perhaps, I can
get a program that posts "u" or "y" into AVS when I need to..
Any ideas?

UnConeD

9th April 2002 20:19 UTC

Here's Nullsoft's document on the Winamp API:

http://www.winamp.com/nsdn/winamp2x/dev/sdk/api.jhtml


I just glanced over it, but as far as I can see, you can pretty much do anything by sending some messages to Winamp.

Jaheckelsafar

10th April 2002 05:45 UTC

The program by Magic (hotlist I believe it's called) assigns a preset to a hotkey. (pretty much whatever you want) Then you simply press the corresponding key for the preset you want (no transition effect though). I don't think you can automate it.

You might want to look through the link that Unconed provided and write a program to do it for you automatically. (If you ask nice, Magic may help, or give advice :) )

Jaheckelsafar

10th April 2002 05:54 UTC

Just a passing thought. Thwew was a thread a while back about capturing the output of AVS onto an AVI file. I don't know the end result of the thread, but it may be a quick way to snag some visuals for your presentation.

UnConeD

10th April 2002 19:33 UTC

The result of that thread was AVSGrabber, which you can get from my website or the one from times2 (check the thread for the link, I don't know it by heart). times2's plug-in has better handling of dropped frames, but mine handles other codecs. Haven't had much time to update AVSGrabber though.