iJenAPE. Be one with AVS.

Hello fellow AVS developers! We would really like you guys and gals to check out iJenAPE. It's based on our motion tracking technology and allows you to interact with the AVS.
Check it out, the full download is only ~180k. We are sure you will think this is as cool as we do. Feel free to play and mail us what you think. We would like to see some more presets based on this APE! 👍
Oh, you need a WebCam. Enjoy!

Download the APE here

shit...don't have a webcam. While this must be good coding, it would limit it to viewers with a webacam.

That looks cool, I'm not sure what it does, and I don't have a webcam, but....yeah.

me neither, and this doesn't have any use to the majority of people who don't have webcams...nevertheless it looks cool; postify it on deviantart 🙂

How do you get it working with Winamp 2.9x? All it had was a winamp3 install, and it kept crashing avs 2.5.1

🙁I dont have a webcam yet, but i will have one soon(about 2-3 weeks) when i get my new computer.

Originally posted by Zevensoft
How do you get it working with Winamp 2.9x? All it had was a winamp3 install, and it kept crashing avs 2.5.1

It is not designed to be run under Winamp 2.x. Winamp3 is a requirement of the APE. Sorry.
I know some of you still prefer Winamp 2 and don't have Winamp3 installed. But, if you want to experience the coolness, I'm afraid you'll have to download Winamp3.

Hi Zevensoft

Unfortunatly our APE can only run on winamp3, its a problem that we know about, its something to do with directx, i dont know if we can get round the problem yet. we are working on it.

have you tryed it on winamp3 yet?

Regards
Mahem911



"How do you get it working with Winamp 2.9x? All it had was a winamp3 install, and it kept crashing avs 2.5.1"

I'm going to submit it to deviantart. Thanks for the suggestion.

Wish I had a webcam.

For those of you missing WebCams we are working on a streaming video so you can see what you are missing. 😉

since winamp 3 is discontinued in favor of winamp 2 (which will later become winamp 5), you should consider changing your release policy.

No i'm not going to download WA3(i hate it!well everybody does🙄 ), tho it would be if you'll could make it to work it on WA2.x it would be nice.

It crashed winamp.

I does indeed crash Winamp 2. This is why the release is only for Winamp3. To be quite honest we are unsure why it crashes v2.x.
We may be able to return to this in a few weeks. I would also like to return to this after the release of the commerical iJen libaries. iJen will allow you to use our motion detection in other software.
The iJenAPE is really just a cool toy.
So those who won't use Winamp3 will have to wait a few weeks at least. Sorry.

Hungryskull: Not sure it you using Winamp 2 or Winamp3. If you are using winamp3 bear the following in mind: (Copied from readme)

2. Setup
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You should have software to configure your camera settings manually. If not, go and look for VidCap32.exe (it's by Microsoft), it works.
OK, so at the moment we need RGB24 (24 bit depth) feed from the camera and Jen is set to run on a 320x240 feed for this particular APE (later versions will be much more configurable🙂 )

1. 24 bit depth feed.
2. 320x240 resolution.

You will need DirectX 9.0a or greater.
Windows WDM drivers for your camera.
Windows XP

Originally posted by m²k
shit...don't have a webcam. While this must be good coding, it would limit it to viewers with a webacam.

Ah true, true ...
However, with the release of the library, here will be a c++ base class called I_Source which defines the interface that Jen uses to talk to a 'feed source' (cam, avi, mpeg etc). The problem is we have not had the time yet top develop this any further and only have minimal web cam support at the moment >:/

If you've got any media reading code or anything, we'd love to hear from you 🙂

chilm.

Originally posted by Ishan_Rocky
No i'm not going to download WA3(i hate it!well everybody does🙄 ), tho it would be if you'll could make it to work it on WA2.x it would be nice.

Hi,
We use Winamp3 and it allowed us to implement iJen quicker than Winamp2 (as in it worked straight away, instead of crashing straight away😉. However, after this initial feedback getting iJenAPE to work in Winamp 2.x is out highest priority ... as soon as we get back to developing the APE 🙂

We will let you y'all know when it's done 🙂

chilm.

that's nice we'll sure like to see it in WA2.x!

btw, try using the edit button. 🙂

Originally posted by Ishan_Rocky
that's nice we'll sure like to see it in WA2.x!

btw, try using the edit button. 🙂

Heh, we have a new version out now from www.syfi.co.uk.
There are two downloads; one for Winamp3 and one for Winamp 2.9.x!
enjoy.

We are thinking of making "AVS_I_Source", which is essentially our motion detection engine "Jen" using the layers under it as it's input, meaning that everyone can run it!!! 🙂 That'll be in iJenAPE v2.0 ...

chilm.
Also see here

Try having a "playbox" for mouse detection 😉
Or perhaps a small window for keyboard detection... who knows :P

Originally posted by Nic01
Try having a "playbox" for mouse detection 😉
Or perhaps a small window for keyboard detection... who knows :P

Hi Nic01 🙂
I think we understand what you mean, but it doesn't fit in with what Jen does, unless we've misunderstood you ... ?

However, we can write an iJenAPE Game, using say, on-beat pulsing blobs of light that can only be 'hit' when they visible 🙂 or something along those lines ...

Any ideas would be welcome (ahem, NullSoft crew!😉

chilm.

sweeet 🙂

I don't think you will get much help from the Nullsoft people, they basically have abandoned AVS, you would be much better off asking people on the fourms for help with things. I think your APE should be awesome, but since I don't have a webcam I'm out of luck for now, I'll be waiting for this I_source thing though.

Originally posted by S-uper_T-oast
I don't think you will get much help from the Nullsoft people, they basically have abandoned AVS, you would be much better off asking people on the fourms for help with things. I think your APE should be awesome, but since I don't have a webcam I'm out of luck for now, I'll be waiting for this I_source thing though.

Hi S-uper_T-oast,
Cheers for the advice 🙂

Here is the order that we are doing this (with regards to the APE and our library release):

1. Two demos for the website (should be done today - 6th August)
2. The library and it's documentation, for Friday 8th.
3. A ScreenSaver game, next week.
4. Back to the APE!!! 🙂 and the I_Source thinggy 😉
... if all goes well ...

So, hopefully we'll have iJenAPE v2.0 in a couple of weeks ...

chilm.

just hurry 😉 (j/k, you take your time to get all bugs etc. out)

I'd really like to see this thing used for games, I know I can find ways to waste time with them.

Many webcams come with games - my friend's has a basketball game.

You could reinvent that game that came out a long time ago for the nintendo (or was it the snes?). It was basicaly an interactive 3d pong type game. Dont know if this is possible with your software though.

What I meant with the passthrough thingy was simply to have an option to skip the motion detection altogether and just use it as a webcam plug-in. It shouldn't be too hard to implement and could be very useful. AFAIK there isn't a good one (there was one a while ago, but I heard it kept crashing).

Originally posted by S-uper_T-oast
I'd really like to see this thing used for games, I know I can find ways to waste time with them.

dude,
We are releasing two demos today(hopefully) using our engine. Now, bear in mind we are not games developers, and as such the demo's could look a lot better 😔

However, they 'do exactly what it says on the tin'. A simple fly swatter demo - 50 flies buzzing around - hit 'em to kill 'em, and 'Air Drums' demo, 4 parts of a drum kit, hit one to make the sound.

More will be coming as they get made 🙂
And screen savers and things etc.

chilm.