AVS has been made open source!

A program is created, or written,coded, in a certain language that can be converted to a language the computer understands.

AVS is mainly written in the language C++. Once finished, the computer does not know what to do with it so it has to be converted first (compiled) so the computer understands.
Like translating english to japanese.

The written text is called the sourcecode. A normal program (.exe) does only have the compiled information. That's useless for a programmer.
(yes, there are tools to calculate it back a bit but that's always horribly messy and noone likes to go there unless their lives depend on it)

A programmer needs the information the original programmer wrote. That information's called the sourcecode.
To see the sourcecode that created this webpage for example, click on [view]>[source] in your browser.

If the original information is not available, then it's called closed source.
If the original information is available, then it's called open source.

simple as that 😛

Another example: AVS visualizations are open-source; you can edit them in the editor window.
WMP visualizations are closed-source. You cannot edit them. (AFAIK)

/welcome back on board, Magic.X!

hyeah welcome back Magic.X
I would be pleased to give you a hand (and some brain pieces) on this Vj part 😉

Excellent, WoTL, thank you very much. That is indeed simple enough.👍

I saw this on Slashdot and thought, wow, I need to get back to AVS, especially since all kinds of awesome stuff will be coming now that it is open source. I will be keeping a close eye on developments and just may have to release a new pack. 🙂

slashdot? where?

oh, right... missed that one

Wow, that would be so cool if Shock value reappeared and released a pack! I am just a hack, but I know enough to know that sv's presets were/are the shizznit.

project open?

Does anyone know if the AVS sourceforge project is active yet?

A search for 'AVS' just yields a lot of projects purporting to be the 'ultimate replacement for avs' which have released no files and have been flagged inactive by sourceforge!

T

WU-pixels in the superscope code would be nice, especially as the abstract nature of the floating point screen is what WU-pixels were invented for.

and perhaps a better texterII renderer. and yea i realise thats mr unconneds work but it ships with winamp now yea?

but personally i think the main avs system should stick to making innovative the avs system to allow you to have as much control over your avs's as possible and still be able to be creative, and not just give you a load of ape's that clog things up and do everything for you in a simple way 🙂.

improve it, don't break and make a big mess of it like a few other sf projects iv seen 🙂

Re: project open?

Originally posted by times2
Does anyone know if the AVS sourceforge project is active yet?

project registration on sf.net usually takes 3 work days. however, once not all required information is provided for a new project, it will be rejected without further notice (no email!). whoever registered avs should check his personal page, where the status is listed.

SF online

The SF project is now online...



My sf name is zen-x -shockingly.

sweet... its a shame i lost my development platform a couple of days ago.. will be back soon tho 🙂

Originally posted by TomyLobo
the linux OS
or
a linux distribution

also, that's not really the fastest way of getting a grasp of open source

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s...l#relationship maybe this will be the faster way of getting a grasp of open source?

speaking of linux, i fully trust that i have no longer any reason to keep windows xp on my small computer which is only used for vizualizations??

I would have no reason to keep xp on my laptop wich is mostly used for visuals if avs runs fine with overlay on secondary monitor (TV out) 😉

When using Windows and only for AVS, I still highly recommend win98se instead of XP. Simply the fastest.

> seemingly less crashes

> all APE's work

>...

Originally posted by carmatic
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s...l#relationship maybe this will be the faster way of getting a grasp of open source?

speaking of linux, i fully trust that i have no longer any reason to keep windows xp on my small computer which is only used for vizualizations??

So your volunteering to rewrite AVS for Xine?? That would be cool:]

Any movement on actually recompiling AVS with the some of the newer practical APEs included in the dll? I've had a go fiddling with some of the interface, most of which break the module I'm in. Oh well. It would be nice to integrate the AVStrans ape into the main render list options.

No action on the sourceforge site? Anyone know whats going on?

actually, people are working on avs rewrite (for libvisual, which means avs will be cross platform, on the negative side, all apes will most likely need rewrite aswell).
I could say maybe in moth or two there is something ready. It's taking so long because libvisual need some more schizzle on its own (audio rewrite, complete windows port, script... which is supposedly almost ready).
It wasn't intended to replace avs or anything, but never know...

Originally posted by Warrior of the Light
When using Windows and only for AVS, I still highly recommend win98se instead of XP. Simply the fastest.

> seemingly less crashes

> all APE's work

>...

that's why win 2000 is still my OS of choice
no tradeoffs, simply the best of both worlds 😉

so uhh is libvisual that linux thing that allows you to play milkdrop stuff? now that avs is open source the libvisual people will go in and put avs into libvisual as well?

::edit:: ok by now i think i sound like im not gonna be much help with doing anything serious with avs, and well, i really cant...

ok i've added a couple of you to the project and added the source to the cvs

aaaw... got files but no CVS!

[edit]
actually, i can't seem to have access to files either. Darn sourceforge!

The sourceforge page looks rather quiet.
Is something happening?

In what way is help needed?
Should an Open-AVS promotion campaign be started?
Are the most recent course codes of the APEs available at sourceforge?
What programming-skills are wanted?
What are we waiting for?
etc.

HELLO!!!! CAN WE DO SOMETHING PLEASE!!!

is this ever going to go anywhere?

you mean uploading the code to sourceforge? will accidentally uploaded it into the mlipod project.

Originally posted by jheriko
HELLO!!!!... is this ever going to go anywhere?

is down to people wanting to work on it (despite the obvious lack of the code in cvs but nothing stopping people working on the code as is _but_ from what i've seen it's been out for a while now and i've not seen any custom builds (makes you wonder where all the people wanting it open sourced have gone.. such a great system apart from a lack of people).

i would do some work on the project but since my time is spread thin enough on a number of other projects i'm not going to look into working on this for some time being..

-daz

i'm pretty sure that like half of the people that wanted avs open sourced weren't the coders of the community, including me, it was just something we saw as the only light in the future of avs. now it's up to the people who know about the programming side, but then again most of us have a life to, well, live.

i chose to be patient. i never saw open source avs coming, and it happened. i don't see development coming anytime soon, so i'm expecting a surprise 🙂

I've already started on some c/c++ coding experience of fun! o_O

I'm on the edge of my seat matt

Can we say printf("hello world"); is fun ?