VSXu music visualizer (standalone application) 0.1.16b is out

VSXu is a free, modular, procedural visualization environment for realtime accelerated graphics which enables its users to create cool sound-responsive visuals without a single line of code. New features in this version include dual-monitor support, gravity ribbons. It's also including many stability fixes and is one step closer to a final version 0.1.

Might be worth looking at for you guys dabbling with AVS, it's pretty similar in a way..

some screenshots:


get it here:

*crap removed*

homepage is vsxu _dot_ com

it sucks that it doesn't work with vista x64 yet.

i wanted to check it out.

i only tried the player and it did nothing, not even after reading the help file

Rocker: we don't support vista - vista is spyware and crap, next version of vsxu will be primarily gnu/linux-based, we'll maintain winXP support though. - winxp is still spyware but not as bad as vista, so I'm sorry, I won't fix it for you 😉

Yatosho: did you set the recording in your mixer to stereo mix or similar? did you get any picture at all? what graphics card are you on?

that reminds me, the links to the screenshots on the vsxu wiki are missing.. i played with my soundcard's setting though, i guess that's also where my issue lies. got a standard soundblaster live and some nvidia gfx card, but i remember working before (didn't try the player back then though). will try the editor later today!

Originally posted by jonatan
Rocker: we don't support vista - vista is spyware and crap, next version of vsxu will be primarily gnu/linux-based, we'll maintain winXP support though. - winxp is still spyware but not as bad as vista, so I'm sorry, I won't fix it for you 😉

Yatosho: did you set the recording in your mixer to stereo mix or similar? did you get any picture at all? what graphics card are you on?

How is an operating system spyware?

its opengl based, so shouldn't it be easily compatible with everything?

isn't that the point of opengl?

you'll get many more downloads if it works with windows.

i like linux too, I only use windows for winamp but I don't perticularly want to use amarok or xmms.

is it just me, or why are the [older] links in this forum not working?

Are you talking about, where it says: URL submitted by user. ?

yes

junior members are no longer able to submit links so that they don't post as much spam or something like that.

the spamming was getting out of control.

so there's no way to see the links? 🙁

let me explain my vista "spyware" statement:

when you search for stuff in winxp, it sends the search strings to microsoft - this is spyware. also, when you run windows update they harvest and send an encrypted list of installed programs and settings to microsoft - this is even more spyware behaviour, and they tried to keep this a secret. who knows what they're doing in vista - and in XP for that matter... I simply won't run vista, even less going to pay for it... one thing they're definetly doing in vista is monitoring what you do, and also slowing things down with checks for DRM crap in every file.

Also in vista they changed a lot of the API:s, vsxu's openGL stuff is working but the code for listening to sound isn't.. this is also why sound drivers are sucky on vista right now..
If i make a winamp plugin or so it'd work, but winamp doesn't have as responsive FFT for visuals as we do so the visuals would suffer a bit..

personal rant:
If this is easy to fix maybe I'll fix it for vista, but it's not as prioritized as porting to linux and the macintosh right now - I see more growth potential in those markets since many of the smart people (who might contribute to vsxu) have already moved there - many I know and consider real programmers+artists use either one of those platforms, or would prefer to if it was possible.. The goal for me is to create as broad a platform as possible for everyone to use to visualize music. naive maybe, but I wanna try at least 🙂

Yatoshio can you explain what is happening when you open up the player? Try removing my vjasterix presets if you've installed them because there is a module that doesn't come with the standard release of vsxu player 🙂

Originally posted by jonatan
let me explain my vista "spyware" statement:

when you search for stuff in winxp, it sends the search strings to microsoft - this is spyware. also, when you run windows update they harvest and send an encrypted list of installed programs and settings to microsoft - this is even more spyware behaviour, and they tried to keep this a secret. who knows what they're doing in vista - and in XP for that matter... I simply won't run vista, even less going to pay for it... one thing they're definetly doing in vista is monitoring what you do, and also slowing things down with checks for DRM crap in every file.

Also in vista they changed a lot of the API:s, vsxu's openGL stuff is working but the code for listening to sound isn't.. this is also why sound drivers are sucky on vista right now..
If i make a winamp plugin or so it'd work, but winamp doesn't have as responsive FFT for visuals as we do so the visuals would suffer a bit..

personal rant:
If this is easy to fix maybe I'll fix it for vista, but it's not as prioritized as porting to linux and the macintosh right now - I see more growth potential in those markets since many of the smart people (who might contribute to vsxu) have already moved there - many I know and consider real programmers+artists use either one of those platforms, or would prefer to if it was possible.. The goal for me is to create as broad a platform as possible for everyone to use to visualize music. naive maybe, but I wanna try at least 🙂

That's not really spyware. That's just for better service. They want to know what people search the most so they can make it easier in the future, like youw they added Pics, Music and Video searches in WinXP. They want to know what software you have installed so they can give you updated drivers and such. It's not too secret if they actually mention that they send data back to microsoft, but not personal information. I forget where, but I read it somewhere. They should have an option to do this and tell you clearly about it, though.

about the links: hit [quote]. the url's still there.

/leaves thread because M$ vs. linSux threads are so incredibly 1988. 🙄

Originally posted by Warrior of the Light
/leaves thread because M$ vs. linSux threads are so incredibly 1988. 🙄

Im surprised I'm actually supporting MS 🧟

thanks wotl 🙂
i tried the page source before. it didn't work.

Originally posted by jonatan
let me explain my vista "spyware" statement:

when you search for stuff in winxp, it sends the search strings to microsoft - this is spyware.

Right on the nail.
Eat that Microsoft and burn in hell.

ahem sorry.
BURN BURN!! BURN I SAY MWUHAHAHAHAHA!

again sorry i have windows and am starting to hate it. i even hacked the little bootup image of win98 with the gradient loading bar. heh i made it to something more to my tastes. anyone who would like to edit their image. just go to c: or whatever drive your os is on and find the file logo.sys the file itself is just a bmp saved under the sys file extension so all image editors should open and edit it.

have fun. mwuhahahahahah

Originally posted by Nanakiwurkz
Right on the nail.
Eat that Microsoft and burn in hell.

ahem sorry.
BURN BURN!! BURN I SAY MWUHAHAHAHAHA!

again sorry i have windows and am starting to hate it. i even hacked the little bootup image of win98 with the gradient loading bar. heh i made it to something more to my tastes. anyone who would like to edit their image. just go to c: or whatever drive your os is on and find the file logo.sys the file itself is just a bmp saved under the sys file extension so all image editors should open and edit it.

have fun. mwuhahahahahah

Oh my god, you might just be the last person in the world to find that out.
Also could people stop ranting on about OS's, every one has their own tastes, you don't go around telling people they shouldn't listen to a genre of music do you?