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themadgoose · Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 61

Swift Elite hoster has a function that can reset the background of a CDG file to any colour you like.

If we could change this colour to, for example, REAL BLACK (0,0,0), then we could use the AVS to overlay whatever footage we wanted onto the background of the words?

I believe that the background of the CDG is channel 0. Is anybody able to tweak the cdg plugin code to alter this so that it is always real black?

toqer · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 427

God I would love this.. I would love it so much.

Unfortunately I've tried contacting Yannick on this with no results. We got the OK to include his plugin with AKDJ, but that's about as far as we've gotten with him.

Ideally, I'd like phy to share source code with us, and we share with him, this way we could add features to better enhance our products to work with each other.

***Features i'd like to see for both plugins.

*Redo the mp3+g plugin as an AVS ape. (This would allow you to overlay both in front of and behind the lyrics)

*Channel 0 color locking. Set channel 0 to RGB 0,0,0 and every CDG will have it as it's background.

***CDG Disk reader plugin enhancements

*CDG disk cache (pop in a customers CDG, enque a track on winamp, cached to disk before playing, hand it back to them, sort of like MTU.
*CDG Ripper and Zipper

GungHo · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Weymouth, UK

OK Zug & Toq....here's some info .....now go and do it !
http://www.jbum.com/cdg_revealed.html

GH

Everything is easy as long as it's someone else's job to do it ! Very Happy

ZuGzUg · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 312

GungHo · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Weymouth, UK

I was thinking it might be easier than that....maybe reading a few bytes somewhere from the cdg file to determine the background colour.
Confused

GH

DanG2006 · Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 37

palasx · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

I made a post about this elsewhere very recently, i guess i should have searched better.

this would be a fairly difficult hack w/o the source for in_cdg, but it could be done, it would have to be STATIC though, and not user config'able. set it to something weird liek 13/14/15 and it woudlnt conflict with any other color.

i dont think the other cdg plugin would work, because its not gdi, its directshow

toqer · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 427

Frank told me how he did his...

Basically he just checks the color of the upper right corner of the CDG, then replaces that color with whatever BMP the user has chosen.

Same could be done with the PHY systeme renderer. External program waits for winamp to do a title change, scans the upper right corner for the color, then applies that RGB value to the AVS overlay section of the winamp.ini.

From there it's just a simple matter of restarting AVS for the changes to take effect.