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INQ features in music visualiser

Listen to your music with Alt+0181 going crazy
Tue Oct 16 2007, 22:41

JONATAN WALLMANDER HAS been reading the INQ ever since Mageek took it online, but the lad also grew tired of all those slow visuals that come bundled with MP3 players on the market.

As usually happens in our industry, if you're bored with something, you will go and change it or make something new.

Jonathan's answer to visual plug-ins inside bloated players is named VSX Ultra or VSXu, and latest version is 0.1.16 beta, visualiser that listens to the soundcard itself. With this move, VSXu Player module is compatible with every media player out there.

alt='micro_inq'Micron gets down

We tried starting VSXu while Media Player, WinAMP and Real Player were running every time - VSX would correctly start its own visuals and you could enjoy in OpenGL goodness. This app did not significantly load any of our CPU cores, a welcome change from mis-programmed apps that lock one core to 100% while changing songs.

alt='vsxu001'11% CPU utilization during song change and extremely fast response time - that's a visual plug-in!

This visualiser also sports support for two independent monitors for VJ purposes - usage of two graphics cards is recommended (disable the SLI/Crossfire and just run the VSXu).

Anyway, we would wholeheartedly recommend that you go and download the app, and see for yourself is it worth it or not. Use our complementary L’Inqs below. µ

L’INQ
Main Player Site
VSXu Player for regular folk
INQ visual (Just copy into \visuals\folder in VSXu folder. For example, C\Program Files\vsxu\visuals
More visuals

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No offence, can u update the CPU card with Pentium III :P. My Portege 2000 with P3 766m + 256 SDram, can not play ANY visualiser from Media player 11 to any media player that (C) 2007.

posted by : Hok, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Media player

Who mentioned media player 11, try using media player classic which you can get from www.free-codecs.com within the Klite codec pack.

posted by : Braindeed, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
Of course it's not going to load your CPU

Of course it's not going to load your CPU...you have FOUR CORES.

posted by : mike, 17 October 2007 Complain about this comment
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