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OrangeJedi / Aerial

Apple TV screen saver for Windows
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Screensaver starts while watching movie on VLC #140

Closed gsbernstein closed 1 year ago

gsbernstein commented 1 year ago

Describe the bug Screensaver does not respect playing media

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. start a movie in vlc
  2. wait for configured screensaver delay

Expected behavior Movie should not be interrupted

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Aerial Version 1.2

Additional context Is it possible to use the native windows screensaver feature to control when the screensaver shows up? Seems hacky having a separate program trying to replicate that behavior.

OrangeJedi commented 1 year ago

See #114, this is a known issue. Lots of people were seeing massive performance hit when running as a native Windows screensaver (#36), hence the switch to the launching application.

This comment has instructions on how to run Aerial as a native screensaver if you want (it is fairly easy), or you could use the suspend option in the system tray menu. I am currently looking at options to make this smoother in the future.

gsbernstein commented 1 year ago

Well apparently it also starts while playing VR. And it goes into a deeper sleep than my computer normally does. Unfortunately I'm gonna have to switch back to @cdima's version

Edit: just saw your comment, I'll try that

gsbernstein commented 1 year ago

Thank you! Works great, no performance issues, respects all the configuration, and the settings button works to launch your custom config. Was just a little tricky because cDima's version was still there so at first it was unclear if it had actually replaced it or not, but I deleted the old one and renamed the new one and it worked.