Not Playing on Bootcamp

[anon1y4012]

I get a blank screen in both preview and the actual screen saver, is there a reason this wouldn't work while running Windows in Bootcamp?

[OrangeJedi]

I don't see why it wouldn't work because of Bootcamp...

Can you open the screensaver settings window? Can you preview any of the preinstalled screensavers?

[anon1y4012]

Yes, playing the videos in the settings screen works just fine. Another thing I just noticed, when I check the "Disable All Video Processing" box, the preview will not show a black screen, it just stays on the current view of the desktop.

The preinstalled Windows 10 screensavers preview fine.

[OrangeJedi]

Using the "Disable All Video Processing" switches the video player, so the black v. transparent window makes sense. It seems to be a problem with the videos loading, though it is curious that they play fine in the settings window.

Try running aerial.scr /t /dt /nq in command prompt in the location of the aerial.scr file. It should open the screensaver in a smaller window and as well as a console that should log any errors. If you could screenshot or copy any errors you get that would be super helpful.

[anon1y4012]

Ok, I now see a still screen of one of the videos, which begins playing after about 1 minute, and this shows up in the console.

DevTools failed to parse SourceMap: file:///C:/Users/John/Downloads/aerial-v0.5.2/aerial-v0.5.2/resources/app/web/uri.all.js.map

[anon1y4012]

FWIW, the command line also show the following after exiting the preview window.

(electron) The default value of app.allowRendererProcessReuse is deprecated, it is currently "false". It will change to be "true" in Electron 9. For more information please check https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397

[OrangeJedi]

Both or those messages aren't related to the problem. You say the video starts playing after a minute or so? Could it be an issue related to a slow internet connection? It doesn't seem to be a problem with aerial its' self. You could try and see if enabling the cache or downloading a video helps.

[anon1y4012]

Could be a cache issue, as I selected "Always Download" and now it appears to work in the Preview mode. I'll keep an eye on it to see if it's fixed for good, thanks for your help.

[OrangeJedi]

Awesome. I'll take a look at the cache code and see if anything there might be the culprit. In the meantime I'll close the issue. Re-open it if you're still have the same problem.

[anon1y4012]

In case anyone comes here with the same issue, the solution for me was to toggle all videos to "Always Download", and to turn off "Disable all Video Processing".