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Aerial Apple TV screen saver for Windows
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Aerial v6.1 won't start nor Preview #149

Open joergbattermann opened 6 years ago

joergbattermann commented 6 years ago

Just did a fresh Win10 installation (v1709 Build 16299.19) and installed v6.1 of the Aerial Screensaver but for some reason.. it doesn't run at all with this fresh install.

Eventviewer entry says the following:

Application: Aerial.scr
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
   at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CoCreateInstance(System.Guid ByRef, System.Object, Int32, System.Guid ByRef)
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithLicense(System.String, System.Guid)
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstanceCore(System.Guid)
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstance()
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetOcxCreate()
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.TransitionUpTo(Int32)
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateHandle()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean)
   at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.EndInit()
   at ScreenSaver.ScreenSaverForm.InitializeComponent()
   at ScreenSaver.ScreenSaverForm..ctor()
   at ScreenSaver.ScreenSaverForm..ctor(IntPtr)
   at ScreenSaver.Program.Main(System.String[])

Is there anything that might be missing on my system or what might be going on here?

Thanks, -J

hoytler commented 6 years ago

Try going to Add Features -> Add option features -> And adding Windows Media Player. It seems that this ScreenSaver has a dependency on WMP.

joergbattermann commented 6 years ago

Ahhh.. that makes sense - I got a 'N' version of Windows 10 (European one without WMP by default installation).. will try it and report back if that helped. Thanks!

cDima commented 6 years ago

Thanks, I'll try to wrap this up as a better exception with a link to a readme.

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Ahhh.. that makes sense - I got a 'N' version of Windows 10 (European one without WMP by default installation).. will try it and report back if that helped. Thanks!

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joergbattermann commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately that was not it.. or not completely. Installed the Windows Media Player Feature, rebooted.. but still getting the exact same aforementioned exception.

Is there any other dependency the screensaver has that might be missing?

joergbattermann commented 6 years ago

Ah alright - as it turns out merely adding the 'Windows Media Player Feature' in Windows 10 itself is not enough for Windows N and KN versions - you need to get the appropriate 'Media Feature Pack for N edition of Windows 10' corresponding to your version of Windows 10 (RTM, Creator's Update, etc).

This will install the missing ActiveX components and then it works!

JeremyNGalloway commented 6 years ago

@hoytler Re-enabling WMP fixed my issue on Win10. No restart needed. ty.

jminternelia commented 6 years ago

I am having this issue now. Non-N/KN. 10.0.17134

Windows Media Player is installed.