Feature Request: .exe that plays videos

cDima / Aerial

Aerial Apple TV screen saver for Windows

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Feature Request: .exe that plays videos #35

Closed janpio closed 7 years ago

janpio commented 8 years ago

It would be great to have a normal resizable program window, maybe e fullscreen button, so you can watch them on second monitor while working on first one.

cDima commented 8 years ago

Cool idea. Any thoughts on UI for picking what to watch? Next/previous, downloaded, favorites as in the original mac screensaver?

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janpio commented 8 years ago

Start with 'just show random one in a program window' for a first version, then add stuff later.

I would prioritize additional features in this order:

Fullscreen
Next/prev
Favorites
Offline/Download

But you probably will be getting requests here as soon as it is released ;)

cDima commented 8 years ago

Please take a look at the latest build, it has a /w flag that shows a windowed interface with aerial videos inside. It's resizable and has a close button for now.

janpio commented 8 years ago

aerialv2.exe /w? That looks very nice already :) Even maximizing the windows already works! Thanks.

Feedback (Win 10):

Videos hangs quite often on Fullscreen, seems to be a "focus" problem. Clicking the window fixes it often.
Sometimes the task bar is visible over the fullscreen window
Fullscreen gets lost on video change in fullscreen
Change betweens videos is quite abrupt and a black screen (buffering?)

On to the rest oft the features ;)

Add this to the feature list:

No taskbar icon, only systray

Seriously, you just made this late night coding session so much better with this build :)

janpio commented 8 years ago

So 3.1 is out with "Bug fixes and new window move via /w flag!". How does the /w flag work on the .scr file? Just creating a shortcut and adding the /w behind the path didn't work for me.

cDima commented 8 years ago

@piotrowski the /w flag would work only on the .exe, a .scr is actually just a renamed .exe. Please rename to .exe and the /w flag should work. The video sometimes freezes for me still, the visible task-bar issue should be fixed, other issues to be addressed.

janpio commented 8 years ago

@cDima Yep, renaming to .exe fixed it. Funny that Windows seems to do special stuff to .scr files...