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Aerial Apple TV screen saver for Windows
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Aerial Screensaver for offline use? #94

Open francisdeiv opened 7 years ago

francisdeiv commented 7 years ago

Hi there! I really love your screensaver but I have one major problem. The internet here in Philippines is really really slow. I'm using a windows pc btw. I've seen here that you can download the .mov files and aerial automatically finds the downloaded video but doesnt seem to work on my pc. https://github.com/cDima/Aerial/issues/55 Also it wont start a preview or start at all if there is no internet connection. So itll be really helpful to have that offline feature! Thanks mate! Have a good one! :)

kathampy commented 7 years ago

Same problem. The JSON file doesn't seem to be cached. Thus the screen saver gets stuck on a black screen if the Internet is down. Sometime there is no way to quit either. I've had to reset my PC since I simply couldn't exit the black screen.

cDima commented 7 years ago

@kathampy I think we can cache the json file as well, an update it a bit later after starting. I don't think it's possible to support full offline mode, we can't redistribute the videos from Apple.

kathampy commented 7 years ago

It just needs to work offline after an initial cache is created.

provalinf commented 7 years ago

Hello, Same problem in France, I do not have the internet everywhere I go with my laptop, and at home the connection is very bad (less than 1 mb / s). If possible, the cached videos should be reserved for offline use, and after that will be perfect! Thanks again for your great work.

cDima commented 7 years ago

@kathampy @provalinf @francisdeiv i've added downloading and caching of the entities.json file for offline use; the next release should work now without internet connectivity after the initial download.

asuryadi commented 7 years ago

Hi, I am having the same issue. My home internet has a download quota - so running this screen saver will over blow my data quota.... However, already see nearly all the videos to be cached.

Is it possible to set the setting to "offline" mode so it'll just play the cached videos only without absorbing any of my data?

Many thanks

cDima commented 7 years ago

Offline mode would be a good idea, if it can switch automatically for example... How will you know if it's in offline mode or not, only from settings?

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Hi, I am having the same issue. My home internet has a download quota - so running this screen saver will over blow my data quota.... However, already see nearly all the videos to be cached.

Is it possible to set the setting to "offline" mode so it'll just play the cached videos only without absorbing any of my data?

Many thanks

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asuryadi commented 7 years ago

Hmmm, automatic would be great.

However, having the user set it would be good. For example, i am online but i would like the screensaver to go 'offline' so my download is not interrupted

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Offline mode would be a good idea, if it can switch automatically for example... How will you know if it's in offline mode or not, only from settings?

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 8:42 PM asuryadi notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, I am having the same issue. My home internet has a download quota - so running this screen saver will over blow my data quota.... However, already see nearly all the videos to be cached.

Is it possible to set the setting to "offline" mode so it'll just play the cached videos only without absorbing any of my data?

Many thanks

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amaan6999 commented 7 years ago

@cDima I know that the option has been added, yet with the internet connection disabled, I cant seem to get the aerial screensaver started. Even though everything has been cached locally :( Is this still being worked on?

jonathonwpowell commented 7 years ago

A manual caching of all the files is in the works, hopefully it will be in the next release

Knaledge commented 6 years ago

What is the status of this @cDima / @jonathonwpowell ?

On Kodi 17.6 (and 18 alpha 2), FireTV Stick 4K:

However, with the above configuration in place, the following occurs:

Each of those two issues have been opened after 94 (this issue) was opened - yet each has been closed as a dupe to this issue (94). However, there seems to be no further progress on this issue (94).

What is the ETA?

Landius commented 5 years ago

Since this repo haven't update for so long, I've turn to another software that perfectly solve this problem: Video Screensaver

joerchnet commented 5 years ago

Video Screensaver has no options, no multiscreen support, no cropping on widescreen, and so on... but works.

cbermar commented 5 years ago

When I try to download one of the movies manually, it complains about site not being trusted because of CA - https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D011_C010_PSNK_DENOISE_v19_SDR_PS_20180914_SDR_2K_AVC.mov. "This site is not secure"

teevc commented 5 years ago

@kathampy I think we can cache the json file as well, an update it a bit later after starting. I don't think it's possible to support full offline mode, we can't redistribute the videos from Apple.

That's technically incorrect, as distribution and usage of files happens asynchronously.