Aerial For Windows
Aerial For Windows is a Windows screen saver inspired by John Coates' Aerial. It is based on the new Apple TV screen saver that displays the aerial movies Apple shot over New York, San Francisco, Hawaii, China, etc.
As John's work, Aerial For Windows is open source.
Installation
Using the Setup
Execute the latest setup (*.msi) from the Releases page.
After successful installation the setup will open the Screen Saver Settings automatically.
Manual Installation
- Download the latest release (*.scr) from the Releases page
- Unblock the .scr file by opening its properties and clicking Unblock
- Right-click on the downloaded .scr file and select Install
Features
- Auto Load Latest Aerials: The movies are loaded directly from Apple whenever the screen saver starts.
- Time of day: There are different movies for day and night. You can choose to show movies matching the current time (thresholds are 7am and 7pm).
- Select screens: If you've got multiple screens, you can select whether there's a movie played only on the primary screen, the same move on all screens, or a different movie on each screen.
- Auto-update: Both the movie window and the settings dialog show a notification when an update is available.
- Local Caching: Option to cache the movies locally. Note: This required at least 12 GB of free disk space.
Compatibility
Aerial For Windows is written in C# targeting .NET framework 4.5.
Planned Features
- Selection of favorite locations
Community
- Find a bug? Open an issue. Try to be as specific as possible.
- Have a feature request? Open an issue. Tell me why this feature would be useful, and why you and others would want it.
Contribute
I appreciate all pull requests.
Changelog
- April 23, 2017 - v0.6
- Added option to play movie on one random screen (#5)
- Added option to switch off screens after a configurable interval (#6)
- October 23, 2016 - v0.5
- Added choice to either play the same video in a loop, or show a new one.
- Added option to show blank screen in remote desktop sessions
- June 19th, 2016 - v0.4
- Added local caching
- June 17th, 2016 - v0.3
- Show update notification
- Settings are now stored in the file system (at
%LOCALAPPDATA%\AerialForWindows) instead of the registry - Added logging (in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\AerialForWindowstoo)
- November 3rd, 2015 - v0.2
- added Setup
- show error when movie playback fails
- October 29th, 2015 - v0.1
- First release