![]() ![]() That must have been what the developer of Aerial thought when creating this screen saver application that literally ports Apple TV elements to your Windows machine. For the moment, this part of the project was on hold, pending better solutions.There's no shame to be had when you find two mostly rival things are sometimes better together. I found that the free ones were unsatisfactory, for reasons Cawley stated, and I did not want to buy software for this purpose. Once I had the video in the desired form, MakeUseOf (Cawley, 2022) suggested several options. As described above, I could use a video editor to make the video to fade in and out as I wanted, and to change it in other ways (e.g., delete audio). It seemed I could also (or instead) use the desired video as wallpaper. Clicking it gave me a message, “Screensaver settings can be changed in IrfanView only, during the SCR creation.” The Preview button confirmed that video and audio in my new. That would open the Screen Saver Settings dialog, with this newly created screensaver set as the default.Įither way, in Screen Saver Settings, the Settings button would not allow me to change anything about the newly created screensaver. scr file to the desired location, I could right-click on the. ![]() I kept my data on drive D, so I could put the. scr file in a folder that would not die if Windows had to be reinstalled. scr file in C:\Windows\System32, but keep another copy in an Installation folder, not on drive C, where I stored various installation executables, settings, and other materials needed to reconstruct drive C.Īn alternative approach would be to store the. A solution to this problem would be to put a copy of the. That was less frequent these days, as Windows improved it was more likely I could fix Windows problems with a repair install. scr file in the default location was that, while it would be saved as part of a backup of drive C (for which I used AOMEI Backupper), it would vanish if I needed to reinstall Windows. (The Run dialog would save that entry for next time I wouldn’t have to remember it.)Ī problem with storing the. An arguably easier way to open Screen Saver Settings was to use Win-R > control > Enter. I could open that dialog by going into Windows Settings (i.e., WinKey-I) > Personalization > Lock screen > Screen saver settings. If I put it there, then it would be available automatically when I opened the Screen Saver Settings dialog. In Windows 10 (and apparently 11 as well), that default location was in C:\Windows\System32. One option would be to store it in the default location for. Now I needed to put it someplace appropriate. That gave me a file named Sound of One Tree Clapping.scr. Now, back in the main IrfanView window, click Save Slideshow as EXE/SCR > Create SCR file > specify desired output folder and filename > Create. All I had to do was make sure that Play Mode was set to Play in Full Screen Mode > click Full Screen Options button > choose option 4, “Stretch all images/movies to screen.” Then OK: that took care of the options. I didn’t remember what the original defaults were, so I couldn’t say for sure. Otherwise, in that IrfanView window, you may or may not want to adjust the default values. That showed the video file as the only one listed in the Slideshow Files box at the bottom right corner of the IrfanView window. Then I right-clicked on the edited video > Open with > find IrfanView > OK > pause it > menu > File > Slideshow > navigate to the folder and file (in my case, the Sound of One Tree Clapping video) (if necessary, click Files of Type to display All Files) > select that video file > Add. I had the option of saving it with the same specifications as the input file, which I could get by right-clicking on the input. I could also eliminate the audio at this point, if desired. I edited a copy of it (I used Adobe Premiere Elements) to fade in from black at the start and out to black at the end, eliminating text, so that it would loop (i.e., keep repeating) nicely. For demonstration purposes, I used The Sound of One Tree Clapping. (Pretty much the same procedure would also create a slideshow from a set of still images, and use that as the screensaver.)Ī video told me to proceed, in effect, as follows. The basic idea was to use IrfanView (with plugins offered on the IrfanView site) to convert the video file to an. Here, I explore both.įirst, as a screensaver. For that, I had two options: make it a screensaver, or make it my wallpaper. I wanted to see it play on my computer when the machine was idle. ![]()
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