by DiamondDrake
6. November 2010 18:58
Quite a few years back AnalogX wrote a video screen saver that used windows media player 7 as an active x control to play any video file as a screen saver. I really liked this idea, but who has Windows Media Player 7? A year ago I wrote a DirectX version of a video screen saver that matched the functionality of analog x's screen saver. That wasn't good enough for me. There just is no way to gaurantee a decent supply of codecs are available on a system. Yesterday I re-wrote my Video Screen Saver from the ground up based completely on Video Lan Player's core libraries. It makes for a larger download, but it almost guarantees that whatever video files you have will play. All in all, I think it works very well, although I am sure there are a few bugs that I haven't discovered yet.
In a future release I intend to trim the amount of plugins provided, thus decreasing the download size. I can easily trim about 5mb, but I need to experiement for the right balance of plugins. I would love to get some feedback on this screen saver. Feel free to post comments here on the blog, or for a private or more simple way to leave feedback, use the feedback feature of the screen saver it's self; Located in the Video Screen Savers configuration dialog box.
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