*.scr support (ie Windows screensavers) in XBMC?

screensave...hmm this would be nice as the background in a skin. Imagine the famous aquarium screensaver running in the aeon skin. That would make xbmc come to life (more than the still fanart slideshow does). Both mce and playstation3 have a moving background...so that would be nice feature in xbmc as well.

/needtotest

i too would like to see or learn how to do this as well. i've got SoundSpectrum Whitecap that i'd like to implement into XBMC.
http://www.soundspectrum.com/whitecap/

WiSo Wrote:XBMC has already it's open screen saver API and one "just" need to code or port an existing saver to this API and OpenGL.
Nothing is planned in this direction but we always accept patches

Do you have any suggestions on how to create a patch or point me in the right direction to learn how to do this?

See:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Vortex_Visua...evelopment
as well as:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=137
and:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=7552

Also these articles in the wiki (XBMC Online Manual):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Appendix_D:_...ment_Notes
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_debug..._Libraries
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Basic_overvi...DLL_Loader

...and you can of course get the full source code of all existing visualizations and screensavers from XBMC's SVN:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=SVN

venealis Wrote:i too would like to see or learn how to do this as well. i've got SoundSpectrum Whitecap that i'd like to implement into XBMC.
http://www.soundspectrum.com/whitecap/

FYI; someone actually started coding a WhiteCap vis for XBMC but they never finished, you can still get their unfinished code here:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/980

Happy coding!

PS! Note that currently XBMC for Xbox only supports Direct3D/DirectX visualizations and screensavers. While XBMC for Linux, XBMC for Mac, and XBMC for Windows currently only support OpenGL visualizations and screensavers.