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I don't see a way to select a video as a screensaver.
Having the fireplace or aquarium video set as a screensaver would be cool.
Being a c/java developer I would like to give this ago. If there are no reasons why I shouldn't, Ill start.
Any comments guys?
Thanks
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Screensaver activation is done by the screensaver functions in Application.cpp
I'd do something somewhat similar to what is done for the slideshow one.
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Would be awesome if there was an aquarium screensaver!
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I can play a video as a screensaver on my xbmc snapshot view atm but having troubles creating new options in GUISettings.cpp
Are you guys on IRC or something else?
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In latest SVN you don't want to create settings in there anyway - the settings are handled via an XML file in the addon itself. See addons/screensaver.xbmc.builtin.*.
And yes, if you want development help via IRC, holler in #xbmc on freenode and someone will point you to a dev.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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My friend, Omar Patryn, was wondering if you can have an interactive screensaver. I know it sounds a little counter-intuitive, given that a screensaver is on when you're not using the computer, and interacting with it should by default turn off the screensaver.
Anyway, the idea was to have a screensaver that could react to sound through your microphone. So say it was a pond, if you made a loud thump, there would be a splash on the screen. Or something similar. Is this possible?
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Why not just have a setting that allows the screen saver trigger to execute a shortcut within the normal API of XBMC such as run shortcut X (for launching some interactive program screen saver as stated above) or play playlist, ect.
