Comments on: Eternity Screensaver

By: Garry

Garry — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:41:43 +0000

More usplash themes on the way in time for Hardy.

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said — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:23:35 +0000

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By: Garry

Garry — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:46:44 +0000

It’s great to hear that you’ve been able to get it working. This is the first time I’ve heard of somebody using the Eternity screensaver to play their own stuff. Nice one!

By: Atspy

Atspy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:41:58 +0000

Beautiful, your script worked wonderfully. The quality of my video looks much better than before. I’ve now inserted another video in between the eternity videos.

Thanks!

By: Atspy

Atspy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:51:23 +0000

Wow! That is great!

I was going a much longer route trying to add a video to my wife’s laptop. I was trying to pull all my png images into stopmotion and generate an mpeg from there. From there I was trying to generate the mpeg-ps from the resulting file. This just ended up with horrible video quality (and that quite possible could be error on my part too).

I’m going to give your script a shot tonight and see if I fair any better.

By: Garry

Garry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:07:30 +0000

Cheers Atspy,

Yes, the animations are MPEG2. I hacked the player from electric sheep so that it reads a list of anims from a config file and loops them without any pauses. So, the format of the animations is exactly the same as the sheep on electric sheep. This is an MPEG2-PS format. I use the following script to convert a list of png files generated by POVRay into MPEG2:

http://ubuntusatanic.org/satanic-files/eternity-gen

It uses ffmpeg to convert them to MPEG-TS and then mencoder to convert them to MPEG-PS. It’s the only way I could get the electricsheep player to play them, but it works. Note that the script only works if you have >100 png files. Change the %3d.png to %2d.png if you have less.

I’ve been working on a player which plays Ogg Theora (open MPEG4 format) files, which should allow for higher resolution clips without the size getting too large. So, that’s the next project.

By: Atspy

Atspy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:13:42 +0000

Love the screensaver! The only one worth having as far as I’m concerned.

How are the animations encoded? Mpeg2, I think, but can you share some more details on the format/bitrate/etc?

By: Gareth Doutch

Gareth Doutch — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:21:09 +0000

Cheers Garry, you’re a saint of darkness!!! >:)