treason 11 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Some of my backdrops are from horror movies, which are not suitable for children to see. Is there any way to customize what is displayed, or disable the screensaver all together? TIA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swynol 375 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 not at the moment, I have raised this before and I think it was on one of the low priority list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jvtm 13 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Bump. I have unchecked the screensaver option box in the configurations menu, restarted both the software and the PC, returned to the MBC software, confirmed that screensaver is not enabled and yet the screensaver continues to start up. Any way to make the screensaver permanently stay off? I'm running the latest version of MBC available as of this posting. Win7 Pro 64bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlionblue 80 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Some of my backdrops are from horror movies, which are not suitable for children to see. Is there any way to customize what is displayed, or disable the screensaver all together? TIA Workaround that I use. Make a "children" with no password and access only to child friendly stuff. When you're done watching, log out. Now the kids only get child friendly screen saver images, and can't watch anything adult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taobear 0 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 What I also note is that since some time the screen saver is only showing on the PC but not on the TV itself. I am not sure when it changed - in the beginning it was showing the Screen Saver on the TV if I pause a movie too long. Anyone know the cause for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun 93 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) For Media Browser Theater, We are working on the screen saver infrastructure now. Part 1 - select between 1. No Screensaver 2. Use ScreenSaver (current one you see) 3. Logo screen saver so just use logo screen saver, and there will be no problem with inappropriate images Part 2. Add new photo screen saver Add screen saver options - i.e which folders, types of images, ratings (PG etc) Edited March 30, 2014 by Shaun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostm 74 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I think that no screen saver option will solve my issues and errors when mbt wakes from sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Shaun 93 Posted April 2, 2014 Solution Share Posted April 2, 2014 The latest dev build (3.0.5204.43083) has - Disable/customize Screensaver - implemented 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShanMan 34 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Part 2. Add new photo screen saver Add screen saver options - i.e which folders, types of images, ratings (PG etc) Sorry for reviving an old thread, but any idea when this might come? I would really like to give MBT a good try but my family is so addicted to the WMC photo screensaver that there is no way I can switch over. I hope it'll be as cool (if not cooler?) than the WMC one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun 93 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've been waiting for some architecture changes to be completed by tom before I resumed development, but I would be happy to finish the photo screen saver. I've done the basic work but have not put it into production because it need a bit of tuning. I've based it on the Apple TV photo screen saver. Why don't you send post a bunch of screen shots you like from the WMC screen saver and I'll see what I can do. it will be about a month, because tomorrow I off to fiji for a 2 week holiday with my family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShanMan 34 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Here is a video I took showing what WMC's screensaver looks like. As you can see, it has some sort of 2 dimensional layout of all your pictures (I have thousands so you only see a subset) and it meanders in B+W in a zoomed out view to one of the pictures, then zooms in to the picture. It then shows anywhere between 1 and 4 pics from that same period of time. Then moves on to a new picture (i.e. rinse and repeat). You can see all of this in the video I linked below. I like the way it lets you see the pics up close but it's also sort of mesmerizing to watch it randomly move through a bunch of zoomed out pictures until it selects one. I wasn't too impressed with the youtube video I saw of what Apple TV does. It doesn't seem to show pictures up close and stop on one to let you get a good look. If the Apple TV style is all you do I'd probably at least give it a try but my first impression is that I probably would go back to WMC to get that screensaver instead. Hopefully you'll like WMC's and want to do something like that, or at least incorporate some of the coolness of it into yours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTfmyFVYKgk Thanks for considering it! If you need anyone to do some testing, feel free to contact me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShanMan 34 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Any progress on this by chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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