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mjpd1
03-06-2003, 07:43 PM
This file is located in the Downloads section, under Misc Videos at mjpd.com. While this isn't a screensaver in the traditional sense, it does look cool and it works! What I've done is created a cool little animation, looped it, and imported it into Kinoma. Just play it thru Kinoma, and make sure "Loop Movie Playback" is checked. I'm still playing with this idea, and I'm trying a few others out, but this is pretty cool for starters. Check it out and let me know what you think!

http://www.mjpd.com/images/screensaver1.jpg

I suggest only letting this play for short periods of time, as I've had to reset my Clie after letting it play for 15 minutes or more. So use at your own risk!

WARNING! While watching my beautiful screensaver, my screen froze. I had to reset my device, and now when I try to start Kinoma, I'm getting a Fatal Exception. I have no idea why. I've e-mailed Support at Kinoma to see if they've ever tried anything like this. So for the time being, try this out, but NOT FOR A LONG TIME! I'll let you know when I hear from Kinoma...
mjpd1
03-06-2003, 07:54 PM
Sorry, but I've removed this file for the time being until I can figure out why I'm getting Fatal Exceptions...:mad:
mjpd1
03-06-2003, 09:42 PM
Ok, I reinstalled Kinoma, and everything is functioning again. I think I narrowed down why my screensaver froze up after 10 minutes. I think it had something to do with the fact that the screensaver video was located on the Memory Stick. I have since moved the screensaver into my RAM, and as of the time of this post, it has been running flawlessly for 36 minutes. I'm testing it for an hour just to be sure. Once I have finished testing it, I'll put it back up on my website for download...

EDIT: After running the video for over an hour and a half without any complications, I have reuploaded this to the Downloads section on my site. Go to Videos/Misc. and download Screensaver.zip. Treat the file like any other Kinoma video, except make sure you run it from your Clie's RAM, and NOT the Memory Stick! Also, check "Loop Movie Playback" in Kinoma Player's preferences. And let me know what you think!
rikster2002
03-09-2003, 07:43 AM
I ran this from my memory stick and I got a fatal and had to do a cold reset and had to re-install everything. a learning experience for a n00b. hope it doesn't happen to anyone else :-(
Pseudo Nim
03-09-2003, 08:38 AM
Guess you didn't read his post =)
rikster2002
03-09-2003, 10:06 AM
exactly,, i suck :-)
mjpd1
03-10-2003, 09:52 AM
Hehe, I can't do much more than put warnings on here, on my site, on the download link itself, and in the README file I included with the zip:)
rikster2002
03-10-2003, 04:36 PM
Originally posted by mjpd1
Hehe, I can't do much more than put warnings on here, on my site, on the download link itself, and in the README file I included with the zip:)

Like I said,, I suck :-)
mjpd1
03-10-2003, 04:58 PM
Well do you have it working now? And do you like it? I just found out about a hack, located at http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/idlehack.shtml, which allows you to launch a program after 3 minutes instead of the Clie just turning itself off. Of course, just launching Kinoma doesn't help much; I want to launch Kinoma and THEN the screensaver vid. So I'm gonna have to play with it a bit...