SKY HD Screensaver

Haggisman · 30 Sep 2006 at 03:11

I'll be very surprised if no one has made one of these yet, but does anyone know if i can get a screensaver (or VERY high res video clip) of the swirly-changey-colourey thing that SKY use on their HD adverts. I'm not sure if this would maybe breach copyright, so mods delete if needed. And yes...I know there are some on the SKY website...they suck =p

WotDa · 30 Sep 2006 at 03:30

They'd look stupendous on a decent monitor.

Haggisman · 1 Oct 2006 at 04:12

thats the general idea, i want it running on my belinea @ 1680x1050 ^^

Pookie Bear · 1 Oct 2006 at 08:16

Have you tried ElectricSheep?
Similar patterny kinda thing, and it pdates itself all the time with new ones.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:37

Skidmark said:
Have you tried ElectricSheep?
Similar patterny kinda thing, and it pdates itself all the time with new ones.

That looks quality, downloading now

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:41

I wonder how long it takes to "download the first sheep"

Zip · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:43

Tommy B said:
I wonder how long it takes to "download the first sheep"

Well it seems the New Zealanders have Learnt to "upload a sheep" in a few minutes so "downloading a sheep" shouldnt take too long at all

sarutobi · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:45

do robots dream of electric sheep?

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:49

lol, seriously though it has been downloading the first sheep for ages!

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 12:55

This programme is crap. It doesn't have any information on the downloading progress, for all I know it can't even connect to the server, and you can't manually download and apply sheep either :mad:

Matt · 1 Oct 2006 at 13:04

If you have to use a screensaver then use Flurry

titchard · 1 Oct 2006 at 14:48

theDave said:
do androids dream of electric sheep?

Corrected.

Rich

sarutobi · 1 Oct 2006 at 14:58

titchard said:
Corrected.

Rich

close enough

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:31

Tommy B said:
This programme is crap. It doesn't have any information on the downloading progress, for all I know it can't even connect to the server, and you can't manually download and apply sheep either

make sure that if you have NAT and don't have UPnP on it, the ports are open.

worked for me btw.
it may take a while though.

have a look at one of my sheep:
http://media.putfile.com/Electric-Sheep-movie
http://uploadfile.putfile.com/videos/27310450368.mpg

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:47

Aod said:
make sure that if you have NAT and don't have UPnP on it, the ports are open.

worked for me btw.
it may take a while though.

have a look at one of my sheep:
http://media.putfile.com/Electric-Sheep-movie

Do you have to actually run the screensaver for it to download or does it work in the background?

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:48

the screensaver has to run.

does it say in white square text in the top left corner "Downloading first sheep"?

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:53

Aod said:
the screensaver has to run.

does it say in white square text in the top left corner "Downloading first sheep"?

Yes, it does.

VeNT · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:54

uses too much CPU time tbh, GET FOLDING DAMN YOU ALL

Aod · 1 Oct 2006 at 15:54

then leave it for an hour or two while it downloads.

every 4 seconds of sheep is over 4Megs. there's a lot to download.

VeNT said:
uses too much CPU time tbh, GET FOLDING DAMN YOU ALL

Never!!!

Tommy B · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:02

I still don't "get" this programme.

It downloaded and started showing a nice pattern, but what next? Does it just repeat it over and over again?