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errorik
October 24th, 2008, 12:57 AM
After uploaded 400+ photos to my aTV box, and changing the screen saver directory to my photos folder, I noticed two things:

A) My screen saver just displayed as black most of the time. Occasionally I would get an image that would appear. The pattern is consistent: all black, except for lower res images taken with my camera phone... I expect the black is the system trying to hi-res images (full 8 MP images).

B) When ever I would return to my TV after any extended period of time, I would find more often than not (um, like 4:1) that Boxee has exited with an error code (11,10,4). I did not experience this before when using the default Boxee images for the screen saver.

So above is one bug.

Bug #2... there is no way to change the screen saver directory back to the default dir of "/Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/media/boxee_screen_saver" with the Boxee interface. I am pretty sure I tried everything.

My solution to both of the above is to have iPhoto export lower res photos for Boxee. Also, I created a sub-dir to the "/Users/frontrow/Pictures/" dir and copied all the boxee screensaver png files to it so I have that option (however family photos is the preferred choice).

marcel
October 24th, 2008, 07:43 AM
hi errorik

Thanks for the detailed report.

Can you create another folder and just add a few (10-20) low-res photos just to make sure that it displays all the photo and also to check if it crashes ...

from settings>appearance>screen saver you can move through you directories selecting the upper most icon returns you one level up..

nice solution...:)

errorik
October 24th, 2008, 10:36 AM
Can you create another folder and just add a few (10-20) low-res photos just to make sure that it displays all the photo and also to check if it crashes ...


Yes, I already deleted all the hi-res images and exported lower-res versions for boxee... screen saver works great now, it ran most of the night, turned on my TV this AM, no crash



from settings>appearance>screen saver you can move through you directories selecting the upper most icon returns you one level up..


I will try this again, but on the aTV it wont let you browse higher than the /frontrow/ directory - I am almost positive

marcel
October 24th, 2008, 10:43 AM
i believe you can browse to "/" ...:) i have no atv in front of me .. i wait for you to check