Screening Room™is a video screensaver package that will allow you to use any set of QuickTime™ movies as your screensaver. It was designed so that movies on the multimedia tracks of the new E-CD’s, or Enhanced-CD’s being released by record companies could be used as screensavers. It is a control panel/extension combination that installs onto your boot drive.
Screening Room‚Ñ¢ v1.2.7 incorporates a number of new enhancements. Screening Room‚Ñ¢ v1.2.7 is a fully functional copy that does not expire, that you may use for evaluaton, if you use it past 30 days please register your copy. If you don't register, it will still function, but will remind you to register your copy on startup. I hope you will like it, and register it.
Installation
If you wish to install this version over any version prior to v1.2.6, follow the instructions below otherwise just run the v1.2.7 installer.
For installation over any version prior to v1.2.6, please use the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Maintainer application for that version to remove all old components. You can find the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Maintainer application in the folder named "Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Δí" that was placed onto your desktop during the previous installation. Then find the "Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Prefs" file in the system folder and move it to the trash.
Once versions prior to v1.2.6 have been removed using the above method you may run the v1.2.7 installer.
Requirements
Any Power Macintosh computer or Macintosh with a 68020 or above.
Quicktime 2.0 or above (v2.5 preferred)
Registration
The registration fee for this version of Screening Room‚Ñ¢ is $10.
To register your copy send e-mail to nv@mindspring.com, with the subject of the message as "SR Reg" for further instructions.
Please be sure to include the Serial Number for your copy of Screening Room‚Ñ¢; it can be found by opening the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ control panel. Once your payment is received you will be e-mailed the registration code.
Once you have obtained a registration code, just use the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Maintainer application to register your copy. You can find the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Maintainer application in the folder named "Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Δí" that is placed onto your desktop during installation.
Screening Room‚Ñ¢ may be re-distributed on any on-line service or the internet as long as this file is included, unmodified, along with the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ Installer. Screening Room‚Ñ¢ MAY NOT be distributed on any CD, diskette, or like removable media, without the express written consent of its author Nixy Varghese.
The only exception to the above is that you may feel free to distribute it to friends, family and coworkers.
Version History
v1.2.7 - Third major public release. Fully functional copy that no longer expires. Added Pong and Pong Trail effects. Added option to randomize the effects. Added natural size option for movie playback which allows Screening Room‚Ñ¢ to determine the frame size for a movie automattically. Added Zoom option when natrual size is selected. Random play will not repeat a movie until all the movies have been played.
v1.2.6 - Second major public release.
v1.2.5 - Limited public release. Installer now FAT for support of PPC's and 68020's and above. Changed serialization scheme, to be more intelligent. Added installer code to remove old style prefs file. Corrected notification manager call glitch.
v1.2.4 - Added support for 68020 and above systems - limited release.
v1.2.3 - Initial public release. Supported PPC systems only.
v1.0 ->1.2.2 - In house releases used as demos to record companies and general media.
Bug reports
If you find any bugs please report it to nv@mindspring.com, with the subject of the message as "SR Bug"
PLEASE NOTE: Screening Room‚Ñ¢ will not deactivate the screensaver on mouse movement, this was done on purpose, since I have found it to be annoying to have the screensaver terminate when I just accidently bumped the mouse. It will deactivate on all other stuff like mouse press, key press, etc.
Selecting the location of your movies
1. Create a folder to contain your movies
2. Put either your movies or aliases to your movies into the folder that you just created
3. Open the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ control panel and click on the Folder button
4. Select the folder you created in the get directory dialog
Setting the screensaver delay
Enter the hours, minutes, and second in the area labeled Delay. The default is 5 minutes. Use the tab key to move from hours -> minutes -> seconds. Please note the changes indicated here or in any of the other textedit boxes do not take effect until you click on a non-textedit item.
Options
Screening Room‚Ñ¢ has a number of options that will allow you to modify the way in which your movies are played back.
Randomize
Play: When this box is checked, Screening Room‚Ñ¢ randomly shuffles the movies in your movie folder, in a similar fashion as the shuffle button on a CD player.
Location: When this box is checked, your movies are placed in a random location on your screen when they are played. If the box is unchecked then the movie will always play in the center of the screen.
Effects: When checked, it will cause Screening Room‚Ñ¢ to pick display effects randomly. Note that while this is selected the effects options are inaccessible.
Box: When checked, the x and y dimensions of your movies are altered in a random manner during playback, a really cool effect when combined with the scatter option. Note that when this option is checked, the size options are inaccessible.
Effects
Pong: When this option is checked the display frame will float across the screen until it hits a border, at which time it will take on a new direction and velocity. Note that this option is mutually exclusive with the Scatter option.
Pong Trail: This option is only available if the Pong option is selected. When selected, it causes the display frame to leave a trail as it pongs across the screen.
Residual Frame: When this option is checked the last frame of each movie is left on the screen. This results in a collage effect on screen. If the box is unchecked, the background is cleared after each movie.
Scatter: When checked this option will scatter the frames of a movie all around the screen, and when combined with the Randomize Box option, its really cool. Note that this option is mutually exclusive with the Pong option.
Display
Natural: When this box is checked, Screening Room‚Ñ¢ will determine the natural size of the movie automatically and will play it at that size. Note that the Randomize Box option below will not be available when Natural is selected; also since the size will be determined by Screening Room‚Ñ¢ the Size options below will not be available while this option is selected.
Size
This option is only available if the Randomize Box and Display Natural options are unchecked. When available it allows you to specify the playback size of the movie. You can choose between 320 x 240, 640 x 480, or Other. If you select other then enter the desired x and y dimensions in the textedit boxes. If you like to watch letterboxed movies then use x and y values at a 2:1 ratio (ex. 600 x 300, 800 x 400).
Zoom
This option is only available if the Display Natural option is selected. When available it allows you to zoom the movie by integral units of it natrual size.
Volume
In this textedit box specify a number in the range 0-9, with 0 being no sound, and 9 being maximum volume. This only has an effect if your movie has a sound track. The playback volume is relative to the volume set in the sound control panel. e.g. If the sound control panel volume is 5 and the Screening Room‚Ñ¢ volume is set to 9, then the absolute volume that you will hear is level 5.
Liability and Warranties
The author of Screening Room‚Ñ¢ makes no warranties, express or implied, including without limitation the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, regarding the software. The author of Screening Room‚Ñ¢ does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations regarding the use or results of the use of the software in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. The entire risk as to the result and performance of the software is assumed by you.
In no event will the author of Screening Room‚Ñ¢ be liable to you for any consequential, incidental, direct or indirect damages (including damages for loss of profits, interruption, loss of information, and the like) arising out of use of the software.
Simply put, every effort has been made to make sure that Screening Room™ works properly, but if something goes wrong, I’m not going to be held accountable, in any event. By installing and using this software you agree to this.
