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Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (2015)

66 points by rafaelc 9y ago

sneak 9y ago
see also: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
dmezzogori 9y ago
brew cask install aerial
- kintamanimatt 9y ago
  For those that are wondering: this installs these screensavers on MacOS. https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
  - rsync 9y ago
    Does it download the videos themselves onto your local mac or does it stream them like the AppleTV does ?
    - kintamanimatt 9y ago
      I've tried it out and it appears to stream them, however, there's an option to cache the videos locally.
    - kobeya 9y ago
      It caches them. Uses a ton of space though, so be careful.
      - alecthomas 9y ago
        Yep, 11GB.
coffeecheque 9y ago
Pity there isn't a single one from the southern hemisphere. That said, they are gorgeous. I'd just like to see something from the other side of the globe.
- nobodyshere 9y ago
  There should be some new 4k ones. They demo'ed them at the recent Apple event.
  - exikyut 9y ago
    Hmm. Open question to anyone with the latest tvOS firmware sitting around: what happens if you grep it for `entries.json`? Do you get a different URL? Obviously what I'm getting at is ways to try and find (or keep an eye out for) the latest URLs.
    - shadowfacts 9y ago
      This (https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json) appears to be the new URL for all the screensavers. The new entries file includes both normal and HDR versions of each of the screensavers, though on non-HDR displays, the SDR versions look a lot better than the (converted) HDR ones [1]. Unfortunately, all the new screensavers are encoded using HEVC [2] so they can't easily be played on OS versions without native support. [1]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment-329681377 https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment... [2]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment-333063235 https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...
      - exikyut 9y ago
        Wow, that was awesome reading how the new URL was obtained! Thanks very much.
blackflame7000 9y ago
This slide show became available on Kodi about 6 months back and makes for an awesome screensaver
Roritharr 9y ago
Anyone here who can point towards using them as Windows Screensavers?
- DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
  Chrome lets me download the video files - so it's just a matter of saving them to your local disk/NAS and using a video-as-screensaver program that supports MP4 files (so any DirectShow-based player on Windows 8 or later will do).
- Arie 9y ago
  Windows screensaver: https://github.com/cDima/Aerial https://github.com/cDima/Aerial Mac screensaver: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
wiradikusuma 9y ago
Anyone know how to make this work for Kodi, especially as audio visualization? (I don't mind downloading the videos first)
- Nanite 9y ago
  http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial, actually installed it earlier today, had to reboot after, to get the downloads working
legulere 9y ago
Because Screensavers don’t save screens anymore maybe we should call them energy wasters instead.
- girvo 9y ago
  With the usage of OLED that’s not quite true, burn-in can happen again which is an odd thing. Easier to fix than it was though, apparently.
  - legulere 9y ago
    OLEDs could be turned off almost instantly for standby though.
  - dawnerd 9y ago
    It’s more image retention. I’ve used my lg oled to show quite a bit of static images over the last year and haven’t had anything permanent. There’s even a tool built in to help clear it up.
FabHK 9y ago
John Gruber noted [1] that you can see a swimming pool with 2 sharks in it in one of the 4K Dubai day flyovers, though I haven't found them yet... [1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/thoughts_on_apple_tv_4k https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/thoughts_on_apple_tv_4k Edit: Could be bottom right of Dubai, day, 1?
- elFarto 9y ago
  Dubai, day 4, at the 2:30 mark, left hand side. I'm pretty sure they're just painted on the bottom of the pool, not actual sharks.
tempodox 9y ago
These are nice, to be sure, but in the spirit of artificial pixel scrambling, I can't help offering an antithesis: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5849/plasma-tunnel-saver https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5849/plasma-tunnel-saver Still my favourite.
- Fnoord 9y ago
  You might like Electric Sheep [1] as well then. My fav is the Word of the Day. It shows a nice blue background which doesn't hurt the eyes, with a word of the day. Though I don't use a screensaver on my MBP anymore; it needlessly drains the battery. Instead, I made a small Python program which selects a random word and shows the meaning for that word, using dict. Now that I think of it I could've used the current date as seed plus some calculations to come up with a stable word throughout the day which changes daily. I also like the Chromecast one with photos from the past, tho a bit confronting Google has all that data. [1] https://gold.electricsheep.org/ https://gold.electricsheep.org/

66 points by rafaelc 9y ago

sneak 9y ago

see also: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial

dmezzogori 9y ago

brew cask install aerial

kintamanimatt 9y ago
For those that are wondering: this installs these screensavers on MacOS. https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial
- rsync 9y ago
  Does it download the videos themselves onto your local mac or does it stream them like the AppleTV does ?
  - kintamanimatt 9y ago
    I've tried it out and it appears to stream them, however, there's an option to cache the videos locally.
  - kobeya 9y ago
    It caches them. Uses a ton of space though, so be careful.
    - alecthomas 9y ago
      Yep, 11GB.

coffeecheque 9y ago

Pity there isn't a single one from the southern hemisphere. That said, they are gorgeous. I'd just like to see something from the other side of the globe.

nobodyshere 9y ago
There should be some new 4k ones. They demo'ed them at the recent Apple event.
- exikyut 9y ago
  Hmm. Open question to anyone with the latest tvOS firmware sitting around: what happens if you grep it for `entries.json`? Do you get a different URL? Obviously what I'm getting at is ways to try and find (or keep an eye out for) the latest URLs.
  - shadowfacts 9y ago
    This (https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json https://sylvan.apple.com/Aerials/2x/entries.json) appears to be the new URL for all the screensavers. The new entries file includes both normal and HDR versions of each of the screensavers, though on non-HDR displays, the SDR versions look a lot better than the (converted) HDR ones [1]. Unfortunately, all the new screensavers are encoded using HEVC [2] so they can't easily be played on OS versions without native support. [1]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment-329681377 https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment... [2]: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment-333063235 https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/378#issuecomment...
    - exikyut 9y ago
      Wow, that was awesome reading how the new URL was obtained! Thanks very much.

blackflame7000 9y ago

This slide show became available on Kodi about 6 months back and makes for an awesome screensaver

Roritharr 9y ago

Anyone here who can point towards using them as Windows Screensavers?

DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
Chrome lets me download the video files - so it's just a matter of saving them to your local disk/NAS and using a video-as-screensaver program that supports MP4 files (so any DirectShow-based player on Windows 8 or later will do).
Arie 9y ago
Windows screensaver: https://github.com/cDima/Aerial https://github.com/cDima/Aerial Mac screensaver: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial

wiradikusuma 9y ago

Anyone know how to make this work for Kodi, especially as audio visualization? (I don't mind downloading the videos first)

Nanite 9y ago
http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Aerial, actually installed it earlier today, had to reboot after, to get the downloads working

legulere 9y ago

Because Screensavers don’t save screens anymore maybe we should call them energy wasters instead.

girvo 9y ago
With the usage of OLED that’s not quite true, burn-in can happen again which is an odd thing. Easier to fix than it was though, apparently.
- legulere 9y ago
  OLEDs could be turned off almost instantly for standby though.
- dawnerd 9y ago
  It’s more image retention. I’ve used my lg oled to show quite a bit of static images over the last year and haven’t had anything permanent. There’s even a tool built in to help clear it up.

FabHK 9y ago

John Gruber noted [1] that you can see a swimming pool with 2 sharks in it in one of the 4K Dubai day flyovers, though I haven't found them yet... [1] https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/thoughts_on_apple_tv_4k https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/thoughts_on_apple_tv_4k Edit: Could be bottom right of Dubai, day, 1?

elFarto 9y ago
Dubai, day 4, at the 2:30 mark, left hand side. I'm pretty sure they're just painted on the bottom of the pool, not actual sharks.

tempodox 9y ago

These are nice, to be sure, but in the spirit of artificial pixel scrambling, I can't help offering an antithesis: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5849/plasma-tunnel-saver https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/5849/plasma-tunnel-saver Still my favourite.

Fnoord 9y ago
You might like Electric Sheep [1] as well then. My fav is the Word of the Day. It shows a nice blue background which doesn't hurt the eyes, with a word of the day. Though I don't use a screensaver on my MBP anymore; it needlessly drains the battery. Instead, I made a small Python program which selects a random word and shows the meaning for that word, using dict. Now that I think of it I could've used the current date as seed plus some calculations to come up with a stable word throughout the day which changes daily. I also like the Chromecast one with photos from the past, tho a bit confronting Google has all that data. [1] https://gold.electricsheep.org/ https://gold.electricsheep.org/