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v2.0.2
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v2.0.1
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v2.0.0
What's Changed
- Complete UI Redesign by @irampton in #234
- Modern look and feel
- Better settings text, layout, and search
- Video search
- Better screensaver preview
- Preview fullscreen
- Preview each monitor in a window
- Updated text overlay settings
- Easier to use
- Customizable drop shadow
- Opacity slider
- Set line spacing
- Easier to add/edit settings
- Added localized video information in 33 languaes by @irampton in #233
- Better update checking by @irampton in #232
- Individual video speed by @irampton in #235
- Updated the welcome and update text by @irampton in #236
- Optimized video playback by @irampton in #237
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v1.4.3
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v1.4.2
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v1.4.1
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v1.4.0
What's Changed
- Added an Auto-updater, Aerial will automatically download new versions by @irampton
- Updated points of interest by @irampton
- If transitions are used, the first video fades in over the desktop by @irampton
- Prevents the start menu from appearing over Aerial (#106) by @irampton
- Improved idle detection for video games by @irampton
- Desktop is always hidden before locking (#169) by @irampton
- Added option to delay between screen blanking and sleeping (#174) by @JSuttHoops
- Arial only alerts on new version (#219) by @JSuttHoops
- All video audio is now muted (#159) by @irampton
- Fixed error on quit (#223) by @irampton
- Fixed video preview in settings (#203) by @irampton
- Improved multi-monitor video selection by @irampton
- Automatic release publishing by @irampton
- Other bugs fixes and dependencies updates
Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0
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v1.3.0
It's been a while, but Aerial v1.3.0 is out. This is the first release where I (@irampton ) will be taking over for @OrangeJedi. I hope to keep this project actively maintained, so please submit any issue you have with this release. There are a few other features I hope to work on soon, so stay tuned for more updates.
New Feature Summary
- The new videos are added (#179)
- This induces Monument Valley, Redwoods, Sonoma, Superbloom, Sequoia, India, and Tahoe
- It also includes support for the 4K240fps format (all videos)
- Huge upgrade to the video player (too many issues to count)
- Should fix most stuttering, not playing, and lag issues
- Support to down convert to 1080p30 for compatibility
- The playback slider now lets you go down to 1/10th speed so you can watch those 240fps video for hours and hours and hours
- Aerial won't start when playing media (#202, #180, #166, #161)
- All videos have day, night, and twilight tags (#102)
- Now built for ARM64 (#209)
- Fixed random JS errors (#143 & others)
- Data and time localized (#176)
- Better font selection ( #211, #199 shoutout to @AyyyV)
- Option to disable mouse waking ( #181, #182, shoutout to @PL7963)
- Cycle videos back the the arrow keys (#196 , shoutout to @JSuttHoops)
- Better uninstall (#152)
- Upgraded Electron version and other app dependencies
- Many other bugs (#148, #155, #155, #171, #208, and more)
See the version history for more detailed information
How to Install
Download Aerial Setup 1.3.0.exe and run it. A configuration window will open where you can adjust any settings. Make sure you disable any other screensavers on your PC and set you system screen & sleep setting accordingly. Works on both x86/x64 and ARM64.
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v1.2.1
This new release includes the following:
- H.265 Video Support (#17)
- Aerial now supports Apple's H.265 videos in both 1080p (for lower file sizes) and 4K
- There are now two ways to have Aerial avoid launching when playing other videos: (#114)
- Use
aerial.scrto install using the system screensaver API (There is a possibility you will encounter high CPU usage and low performance and some app features, like launching with a global shortcut won't work.) - Or configure Aerial to run as an administrator
- Use
- Minor bug fixes (#149, #138)
See the version history for more information
How to Install
Self Launching App
Download Aerial Setup 1.2.1.exe (or download the .zip and extract it) and run it. Aerial takes care of the rest. A configuration window will open where you can adjust the settings.
Windows Screensaver
Download aerial.scr, copy it to a folder where you won't delete it, right click, and click on install. Use the dialogue to configure settings.
Things to note
- Disable any other screensavers before installing
- Set your computer sleep settings to longer than the screensaver start time
- If you want your computer to download and cache the videos, you must set up the video cache manually
v1.2.0
This update brings lots of new feature to Aerial including: multi-line text, video transitions, random text location, and a new icon. Enjoy!
New Feature Summary
- Multi-line text (#26)
- Text can now be displayed on up to 4 lines
- Customize each line's type and font
- Multi-monitor text (#112)
- Choose which monitor a line can be displayed on
- Random/moving text locations (#124)
- Video Transitions
- Dissolve, fade, wipe, circle, and more!
- Customize the speed
- Randomize the type and direction of the transition
- Improvements to starting and closing Aerial
- A keyboard shortcut to start the screensaver (#71)
- Aerial will not run when the computer is sleeping or locked
- Aerial will automatically close itself when your computer locks or unlocks
- You can now set a Aerial not lock your computer if you wake it up immediacy after it starts
- You can now configure Aerial to not run on battery power
- New Icon (congratulations to @TheFreshPrins for wining our vote!)
- New display category: images
- Stretch or crop option for special screen sizes (#119)
- Font selector now shows all the fonts when empty (#45)
- Fixed two issues where a popup was showing on startup for some users (#131 and #132)
- Increased video loading performance
- You can now customize the video skip key
- Added a button to access the config files
- Smoothed out the config menu
- Updated dependencies
See the version history for more detailed information
How to Install
Download Aerial Setup 1.2.0.exe and run it. A configuration window will open where you can adjust any settings. Make sure you disable any other screensavers on your PC and set you system screen & sleep setting accordingly.
