Ptolemaio Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hey I edited an old Alienware screen-saver "demo" file i found called "Eyes of fire" that was on the Allpowerful.com site. It's this really awesome Alienware screen-saver where the Alienware head has flaming eyes that start up and burn. the problem was, that after 17 seconds, it would do a fake glitch out, then show the Alienware text, like a commercial. Then it would loop. Well i wanted the screen-saver without the BS commercial in it, so i ripped apart the .SCR file, and pulled out a .SWF flash file that had the video on it... edited it, looped it, and recombined it back into an .SCR. So here you are, a pretty awesome Alienware screen-saver for anyone who is interested. Here's a link to a youtube video that shows what the old screen-saver looked like: Here's the download link to my new fixed screen-saver file: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted December 10, 2011 Founder Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hey @Ptolemaio, thanks for the upload and welcome to T|I !Btw, could you fix the link to the youtube video? I think the link is broken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmskate13 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hey @Ptolemaio , thanks for the upload and welcome to T|I !Btw, could you fix the link to the youtube video? I think the link is broken Took the liberty of getting the link myself, I see what Ptolemaio was saying when he removed the Ad part. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted December 10, 2011 Founder Share Posted December 10, 2011 ok cool, gonna update the OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unreal25 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Now I'll go head and suggest something else. Going back to Win95 era I remember having some thing called "Active desktop" where you would have pretty much any media playing in the background instead of static wallpaper. But, I also remember being it quite a resource hog and it was basically just for showing off. But... today we have much more powerful computers and I am wondering whether its possible to put this animation as a windows desktop background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptolemaio Posted February 22, 2012 Author Share Posted February 22, 2012 not sure, but if you would like to you can just use a screedsaver edit program to open up the .swf file, and extract the flash video file from within the screensaver, and use that.also, since megaupload is down is rehosted the screensaver here:Alienware Fire.scr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Now I'll go head and suggest something else. Going back to Win95 era I remember having some thing called "Active desktop" where you would have pretty much any media playing in the background instead of static wallpaper. But, I also remember being it quite a resource hog and it was basically just for showing off. But... today we have much more powerful computers and I am wondering whether its possible to put this animation as a windows desktop background? Simple enough there is a tweak to get vista's dreamscapes to work and play .wmv files as a active video desktop even right click and allow pause and play... uses no audio just video... if you can get copy of the flash file guarantee you can convert the video to .wmv there are a lot ove video converters out there i can suggest one if needed. So yes it is possible and i had succesfully did it with one of the older dreamscapes alienware made... The one showing some towers with alienbackround and goes to a portal etc. I used to like the dreamscape on vista that looked like lava... Anyway yes we can do it Unreal and if OP can post the flash video too we can help set that up Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 VLC player can put any video to desktop, not sure about resource usage but its a real easy to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 VLC player can put any video to desktop, not sure about resource usage but its a real easy to do. lol i use VLC for all media... Totally slipped my mind nice suggestion SSG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sargent Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I have a bad habbit of testing out any software I come across online, I like to know what features I might like and always looking for good free software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Now I'll go head and suggest something else. Going back to Win95 era I remember having some thing called "Active desktop" where you would have pretty much any media playing in the background instead of static wallpaper. But, I also remember being it quite a resource hog and it was basically just for showing off. But... today we have much more powerful computers and I am wondering whether its possible to put this animation as a windows desktop background? looking for this dreamscapes unlock for Windows 7? just enable and go to personalize and desktop pictures and you can assign a movie Windows 7 dream Scene Activator W7DSA.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveb00bs Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 i've used the dream scene before, but sometimes it messes with your icons, still works but desktop icon colors are screwy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 (edited) Form React.zip i made mistake the above one works but dont go to personalize and desktop backround.... instead go to the wmv or mpeg file directly in Explorer and right click it select "set as desktop" here is sample to get started then we can convert the flash file in the above screensaver to make a dreamscene (wmv or mpeg file) for those curious ive pegged a 1-4% increase in cpu usage on Explorer.exe for this add on to be playing as it goes away when its paused... also i noticed and you can in my pic that instead of 2D gpu clocks using this when playing it it uses intermediate 3d clocks on gpu one only (if in dual card setup) Edited February 23, 2012 by mw86 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetFound Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Does anyone object to adding this as a link under http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/79-alienware-windows-customizations-restore-alienwares-look-feel.html ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted February 24, 2012 Founder Share Posted February 24, 2012 Does anyone object to adding this as a link under http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware/79-alienware-windows-customizations-restore-alienwares-look-feel.html ?By all means! Go ahead ;-) Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptolemaio Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 Simple enough there is a tweak to get vista's dreamscapes to work and play .wmv files as a active video desktop even right click and allow pause and play... uses no audio just video... if you can get copy of the flash file guarantee you can convert the video to .wmv there are a lot ove video converters out there i can suggest one if needed. So yes it is possible and i had succesfully did it with one of the older dreamscapes alienware made... The one showing some towers with alienbackround and goes to a portal etc. I used to like the dreamscape on vista that looked like lava... Anyway yes we can do it Unreal and if OP can post the flash video too we can help set that up Unreal. Yea, all it uses it a .SWF file that it plays. I embedded into the .SWF file a loop after the burn gets fired up. here is the edited flash video: Alien head - FIRE.swf here is the original: Video 3.swf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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