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Jabberwock:
Hello,

I wanted to please my kid and show the streaming video of the panda cub from the Atlanta Zoo, found here:
http://afczoo-pandacam.wm.llnwd.net/afczoo_pandacam?e=1223956800&h=1f6474fdff0640d7b732de6049586894

as a screensaver... However, much to my surprise, there is no working software that could do that?

I've found one program, Active Player Screensaver, but it refuses to play that video link (complaining about a decompressor). What's funny, it does not play even the sample feed it has configured...

Microsoft has a plugin for Windows Media Player, but this one only plays files, not Internet streaming video (beats me why, as it uses the same WMP functionality).

I know I can fake it by starting WMP after scheduled idle time, but I hoped for a more elegant solution...

Curt:
- a gentle voice told me, the link is not valid.

Jabberwock:
Yeah, got that, too.

You can get there from:
http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_panda_cam.php4

It's Windows Movie 9, I think.

Curt:
I was lucky with the timing, the thing was actually MOVING when I watched!  :up:

 :P

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To my (lack of) understanding you only have a choice to save&use the playlist - but I haven't tried to do so with this particular stream. In the end the visible picture may be too small to use as a screensaver? Rather use it as a widget 'on the side' if you have a widescreen monitor.

Edit:
url to test: http://afczoo-pandacam.wm.llnwd.net/afczoo_pandacam?e=1224302400&h=83fc3b7a262e191300be4557d3f2d5fb

Jabberwock:
I have no problem actually running it with Media Player (even in fullscreen, with the proper command line option). I am using this with one of the screensaver "fakers", which launch Media Player after specific idle time. However, this has all the disadvantages of not running proper screesaver, i.e. I have to close the window manually when I get back to work, some events from other applications get on top, etc.

Therefore, I hoped there might be an actual screensaver that would display streaming video. That is, there is one I mentioned at the top, but it is not working...

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