Windows DreamScene

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:50 am

I got DreamScene for Ultimate, about a week ago.

I must say, it's really nice... though I'm struggling to find seamless looping, HD videos to use as my wallpaper.

Anyone else has it, and comments? Or know anywhere to get good HD video files?

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:35 pm

Interesting concept...Apple has a version of this in OS X where you can rotate images in a folder, but this is definitely taking it to the next level.

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:38 pm

What does this do?

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:50 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamscene
Not really sure I would want a animated desktop, would be rather pointless.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:54 pm

well so is flip3d and aero and transition effects found in both windows and macs...They look nice and thats the point of it...

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:36 pm

Yea, but are you going to sit there looking at your desktop for 4 hours, or are you going to actually use the computer?

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:52 pm

I tried DreamScene a few days ago and I didn't like it. It's a neat concept, but while in use the ram usage for explorer shoots up from it's usual 10 MB up to 100 MB.

DWells55 · Post by **DWells55** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:01 pm

Also, I wouldn't want to tax my video card with HD video playback that often.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:09 pm

gtavcmaster100 wrote:I tried DreamScene a few days ago and I didn't like it. It's a neat concept, but while in use the ram usage for explorer shoots up from it's usual 10 MB up to 100 MB.

DWells55 wrote:Also, I wouldn't want to tax my video card with HD video playback that often.

Agreed. It's one of those things that's a fun thing to show off to your friends if you've got a nice computer...but as for usability...no.

However, Flip3D and Expose are VERY good productivity enhancements...it took me a while to get used to Win XP without hitting F10 every five seconds.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:05 pm

You can go get HD videos from Gametrailers, but I don't think they're quite big enough for desktop resolutions...but the cropping might make them look fine.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:17 pm

I honestly wouldn't want to have a proper HD movie or trailer as my BG...But it would be very nice to have a simple thing like a flowing river, or of the waves coming in from the beach, and only on a small loop so it doesnt take up much RAM...
But I don't have Vista ultimate, so that rules me out of doing that anyway

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:24 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:I honestly wouldn't want to have a proper HD movie or trailer as my BG...But it would be very nice to have a simple thing like a flowing river, or of the waves coming in from the beach, and only on a small loop so it doesnt take up much RAM...
But I don't have Vista ultimate, so that rules me out of doing that anyway

In one of the tech demos of DreamScene they had a waterfall which was actually very cool as a background.

[cc]z@nd! · Post by **[cc]z@nd!** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:10 pm

sounds cool, but not really practical.

plus, i'll bet it's just another WMF-style exploit waiting to happen.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:44 pm

This seems like the kind of thing that Windows would put either integrated into the OS; or another tool like a new version of WMM, etc.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:51 pm

shadowkhas wrote:
gtavcmaster100 wrote:I tried DreamScene a few days ago and I didn't like it. It's a neat concept, but while in use the ram usage for explorer shoots up from it's usual 10 MB up to 100 MB.

DWells55 wrote:Also, I wouldn't want to tax my video card with HD video playback that often.
Agreed. It's one of those things that's a fun thing to show off to your friends if you've got a nice computer...but as for usability...no.

However, Flip3D and Expose are VERY good productivity enhancements...it took me a while to get used to Win XP without hitting F10 every five seconds.

I had to switch my expose F keys to something else since Final Cut stole those

Therefore, I haven't used expose as much. God damn I don't know why I don't use it more. *changes key to something usable*

a mammoth · Post by **a mammoth** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:08 pm

Concept is cool, but I think its just one of those things that just needs more time to let the power of computers catch up with it. Yea its cool to have a river as your background, but it isn't practical at all. It would be cool through to have a gallery online where your background changes every say 2 minutes downloading a band new background each time, that would be cool.

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:10 pm

Not practical, but concepts is what drives technology forward. Even if something doesn't have a point, someone might get ideas of more useful stuff from this.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:18 pm

a mammoth wrote:It would be cool through to have a gallery online where your background changes every say 2 minutes downloading a band new background each time, that would be cool.

That's kinda what Mac OS X does. You can use a folder, and have it rotate image any time increment (I actually can't remember the time increments you can choose, but they're pretty wide ranging).

Also, if you feel up to programming, then you could write a script that would go and download images from that gallery into your folder in OS X by using Automator. That would be awesome.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:17 am

Why does anything with 'Windows' in the title have to have someone mention OS X... please, let's not.

I want the Blissful Sunset Dream from StarDock... but it's premium. =/

It's really nice sunset with over 10million blades of grass swayingback and forth gently... it's nice. Currently I have an underwater view of the ocean surface, small video and the loop is very seamless. It's nice. =)

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:00 pm

you could just set an animated GIF as your background....