Note that if anyone wants to commit heresy and use these screensavers on their Android TV (or any other Android) device, they can use Aerial Dream (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingbuff...) and set it as default under Settings -> Daydream :)
I use this on my Shield TV and it's great. I also have an ATV4 as android AirPlay doesn't work nearly as well. Makes it confusing sometimes to tell which input the TV is on haha.
I think it's the best equivalent to an Apple TV in the Android ecosystem. Great performance and 4k, but way less apps (notably no Amazon Prime TV app).
If you're into cord cutting they do have an app for Sling streaming cable service.
Chromecasting to it is straightforward, and on par with Airplay. That was the one thing holding me to iOS for a long time.
I agree with the best STB, at least all the ones I've used recently.
There's an unofficall Amazon Video app that I've been using for quite awhile with little problems, the ShieldTV does use the Google Play Store and I've used other stores like Aptoide and AptoideTV.
Depends on what do you mean by that. nVidia ShieldTV is currently probably the best STB on the marked, it can hardware decode anything you throw at it (including VP9 and 10-bit H265), is less buggy than the reference Nexus Player and has access to most big network apps.
Large exception is Amazon's stuff, because Amazon deliberately refuses to support Android TV because they're pushing their own crap.
These videos look amazing on just about any screen. I've got a 15" MBP Retina connected to a 34" Dell Ultrawide and I've caught people just _staring_ at the big screen with many of these videos.
Just skimmed through the code. It's nicely done (way neater code than I'd ever write). Seems to pull down each video to stream directly, unless cached locally (toggable), there's also some/day night code in there, and it supports multi monitors.
I believe they are real footage. I've read that they were shot from helicopters and drones using a stabilized RED Dragon @120fps, played back at 24fps.
OT but there is a very cool video from Davin Graham on how such a drone looks like while he was filming at Milford Sound, New Zealand https://youtu.be/l59Svj2E4lk?t=1m35s.
I've been running these as a Kodi screensaver for a few months now, but it pains me that they aren't 4k! Not a big deal for 1080p movies sitting back 12 feet, but this kind of stuff is like artwork hanging on my wall; I walk up to it, so every pixel counts. I hope that they're shot in 4 or 8k and Apple is sitting on hi-res versions until the Apple TV can support them.
Is there anyway to get this to play on the Windows 10 logon screen, instead of a picture background? I found the Windows version for the screensaver on the link below, but no way to set it as the logon background.
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If you're into cord cutting they do have an app for Sling streaming cable service.
Chromecasting to it is straightforward, and on par with Airplay. That was the one thing holding me to iOS for a long time.
Doesn't it use the Google Play Store?
There's an unofficall Amazon Video app that I've been using for quite awhile with little problems, the ShieldTV does use the Google Play Store and I've used other stores like Aptoide and AptoideTV.
Large exception is Amazon's stuff, because Amazon deliberately refuses to support Android TV because they're pushing their own crap.
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If not, then I will.
Totally usable and saves me a job. Cheers!
Edit: here is the final footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMGSrS_2R6I
curl http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/scripts/apple-tv-screensavers.json | jq .[].assets[].url | xargs wget
https://github.com/cDima/Aerial/