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No video on macOS 10.15

Open LordMurillo opened this issue 5 years ago • 17 comments

After upgrading to macOS Catalina (10.15), it shows me "no videos". When I check the preferences, the list of directories is empty, and if I try to add a new directory, when I click on "+", it does nothing. SaveHollywood version is 2.5 (9)

LordMurillo avatar Oct 09 '19 10:10 LordMurillo

See my post on the other thread referring to 10.15:

Ok, I have it working in 10.15 now... the trick was (due to the sandboxing I believe) was to put the video file in the actual folder where the plist resides.... (new folder in 10.15).... which is:

/Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost

Once I placed the video in this folder, I 'dragged and dropped' it into the config for savehollywood and it works fine...

Perhaps not a solution, but at least a workaround...

@packagesdev I am guessing this it most likely a permissions issue with the new sandboxing for 3rd party screeen savers...

Adam

nextgenoperations avatar Oct 09 '19 15:10 nextgenoperations

I don't quite understand what you're saying. Do I have to copy the videos on the path /Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost?

LordMurillo avatar Oct 09 '19 17:10 LordMurillo

Yes.

nextgenoperations avatar Oct 09 '19 17:10 nextgenoperations

It doesn't work for me.

LordMurillo avatar Oct 09 '19 17:10 LordMurillo

Did you place the video In the folder ?

Once done, did you ‘drag and drop’ the video into the savehollywood video field (the + button doesn’t work)

This is what I did and others have managed to get it to work ....

I am not the developer so anything more I can’t really help...

Adam

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nextgenoperations avatar Oct 09 '19 17:10 nextgenoperations

It's working! I didn't understand you correctly Thank you very much

LordMurillo avatar Oct 10 '19 08:10 LordMurillo

Good news !!

nextgenoperations avatar Oct 10 '19 08:10 nextgenoperations

See my post on the other thread referring to 10.15:

Ok, I have it working in 10.15 now... the trick was (due to the sandboxing I believe) was to put the video file in the actual folder where the plist resides.... (new folder in 10.15).... which is:

/Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost

Once I placed the video in this folder, I 'dragged and dropped' it into the config for savehollywood and it works fine...

Perhaps not a solution, but at least a workaround...

@packagesdev I am guessing this it most likely a permissions issue with the new sandboxing for 3rd party screeen savers...

Adam

I stored my videos in:

/Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/ApplicationSupport/SaveHollywood

I had to create the folder SaveHollywood myself. I feel this may be a more appropriate location for the files than Preferences and is the same location Aerial uses.

I was then able to drag and drop the files into the SaveHollywood screensaver preferences as suggested and everything works.

Hank

hclyatt avatar Oct 11 '19 01:10 hclyatt

See my post on the other thread referring to 10.15: Ok, I have it working in 10.15 now... the trick was (due to the sandboxing I believe) was to put the video file in the actual folder where the plist resides.... (new folder in 10.15).... which is: /Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost Once I placed the video in this folder, I 'dragged and dropped' it into the config for savehollywood and it works fine... Perhaps not a solution, but at least a workaround... @packagesdev I am guessing this it most likely a permissions issue with the new sandboxing for 3rd party screeen savers... Adam

I stored my videos in:

/Users/XXXXX/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/ApplicationSupport/SaveHollywood

I had to create the folder SaveHollywood myself. I feel this may be a more appropriate location for the files than Preferences and is the same location Aerial uses.

I was then able to drag and drop the files into the SaveHollywood screensaver preferences as suggested and everything works.

Hank

Agreed that this location is probably better, after some reading on the Apple Dev site, anywhere under the screensaver.legacy container is valid as savehollywood will be able to read the file...

A.

nextgenoperations avatar Oct 14 '19 12:10 nextgenoperations

Thanks, this worked for me.

Lastofthefirst avatar Jun 28 '20 17:06 Lastofthefirst

Not support 4k video?

CodeSorryMaker avatar Sep 09 '20 06:09 CodeSorryMaker

Not working on MacOS 11.3 Beta?

AraHaan avatar Apr 06 '21 06:04 AraHaan

Note that Aerial also supports showing your own local videos, and works on Monterey: https://aerialscreensaver.github.io

153957 avatar Jan 13 '22 09:01 153957

Note that Aerial also supports showing your own local videos, and works on Monterey: https://aerialscreensaver.github.io

Not well, I get crashing and just black screens. Error loading files.

MDanihy avatar Jan 13 '22 15:01 MDanihy

I wonder if something like this can be made for Windows and Linux as well for fun 🤔.

AraHaan avatar Jan 13 '22 20:01 AraHaan

I wonder if something like this can be made for Windows and Linux as well for fun 🤔.

(From the Aerial readme) Windows – https://github.com/OrangeJedi/Aerial Linux – https://github.com/graysky2/xscreensaver-aerial/

153957 avatar Feb 23 '22 07:02 153957

I just tested moving it outside an iCloud folder and it works. It won't work Inside an iCloud synced folder by my observations.

0x5am5 avatar May 06 '22 12:05 0x5am5