Well, you could write an X screensaver, but I don't think you need to.
Most Linux distros come with a multiple of screensavers and I'm pretty
sure that several offer background color cycling. If not, one should be
simple to write, and would not require Myth programming at all. Just
let the saver kick in on an idle timer like usual.
However you'd probably want to at least script something to disable it
when playing videos/live TV since you wouldn't want it kicking in while
watching something.
Jason H wrote:
so what you're saying I can just write an X
application and plug that into myth some how?
How does one set a screensaver app that is activated
from an idle myth menu?
--- David Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what constitutes burn-in is a pixel left in an
unchanged state for
an extended period. It doesn't have to be in a
random state, or a state
different than an adjacent pixel, like in static --
it just needs to
change. So if you, say, changed the background
color at regular
intervals that would change every pixel on the
screen. To make it less
jarring you could use muted colors and fade/gradient
them in. To me
that would be the most effective and easiest to
achieve result -- every
pixel would change at the same time for the same
length of time and
therefore be more uniform in their "wear" pattern.
Seeing random
channel changing would be more disruptive (to me)
than seeing blank
color transitions.
Just a thought...
Jason H wrote:
Because screensavers exhibit patterns. They are
loops.
It varies per screensaver, but there are ones that
are
never touch the corners(window's mystify, bouble -
anything that bounces on the edges are
statistically
more likely to wear the middle and seldom venture
into
the corners)
The thing we are going to go for is no pattern.
Static
is best, but hard to come by. Real TV samples
switched
regularly is the next best. The number of channels
(70+) provides a nice long rotation cycle and
sufficiently varied data.
--- Dan Wilga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 9:30 PM -0700 6/19/05, Andy Alsup wrote:
If your plasma has a RF tuner, just tune it to a
non-existant channel
with snow for burn-in. As long as the image is
changing it doesn't
really matter where it comes from.
Or, since you're probably running X anyway, why
not
just turn the
screensaver on with something non-blank? Then all
you have to do is
remember to leave the TV on for the next 41 days.
--
Dan Wilga
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Administrator
http://www.mtholyoke.edu
Mount Holyoke College
Tel: 413-538-3027
South Hadley, MA 01075 "Who left the
cake out in the rain?"
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