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To make video movie screen saver loop seamlessly , you need

1 ) . Your screen saver project should be a pure video movie project. That is , you can just add only one video movie in screen saver project , no other type of media files (flash or images files) .

2 ) . Change the default interval to 0 second in Media -> Options

3 ) . (This step is optional.) Change the background color to a solid color similar to the movie background





4 ) . (This step is optional.) If you don't want a background to display, select full screen mode to display the movie is also help.

Power Screensaver builder supports multi-monitor since 3.6 version.

To specify which monitor to be used to display screen saver :

Please mouse right click on screen saver file (*.src) created by PSSB and select "Configure" item on the pop up menu , (you can also invoke this settings window by right clicking on desktop->Properties->Screensaver ) and then turn to the "Settings" tab . See following image:

Items in drop down list are enumerated from your windows system.

The first item in select list is entire virtual screen , if you select this item , screen saver will display on all monitors .

The second item that begins with "1 : " is the primary screen , the left - top coordinate is (0 , 0) .

The third item is secondary monitor , begins with "2 : " , and so on.

A big feature in this Screen saver maker software is that you can specify custom icons in your screensaver installation file (setup) . By using Advanced output options , you can specify the display icons (Icon on desktop or Start menu after installation) and icon in Add/Remove Programs section of Control Panel. Please see image below.




Please node : When you create your screensaver files , custom icon in Power Screensaver Builder dose not mean you can change the icon of screensaver file (.src) , it only works on Screensaver installation files (setup) .

You can add unlimited amount of pics in theory. But when you add lots of pics (such as more then 5000) to a PSSB project and build with these pics, you will get an output file that has very big size , it runs very slow because it takes lots of RAM. In this case , you can turn to the "output" tab of PSSB ,select the "Local media file" and "Look for media files in runtime directory" build options to create your output file. This type of output file has small size and will look for all your media file in it's runtime directory. Of course , you can also create several output which builder with media files and each of these output file contains not more a certain amount of pics.

Yes , you will. If you build with media files, you just burn the output file (.scr or .exe) onto your CD. If you build without media files , you have to select the "Local media files" AND "Look for media files in runtime directory." build options in output tab of PSSB , please keep the output file and media files in the same directory when your burn them onto a CD.

     To create a shareware screensaver that requires license key , for sale or for any use , first of all you should have a professional edition of Power Screensaver Builder.
     Following steps show how to create a shareware screensaver:
1 : Select "Registration" item in "Settings" tab , and fill some information required in "reg seed" , "trial period" and buy link .ect.



     The registration seed is a unique string that is used to distinguish with other screen saver you create , you can enter any string in the field , different registration seed for different shareware screen saver. it will be used as a parameter to create license keys to unlock your screen saver .

2 : To easy distribute your screensaver , please use a screensaver installation file (setup) in "Output" tab .

3 : Shareware screen saver will pop up window to let end user visit the buy page specified in the first step when trial period is expired or end use open the screen saver configuration dialog , such as following:

      Because Power Screensaver Builder use the Windows Media Control Interface driver to play video movies in screensavers , what codecs are supported by PSSB is depend on What codecs have been installed to your Windows system . That is to say , if you had installed a MPEG-4 codec on your system , you can add a MPEG-4 video movie to your screensaver. Use the Windows Media Control Interface driver to play video movies can reduce the size of output file and can use all codecs on your system.
      To check what codecs have been installed on your system , you can click "Start" ---->"Setting"----->"Control panel" -----> "Audio & Multimedia"---->"Device", select the "Video codecs" and click the property button. (These steps may have some difference in different Windows operating system.)

To reduce the size of screensaver , just use the small size media in your project , In two ways:
1.Convert your bitmap Image to a Jpeg image . You can use the build in tool convert your bmp files to jpeg files before you add them to your project.
2.Use MIDI sound files in your screensaver projects.

  To convert a bmp file to jpe image , please use built in image convert tool come with Power Screensaver Builder. It lets you do that easily. Please click "Tools" menu and select "Image convertor" item to bring up the tool, then add your image files and set the output path ,then click the "bmp to jpeg" button or "jpeg to bmp" button ,that is all. Icon files also can be converted to bmp files use this tool.

The following instruction shows the detail:

  1. Add images you want to convert



  2. Set images output Path



  3. Convert JPG to BMP



  4. Then you will get this

Your computer display settings might be set to 256 colors, In order to view image that have colors more than 256, your computer display settings needs to be set to at lease 16 bits or higher.