Screensaver during Radio playback?

[aparnold]

Just would like to start by thanking Tom for such an awesome program. I've gotten great use out of it!

Now, my question:

I'm using a CRT RPTV as my main display, and would like to activate a screensaver when listening to an internet radio station, or MP3. i.e. My girlfriend likes the internet radio station feature, but I'd love to trigger a screensaver (*.scr) when a station is launched so I don't wory about burn-in when I'm not home. Is this possible? If not would it be possible to add a feature where, at the very least the screen is blacked out when a station/MP3 is selected?

Thanks for any advice.

[Tom Speirs]

Just would like to start by thanking Tom for such an awesome program.  I've gotten great use out of it!

Now, my question: 

I'm using a CRT RPTV as my main display, and would like to activate a screensaver when listening to an internet radio station, or MP3.  i.e.  My girlfriend likes the internet radio station feature, but I'd love to trigger a screensaver (*.scr) when a station is launched so I don't wory about burn-in when I'm not home.    Is this possible?  If not would it be possible to add a feature where, at the very least the screen is blacked out when a station/MP3 is selected? 

Thanks for any advice.

Have you looked at the attract mode settings? This is GameEx's built in Screensaver. During idle input in GameEx you can have it launch MAME games (continuously), or/and have it play videos from a folder.

[aparnold]

Yes, I have but a few problems...

1.) If a rom hasn't been loaded before the screen saver just hangs on the ownership disclaimer.

2.) If I could set it so that it only played videos, that would be a fine solution too but I can only set a ratio, not just play videos exclusively.

3.) Since I have high thread priority enabled, certain games lock up the audio decoding at times.

4.) It would be nice to use a screen saver with audio visualizations.

Thanks for the quick response! Any ideas/solutions?