A cool piece of software just received a fairly hefty update.
Developer John Coates has posted an extensive series of bug fixes and new features for his Aerial screensaver, which Coates is programming for both the macOS and tvOS.
The new version includes the following new features, among others:
– Extra descriptions are now shown when available. Default to english with the option to localize (per my issue, there might be some displaying bugs in some non latin languages, but hard to get feedback from it, it will come soon enough when released I guess).
– Added fade in/out on the videos themselves
– Added preliminary detection for hardware acceleration support, and a better description based on latest findings (HEVC videos are encoded at Main10 profile which is not fully hardware accelerated pre 2017 Macs where the Intel iGPU is used)
– Don’t redownload the tvOS 12 .tar file if already present in cache directory per this discussion
Coates’ efforts can be tracked, commented on, and downloaded for testing on your end via his GitHub page.
If you’ve tried Aerial and have any feedback to offer, please let us know what you make of it in the comments.
Via GitHub