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post #1 of 5
12/1/11 at 2:19pm
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So I might be getting this for Christmas and am planning on using it as a base for an HTPC. One of the things I would love to do, is make my own custom animation. You know how you go to the movies and the theater plays a nice little vid with the theaters name in it and tells you to keep your yap shut and to turn off your phone? Well I would like to make something like that and have it play before every movie. Im certain this must be a dead horse that has been beat more than once. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
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post #2 of 5
12/11/11 at 11:04pm
Microsoft works very, very hard to prevent people from stopping the Microsoft advertising that occurs on bootup. Nonetheless, here is the company that does a good job at it:
http://www.stardock.com/products/bootskin/

I use them for their other product, WindowBlinds:
http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
I decided that the boot screen changing was too much of a risk.

But that said, don't you usually turn on your computer before the guests arrive? Waiting around for five minutes for Windows to do all its BS checking of things is a pain. So maybe you should not attempt to replace the boot screen. Maybe you should just make some kind of short movie that you could play before you play the movie.
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post #3 of 5
12/12/11 at 8:39am
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Maybe I didn't do a good job of describing what I want to do. So to answer your question, yes the server will be up and running before guests arrive and before we play a movie. Now Im not asking about changing the windows boot screen. What I am wanting to do is to create an animation/video of sorts that will play before each movie when I start it. You know when you go to a movie theater and it runs an animation/video and while doing so it's saying something like "Welcome to the AMC Theater of Any CIty USA. Please turn off all electronic devices and please be silent. We hope you enjoy your movie and experience here at AMC Theater." Finally after all that the movie starts. That's what I am looking to do. I want to make something (myself if possible) that might have a "Crazy8" logo or something and then politely telling people to shut up just before the movie starts. Does that clear it up on what Im looking for?
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post #4 of 5
12/12/11 at 9:17am

Oh.. that's EASY..

 

Media Browser has options for "Intros"  (www.mediabrowser.tv)


You can tell it for example "Anything STUDIO=DISNEY play DISNEY TRAILER.MKV" 

Or

"Anything DTS-HD Play DTSIntro.MKV"

 

before it shows your film.  It's slick stuff.

 

www.mediabrowser.tv

 

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post #5 of 5
12/12/11 at 9:33am
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Wow thank a alot. Media Browser was one of I think two programs I was thinking of using on the server. The other program was "My Movies". But this feature might be the deal breaker for me. Thanks for the info.
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