DVDBounce

Now you can finally have that retro DVD screensaver on your PC.

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Installation

Option One: Download a precompiled release

You can find all the releases here

Note, this only applies to you if:

• Your architecture is x64
• You use Windows or Linux

Note: Windows users may need the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Option Two: Compile

DVDBounce is made in C++ with SFML and CXXOPTS using the package manager Conan and build tool CMake, for ease of compilation I recommend acquiring all of these tools.

1. Acquire a C++ compiler (Windows users: I recommend MSVC, Look for "build tools"), Conan, and CMake (Windows users: This comes with the MSVC build tools)
   1. Configure the bincrafters repository with Conan: conan remote add bincrafters https://api.bintray.com/conan/bincrafters/public-conan
   2. Configure the Darcamo repository (used for CXXOPTS) conan remote add darcamo https://api.bintray.com/conan/darcamo/cppsim
   3. If you don't want to use Conan you'll need to acquire all of the dependencies yourself.
2. Clone the repo
3. Install dependencies
   1. Create a Conan folder in the repo
      1. If you've elected to not use Conan you will have to do this step manually
   2. cd conan && conan install .. --build missing
      • Windows users: If you get settings errors make the appropriate changes in C:\Users\[YOUR_USER]\.conan\profiles\default, you may need to specify what compiler you're using and what version. If you're using 2019 MSVC the version is 16
        • For other issues please refer to the Conan docs
4. compile
   1. Create a build folder
   2. You can run c.sh if you're on a unix system otherwise:
      1. cd build && cmake .. && cmake --build . && bin/dvdbounce
      2. Note: It's important that the resources folder is in the same directory as the executable, i.e. the bin folder
      3. Windows users: You may need to run cmake --build . --config Release if you get issues like LNK2038 mismatch detected for _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL: value 2 doesn't match value 0

Usage

When you start the program the logo should just start moving around on your screen (Note: If you can't see the logo, ensure that the resources folder with the appropriately named logos is in the same directory as the executable).

• Toggle Fullscreen: F
• Exit: Esc
• Logo speed:
  • Up Increases speed
  • Down Decreases speed
• Logo size:
  • Right Increases size
  • Left Decreases size

The program counts how many times the logo hits the corner for you, it prints this to the console.

Config File

DVDBouncer places a config file named config.conf in the programs directory. You can use this file to modify the default behaviour of the program. The automatically generated file contains all the possible parameters with a description of what each one does, currently that looks like this:

# This is the % width of the window
# That the logo should take up
LOGO_WIDTH_PERCENTAGE: 0.3
LOGO_WIDTH_PERCENTAGE_UPPER_BOUND: 0.8
# Multiplicate of the direction vector
LOGO_WIDTH_PERCENTAGE_LOWER_BOUND: 0.1
# Number of miliseconds between each movement
MILISECOND_TICK: 5
SPEED: 3
# Title of the window
TITLE: DVD Bouncer Super Deluxe
# The default window size as a fraction of the screen size
# EX: 4 -> 1/4 the width of the screen
WINDOW_DEFAULT_FRACTION: 4

Note: If your config file is missing any of these parameters the program will use the default and update your file with the missing options.

Command Line Parameters

--screensaver: Enables screensaver mode - the program starts fullscreen and exits on mouse/keyboard activity
--fullscreen: Starts the program in fullscreen
-c, --config [path]: Use a different config file

-t, --title [string]: Set the window's title

--tick [int]: Set the number of miliseconds between logo movements (default 5)
-s, --speed [int]: Set the speed of the logo (default 3)

--window-fraction [int]: Set the size of the window as a fraction of the screen size (4 -> 1/4th)

--logo-width [float]: Specify the logo's width on startup (0.1 = 10%)

--logo-width-max [float]: Specify the logo's max width in %
--logo-width-min [float]: Specify the logo's min width in %