[bizzybody]

I'm looking for software to make a 2D screen saver for Windows.

Things it must be able to do.

1. Display a series of images.
2. Play a WAV file at the same time each image is displayed.
3. Display each image for the length of time the WAV files play. (Ie, not a fixed display interval.)

Things that would be nice if it can do.

1. Display the images in random order, while playing the WAV files in the same order as the images.
2. Display a short and fast series of images, with a WAV file, before displaying each image/WAV file pair.

I already have the images, in BMP format, and WAV files. I've given each pair the same name, saver00.bmp saver00.wav, in numerical order. A few numbers are missing in the series, intended to give the impression of randomness- to get the viewer to wait for the missing numbers to appear.

The effect is intended to be of a backlit sign showing random stuff with audio appropriate to each display. I want to have the fast image series between each display to have it look like the sign is turning off and on with a flicker and fluorescent lights turning on. It's going to be an "attract mode" thing for a PC that will only be used to play one game.

[Tripredacus]

It can be done with Swish, and presumably Flash as well, since Swish is basically cheap-o Flash.

[bizzybody]

I found a screen saver called AVI Screen Saver. It's a few years old but works with 95 through XP, haven't tried it on Vista yet. It can play AVI's MPG and other video and audio formats in random order or the user specified order. It can bounce them around the screen, resize them and several other tricks.

Best of all it's FREEWARE.

I took my images and made short video clips, each with the same start sequence. All I have to do is put them all in a folder, drag them into the screen saver playlist, check the Random box and I'm all set. With this I've also done some animations by creating the frames in Photoshop then bringing them into Premiere, from which I made all the AVI's 10 frames per second. I makes the non-motion videos small file sizes and it's fast enough speed for simple animations.

[Tripredacus]

Doesn't Vista come with the Windows pictures slideshow screensaver? Wouldn't that be the same thing basically?