http://www.archive.org/details/electricsheep-packs-244
Download, unzip, and copy to your content/mpeg folder (on XP look in C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ElectricSheep, or on Vista C:\ProgramData\ElectricSheep, and on Mac ~/Library/Application Support/Electric Sheep, and on Linux in ~/.electricsheep).
On Vista and XP, that's in a hidden folder, you may have to go to "View" under the "Folder Options" menu and check the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" box.
why dont the sheep packs work?
how do i get them to work? before i downloaded the sheep packs and installed them into the proper folder, it was working. but now ive let the screensaver stay up for a few hours and all i got was a black screen. i erased the whole folder and its working again, but it only has a few sheep to work with, like it started over from scratch. after i download the sheep pack and extract the .avi files to my ~/.electricsheep folder, what do i have to do to get it to work? ive even tried downloading the whole sheep pack again to see if that was the problem, but it still didnt work. please help!!!
that should do it. try
that should do it. try running on the command line with the "--debug 1" option and see if the output has any clues. what is the output from these commands:
ls ~/.electricsheep/*.avi | wc -l
and
du -h ~/.electricsheep
?
output
the command that started with ls gave me an output of '76'
the command that started with du gave me an output of '213M /home/bob/.electricsheep'
these commands were run after i totally erased my ~/.electricsheep folder and then let the screensaver run for atleast an hour. it looks like it created the ~/.electricsheep folder and then populated it with 76 sheep and 3 other files when i let it run for an hour. I want to be able to put all of the other files from the sheep pack in to the folder at let it run with those too. It doesnt seem to wanna work for me, and I dont know what I am doing wrong. I ran it with the --debug 1 from command line and it ran, but didnt tell me anything that seemed like it would help. im going to try and copy the sheep packs back into the folder again and see what happens.
problem solved
i had been running the command 'gksu nautilus' from terminal to copy files to ~/.electricsheep, because i mistakenly thought that was the only way to do it since it is a hidden folder. i realized it was changing the permissions and then tried it without running the file browser as root, and now i got everything to work. see what being a linux n00b and thinking too hard gets you? I was just making my life harder than it should be. i wasted hours trying to figure this out. im glad it is finally working. thanks for trying to help, i should have been explaining everything i was doing
linux noob. im lost
i just installed electricsheep. when i go to the screensaver configure window, electricsheep shows up as one of the screensavers i can choose from. now, im kinda new to linux, after i downloaded one of the sheep packs from archive.org and i extracted it to my download folder, now im supposed to copy it to ~/.electricsheep, how exactly do i do that? i dont understand what '~' means. someone please help
first, if you are patient it
first, if you are patient it should work without the sheep pack.
second, ~ means your home directory.
Are the .avi files linked to on the homepage sheep?
Great Program
Ive got a few questions:
Im currently using an older version of ES and instead of the files being in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data"
They are found in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\electricsheep-cache\mpeg"
When I go to the ES homepage and click on the "Top Sheeps" links on the right it allows me to download .avi files.
Are these Flock Files ? If they are, do I have to rename them to the
"#####=#####=#####=#####.mpg" filenames?
thanks. the old version is
thanks. the old version is obsolete, if you want to use the new content you should download the new version. it's way better.
I'm having problems running the new version
Maybe I'll try again and see what happens
Sheep
I downloaded Sheep for Mac running 10.5.8. Selected it in the screensaver via system prefs. Only one sheep renders.
Do I need to do anything else or does it take awhile to start the rendering?
sometimes it can take a while
sometimes it can take a while to download. let it run for a few hours or overnight. make sure your power settings don't turn off the screen.
Thanks
I will let it run for awhile and see what happens. Thx
something is still not quite right...
I have windows, and I saved lots of sheep (815, to be precise) saved in my mpeg folder under content. I followed the advice of the wiki to rename them all from ".avi" files to ".mpg" files. However, they not only are still classified as "movie files", they also don't work...
Any ideas why they still don't come up?
Will
NEVER MIND it works beautifully. and i MEAN beautifully
how did you get it to
how did you get it to work...mine are still classified as movie files also.
you should not be renaming
you should not be renaming any files.
im so confused...this stuff
im so confused...this stuff is above my head...hahaha. the files are classified as mov. files in winzip. what do i do next
i don't know what you should
i don't know what you should do next. what did you do already?
you should follow the instructions at the top of this forum post.
What's the deal with the downloading?
Hi, first, thank you for the sheep that I have been successful downloading. May I ask, why I am downloading these either avi or mpeg files one at a time? The grouped downloads seems to corrupt when expanded, so I am downloading one movie at a time which takes forever. I am no expert, but really love the effects when placed in my ~/Lib/Application Suppot/ElectricSheep/contensts/mpeg folder in Leopard 5.8. Thanks for the movies again, but wish there were a single compressed download.
john r
i believe the pack files are
i believe the pack files are correct on the server; you may have a bad copy. i recommend you delete it and download from archive.org again.
.
Got it fixed ^^ Great program
First time user of electric sheep
Hopp this shit's dopp
I've been a sheep herder for years.
I am downloading pack 6 right now, I would like to participate a little more. Scott do I have to be a code guru to participate at a higher level? Also, I killed a sheep by accident, is there any way to bring it back to life? I really can't give it mouth to mouth, lol
Thanks for offering, Mark.
Thanks for offering, Mark. There's a ton of stuff to do, like updating the wiki documentation. What are your skills?
If it's still alive you can bring a sheep back by downloading it from the current flock (click on a sheep on the right and then click "flock").
Otherwise you can use the archive: http://www.archive.org/details/electricsheep-flock-244
Active Desktop?
Hi spot,
I just saw your reply and wanted to ask if there is a posibility that ES could be made into an active desktop? If so how much regedit would have to be done? I really think that the effort would be worth the prize. This idea has been in the back of my mind for a long time now and has given me the incentive to go back to school for IT-CNS. I am a Lake Co. resident and was going to ask if you would consider visiting our school sometime in the near future? I really would like to know a little more about how you make computer magic happen.
MarkS
Correction: Packs 243 vs 244
http://www.archive.org/details/electricsheep-packs-244 is misleading. It contains Flock 243!
http://www.archive.org/details/electricsheep-flock-244 is correct. This contains Flock 244.
content/mpeg
Mon, 09/14/2009 - 19:10 — Novogrudsky
same errorHi, im from argentina so my english is not the best.
I have the same problem as many people here. Id download ES, and i have 2... draws, 2 sheeps and it appear the message:server request failed, using free one
I d read this panel, and im dowloading that pack.(ive to dowload everyone in that page?) (and for what is that, are they sheeps?) but i dont find the folder to put it. i have Vista (in spanish) but i have c-program files-Electricsheep screensaver, and inside this i have several files and a folder 'Scripts' and inside this i have more files and 2 folders: clibs and loggings .where do i put what im downloading?.. and then?? when does the magic beggins?? je
thanks!!
and I have the same problem, i dont have un-hide folders to get programdata and at the ES folder i dont have content/mpeg... y have to crate it?
On Vista, "ProgramData" is a
On Vista, "ProgramData" is a hidden folder, you may have to go to "View" under the "Folder Options" menu and check the "Show Hidden Files and Folders" box.
you don't need all of them, you can start with just one.
downloaded sheep pack, now nothing works
you have to put them in the
you have to put them in the content\mpeg folder like the instructions say.
yes i tried that, those
take that back
shouldn't change the
what did you set the directory to? you shouldn't have to set that. i recommend deleting your config file and reinstalling. or set the path to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ElectricSheep\content/
thanks
shortcut to fullscreen running?
how did you do it before? it
how did you do it before? it should still work if it was something like this: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/liu1.mspx
how about just a way to RUN
how about just a way to RUN it in full screen? How hard can it be to answer a simple question? I could run 2.6.6 in full screen and all I have heard for months now is "the new version is way better". Well, how great can it be if it can't run fullscreen and nobody on this forum can tell Windows users how to do it?
You can start it fullscreen
You can start it fullscreen with the start menu command that's installed called "run electricsheep screensaver" or by pressing 'f' while it's running in a window to go fullscreen.
Thank you for the reply spot,
Thank you for the reply spot, that is exactly what I was looking for :)
Missing Packs?
Why do the Sheep Packs start at pack3 ?
the number comes from the 2nd
the number comes from the 2nd digit of the sheep in the pack, so pack 3 means 13XXX.
Problem downloading packs
I have trouble downloading the sheep packs. whenever the download of any of them is about halfway, it stops and concels, with firefox saying that the scource adress or something could not be read.
by now I manually downloaded 17 or so sheep and soem edges, but I really want to download the packs.
any suggestions?
PS I run windows XP
Blame your ISP
Torrents should work though.
Unless Spot has a problem
Unless Spot has a problem with it, I could create a torrent from all the sheep packs. I no longer know which sheep belong to which pack, but I don't think it'd be an issue, as you can always pick only the sheep you want.
Anyone for or against this?
I full heartedly support any
I full heartedly support any form of torrent for these types of files. NOOBS: learn where to put these, your C:\ProgramData\ElectricSheep\content\mpeg folder, for vista users at least, then youre golden. Viva la Torrente!
Edit: although after checking out your link to the torrent there are no seeders or leechers T____T
HDD had the wrong letter
HDD had the wrong letter assigned while I was gone; I'm seeding again.
Also, Mininova hasn't scraped the trackers since I uploaded it; I'm currently seeing 3 seeds and 4 peers.
please do -- the packs are
please do -- the packs are Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial licensed, so anyone can distribute them as long as it's free and in the metadata you say they are from Scott Draves and the Electric Sheep and link to electricsheep.org.
Click on "reuse" on the menu at the left for a full explanation of the policy.
I think I have everything
I think I have everything covered; feel free to point out if I missed something.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2952689
thanks that looks great, but
thanks that looks great, but (as you probably noticed) the html links didn't come out.
it also says there are 0 seeds, is that right??
Yeah, I can't seem to edit
Yeah, I can't seem to edit it, so I suppose it'll have to do, and no; I've been actively seeding it since I uploaded it, and will continue to do so until it has enough seeds to continue without me.
torrent packs
I would love to see some torrent packs. I have already downloaded the packs that spot made, but any opportunity for more sheep sounds great.