# cDima/Aerial

Aerial Apple TV screen saver for Windows

Repository: https://github.com/cDima/Aerial
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cdima-aerial
Language: C#
License Family: other
Topics: screensaver, apple, video, streaming, aerial, aerials, apple-tv
Last push: 2022-10-18T20:45:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3963, "days_push": 1415, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1980, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.689817+00:00)

## What it is
A Windows screen saver that reproduces the Apple TV aerial-view screen saver, streaming Apple's aerial videos of cities and landscapes. It is a C# port of the macOS Aerial screen saver by John Coates.

## Use cases
- get the Apple TV aerial screen saver on Windows
- display aerial drone videos as a Windows screensaver
- make my Windows PC look like an Apple TV when idle
- download and play Apple's aerial movies as a screen saver
- customize which aerial videos play on my screensaver

## When to choose
- you want the Apple TV aerial screensaver on Windows 7/8/10 and prefer this original implementation
- you need a lightweight native Windows screensaver with Apple's aerial footage

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained project - it is explicitly no longer supported
- you want updated videos and extra features - use OrangeJedi/Aerial instead
- you are on macOS or Linux

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, streaming
- domain: desktop-applications, media, windows
- platform: windows
- tags: screensaver, apple-tv, aerial-views, csharp, unsupported, desktop

## Member repositories
- cDima/Aerial (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.689817+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:59.972610+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cDima/Aerial (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.689817+00:00, sha d4d789a794bb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.