Use my own pictures in the Screen Saver

The photo screen saver does a great job and ensures that media is displayed all the time, even if you just happen to be listening to music. By default, the photos come from flickr and are downloaded regularly to your local drives.

But it would be nice to use your own photos in this screen saver, perhaps alongside the flickr ones or perhaps as a replacement.

This is a guide to do just that...

Background

All media on your linuxMCE system is catalogued and stored in a database. The database allows for attributes to be stored for each media file. One such attribute is "Screen Saver For MD". By setting this attribute this picture will be used as one of the pictures for the Media Director Screen Saver. Photos are selected by random from all the photos that exist with the attribute set.