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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2025
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I installed it yesterday and started having it chug through the Murderbot series I got in epub format. It seemed to be taking forever, but then I checked a system monitor and discovered it was using the GPU to do most of the work. So whenever my GPU-heavy screen saver kicked in, it slowed to a crawl.
At any rate, it was done this morning but then I forgot to bring the files to work, so I can't say at this point how good a job it did? It was a bit of a pain to install because it needed Python 12 and wouldn't accept Python 14 for some reason, and pyenv on my Mac is a bit of pain because it hates tkinter. Go figure. But I got it working in the end.
A little follow-up on this. Tonight I had a look at what it generated. It produced 2 files: a
.wavand a.ass. The latter apparently contains subtitles that sync to the audio. But how do you play them together?After searching around online, the general consensus seemed that you need to make a video file that throws it all together. For the background image I used a still of the book cover art. Then I ran an
ffmpegcommand that looked something like this:It sounds pretty awesome and looks like this while it's playing!
If you use VLC or some other capable player it'll automatically pick up the subtitles if they have the same name (sans extension).
Are you from the distant future? I have never heard anyone call Python 3.12 just Python 12.
So, a combined "Screen-saver" / "GPU-murderer" ? Neat - we can't save everyone ! ;-)