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On many computers, the monitor powers off after a period of time. There's no sense wasting electricity and overheating computer components by displaying the animations after the monitor has powered off. Even if your CPU is off-loaded by your graphics card, it is still using power and generating almost as much heat.
I'd suggest adding an option to specify a number of minutes after which video is no longer displayed. Perhaps the Electric Sheep logo can be placed on the screen and moved every 30 seconds instead, just in case the monitor is still on. The screensaver can continue to aid in creating new animations. There are screensaver managers that will turn off a screensaver after N minutes, but they all cost money (for Windows anyway) and that would stop the generation of new frames for the animation.
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