Lively - Animated Wallpaper System

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Turn Video & GIF Files, Emulators, HTML, Web address & Shaders, Games into Windows desktop wallpaper; Wallpapers will completely pause playback( 0% cpu & gpu usage) when fullscreen application/games are running.

Just drag & drop files, webpages to set as wallpaper..

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Lively is still in development, if you encounter bugs create a github Issue along with log file

Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Files

Lively Documentation

Features

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Video

Eternal Light by VISUALDON

Use external codec packs or internal windows codec.
Play .mp4, mkv, webm, avi, mov etc
Hardware Acceleration support.
Audio will mute when not on desktop.

Webpages

25th Hour by Loius Coyle

Load HTML file or web address as wallpaper.
Runs webgl, javascript .. basically anything that works on chrome.
Audio Reactive Wallpaper support, create wallpapers that react to system audio
Customisation support, documentation.

Youtube & streams

Just drag & drop youtube link to set as desktop wallpaper.
Video quality is adjustable in settings.

Shaders

Heartfelt by BigWIngs

Run GLSL shaders in browser.
Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.

GIFs

Nyan cat

Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...

Retro Game Emulators

Coming soon

Games & Applications

Can set Unity, Godot games and any application as wallpaper.
Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..

& more:

Easy to use, Just drag'n'drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
Hardware accelerated video playback, powered by mpv player.
Interactive webgl wallpapers, powered by lightweight chromium engine Cef.
Windows 10 fluent design, lively appearance adapts to system theme settings.
Efficient, its a native .net core application.
Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.

Performance:

Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.

Multiple monitor support:

Full Multiple monitor support.
Span single wallpaper across all screens.
Duplicate same wallpaper all screens.
Different wallpaper per screens.

I'm not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;

Download

Latest version: v1.0.7.0 (Windows 10 1903 or above)What's new?

Download Lively Wallpaper

Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.

Certain antivirus software heuristics algorithm will detect lively as a virus, this is a false positive lively is fully opensource, you are free to inspect the code.

Having trouble?

Issues

See github issues.

Contributing

Code contributions are welcome, check guidelines for making pull request.