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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.

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

Join Discussions:

<a href="https://discord.gg/TwwtBCm">Discord group</a>
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LivelyWallpaper/">Reddit</a>

Lively is still in development, if you encounter bugs create a github Issue along with <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Common-Problems"> log file</a>

Help translate lively to other languages: <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively-translations">Translation Files</a>

<a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki">Full Documentation</a>

Features

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Video

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<a href="https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-view-of-a-foggy-landscape-2547258/">Foggy Landscape</a> by Tom Fisk

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.

Youtube & streams

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Just drag & drop youtube link to set as desktop wallpaper.
Video quality is adjustable in settings.
Additional software <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Youtube-Wallpaper">required.</a>

Web Pages & html

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<a href="http://louie.co.nz/25th_hour/"> 25th Hour</a> 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 <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Web-Guide-II-:-System-Audio-Data">system audio</a>
Customisation support, <a href="https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Web-Guide-IV-:-Interaction">documentation.</a>

Shaders

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<a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lscczl">The Universe Within</a>, <a href="https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MdfBRX">The Drive Home</a> by BigWIngs

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

Retro Game Emulators

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Coming soon

Games

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Can launch Unity & Godot games as wallpaper.
Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..

GIFs

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Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...

Other Applications

Experimentail, works for some.

& more:

Easy to use, Just drag & drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
Real-time customisable web wallpaper support.
Easy to share Lively-zip format, just drag & drop the zip file to import it into Library, use the built-in creator to make them (ensures compatibility).
Hardware accelerated video playback, with option to use external Directshow codec of your choice. ( LAV(recommended), K-Lite, Kawaii Codec..)
Library to browse and preview wallpapers.
You can use it alongside rainmeter.
Efficient, its a native c# wpf application with c++ calls.
Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.

multiple monitor support:

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

Regarding Performance:

Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
Optionally you can set wallpaper to only play when on desktop.
Application rules: Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.(like always pause when photoshop is open etc)
Based on display(multiple monitor): Pause wallpaper playback per-display(depending on which monitor fullscreen apps/games run) or all display(s).
Kill wallpaper when fullscreen apps/games run(coming soon).
Mute audio when not on desktop (or optionally always mute).

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

Download

Latest version: v0.9.6.0 (Windows 10, 8.1)What's new?

Download Lively Installer
102MB, Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.
Download Lively Portable
111MB, (No Installation & updater) Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.

Portable build: Latest Visual C++ Redistributable is required: vc_redist.x86.exe

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

~~TODO List~~

See github issues.

Contributing

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

Some Lively languages are machine translated,