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matheusmoreira on Aug 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: High performance X11 animated wallpapers

Isn't it possible to use mpv for this?

  mpv --wid=0

Causes mpv to draw to the root window.

I even found a guide:

https://github.com/digip/linux-video-wallpaper

Not sure what the performance is like though.

dijit on Aug 3, 2020 [–]

Performance is pretty good, probably even better than TFA, due to the hardware decode of the video.

That said, in both cases transparency of things like terminals is going to be very resource hungry.

Also, if you're doing the --wid=0, throw in --loop there too. :)

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