A downloadable App

Intro

Video 2 Live Wallpaper 
- A FREE and easy-to-use live wallpaper app for Windows.

> Link to my dev post for the curious.

Drag a video/image into the window and click MAKE WALLPAPER (Shift + F).

That's it!


Click the tray icon to toggle between Window/Wallpaper Mode.


Right-click the tray icon for more options.


NOTE: This is a fully functional prototype.

But-- There are some minor issues I'm aware of. For example, it would be nice to have a 'launch on startup' option, and to save the Balloon Tips setting.

This is the current interface, as of v0.15b. If you want the version without the AI-model and experimental features, download v0.14b.


Release Log

04/24/2024 | 0.1b:

  • First release.

04/24/2024 | 0.5b:

  • NEW toggle: Start w/ Windows
  • NEW toggle: Tray Notifications
  • NEW toggle: Spectrum Visualizer

0.5b -These will now save across program relaunches and system reboots.

Starting with Windows requires writing the application path to the user's registry, which may trigger some anti-virus programs. You may safely ignore/bypass these, or simply don't enable Start w/ Windows.

It's disabled by default so it's optional either way.

05/02/2024 | 0.6b:

  • Added: 
    • 'System Information' toggle.
    • Audio-reactive date-time display.
      • Pulse and glow.
  • Updated:
    • Spectrum visualizer.

05/13/2024 | 0.8b:

  • Added: 
    • Date-Time toggle.
    • Wallpaper Fit modes.
    • Image -> wallpaper.
    • Copy-paste media as wallpaper.
  • Removed:
    • Splash screen.

05/22/2024 | 0.14b:

  • Updated: 
    • Several internal tweaks.

05/23/2024 | 0.15b:

  • Added: 
    • Experimental "Window 2 Wallpaper" (toggle).
      • Hold down Shift, then click on any window to make it your wallpaper. This should work with any window, and allow you do make anything into a live wallpaper- games, browser windows (full screen YouTube, etc...).
    • Experimental AI-generated, automatic 2D image -> 3D depth-based parallax.
      • Additional UI controls allow you to tweak the depth map.
      • Note: the AI model is the reason for the file size gain.
    • Layer parallax controls.
      • Allows you to specify how much scaling and rotational parallax you want on your live wallpaper layer. It's best used with the 3D image depth feature.

Please let me know what you think!

> Ideas, suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, etc...

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Download

Download
Video 2 Live Wallpaper (v0.14b).zip 52 MB
Download
Video 2 Live Wallpaper (0.15b).zip 110 MB

Install instructions

1. Extract the zip file and run 'Video 2 Live Wallpaper.exe'.




Development log

Comments

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New update with audio-reactive date-time display.

I’ve also streamlined the interface:

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New update with live audio spectrum visualizer just dropped.

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First and second devlogs are now published. Feel free to have a read if you’re interested in glancing at how this project is moving along :)