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GhostNaN / mpvpaper

A video wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors.
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Feature request: Output of a window as the input to mpvpaper (e.g. YouTube pop out player) #40

Closed ckcr4lyf closed 1 year ago

ckcr4lyf commented 1 year ago

First of, I am a noob when it comes to compositors / wayland protocols, so I am not sure if this is even possible.

I wonder if it would be possible to take the "video output" (i.e. the window if it were fullscreen) and "pipe" it to mpvpaper or similar.

My use case is I play YouTube in a pop out window, it would be kinda cool if I could make one of those my desktop background.

example. of the pop out player: image

GhostNaN commented 1 year ago

I'm having a hard time understanding your request to be honest. It sounds like you want a program's window as a background? If that's the case, even if it is possible, it's out of scope for this project.

"mpvpaper is a wallpaper program for wlroots based wayland compositors, such as sway. That allows you to play videos with mpv as your wallpaper."

Funnily enough this question is exactly why I started this project: https://old.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/i0sdcz/is_there_a_way_to_set_a_window_as_the_background/

ckcr4lyf commented 1 year ago

Funnily enough this question is exactly why I started this project:

haha, thats kinda funny. My specific use case is to play youtube as the desktop background, so I'll focus my search into passing youtube to mpv.

Thanks for this project!

GhostNaN commented 1 year ago

Dude... just use yt-dlp. It's built into mpv. Install yt-dlp then try: mpvpaper '*' "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"

ckcr4lyf commented 1 year ago

That is one workaround I have, I wanted to be able to still keep navigating and using YouTube UI in the browser as well

GhostNaN commented 1 year ago

That.. I can't do. Nevermind.