Wallive 1.0.0

First release.

• Video wallpaper behind the desktop icons on Windows 11 24H2 and later (tested) and the classic WorkerW desktop of Windows 10 / older Windows 11 (implemented, not yet tested on real hardware).
• Same video on every monitor from one hardware decoder (several monitors not yet tested).
• Videos are converted once, in the background, into a format the PC decodes in hardware (H.264 at the largest monitor's size, 30 fps, no audio). Fragmented YouTube / DASH MP4 files work.
• Several videos: switch every 1 / 5 / 15 / 30 / 60 minutes at the end of a loop, in order or shuffled; Next video in the tray menu.
• Pauses when every monitor is covered, for fullscreen apps and games, when the display is off, with Battery / Energy Saver, when the session is locked, and optionally on battery. After 10 s of pause the decoder's memory is freed.
• Keeps working after Explorer restarts and display changes.
• Tray menu, Start with Windows, wallive --version.
• Per-user installer (no admin rights) built with Inno Setup.
• App icon: a dusk wave (violet sky, coral sun, teal wave under a white crest), drawn in code for the tray and the installer.

Measured on the development laptop (Intel iGPU, 1080p30): ~0.9% CPU on AC power, ~81 MB private memory while playing, 29 MB after 10 s paused, no disk reads after the first loop.

Install

Download Wallive-1.0.0-setup.exe and run it. No admin rights needed; it installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Wallive. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn: choose More info > Run anyway.

Check the download (PowerShell): Get-FileHash .\Wallive-1.0.0-setup.exe should match Wallive-1.0.0-setup.exe.sha256.

This is an early release, tested on one Windows 11 laptop. Please report how it runs on your PC with the Test report issue form.