LiveShell Engine

Animated video wallpapers for the PS5 home screen.

• Discover: hundreds of animated wallpapers to download right on the PS5, by category (Anime, Games, Movies, ...) the list updates by itself.
• Library tab with all your games and apps, to give each one its own video (experimental).
• PS Store only: the video shows only on the PlayStation Store tile, with its own video.
• Sound: videos with sound play it.
• Game music: a game's own theme keeps playing when its video has no sound or Sound is on Mute
• Your clips from internal storage or a USB drive
• Looks: Dim, Vignette, Haze, all combinable
• Hide in Settings: Settings keeps the normal PS5 background
• Pause while a game runs, so games get the video decoder
• Parallax effect when moving between games
• Random video on every start
• Rest mode: comes back on its own after waking the PS5
• Home-screen app to pick, delete and control everything
• Phone / PC page to upload, play and delete videos

Needs a jailbroken PS5 with a payload loader.

1. Copy .mp4 files to /data/LiveShell/video, or to a liveshell folder on a USB drive.
2. Load liveshell.elf.
3. Open the LiveShell Engine on the home screen (Media).

Videos: H.264 and HEVC Only 1080p. with or without sound and 4k not supported yet.

1. Open the Discover tab.
2. Download and Press Use: it plays on the home screen or per game. Downloaded wallpapers also appear in All tab.

1. Open the Library tab and pick a game or app.
2. Choose its video. Reset gives it back the default background.

Keep all videos in one place (internal or USB) for the quickest switching.

A video for every tile

• 🎮 Games: PS5 and PS4
• 🧩 Homebrew and web-app tiles: Payload Manager, etaHEN Toolbox, and more
• 🛍️ PlayStation Store: with PS Store only.

Linux or WSL, with the PS5 payload SDK and the OnionHEN v0.9.0-beta2 source tree.

ONIONHEN=~/onionHEN-beta2 PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK=~/ps5-payload-sdk tools/build.sh

src/ is copied into OnionHEN as source/liveshell and built as the liveshell target.

• OnionHEN: payload injector, detour library and ShellUI groundwork
• PS5 Payload SDK: toolchain and PS5 libraries

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE.