http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLVSaqvshRc (ty nowardev)
Thanks Lukas Krejza, but Gryffus for SUSE packages
Thanks dglent for the Mandriva rpm!It installs TWO files which can be easily deleted by:
# rm /usr/lib/kde4/wallpapervideo.so
# rm /usr/share/kde4/services/video.desktop
KDE4 is usually installed to /usr/, if not then "kde4-config --prefix" will tell u where instead.
Messy unstyled code BUT its optimised and FAST
To KDE devs: It just looks messy but the code is fine- I can clean it up to fit KDE guidelines if needed.We live in 2009. Computers can easily handle this. We should be prettifying our desktops a lot more.
If a kind person makes me packages I'll upload
thxAVI
MKV
OGG
MPG
MPEG
OGV
MP4
OGM
ASF
FLV
WMV
Note: Small filesize videos => More compressed => Take longer to decode => Eat the most CPU
Best is raw AVI
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Video wallpapers are a feature I would like for KDE, so I definitely support this! I see it hasn't been updated in quite a while however, so I doubt it will work with Plasma 5. Does anyone know if the addon is compatible with the latest version of Plasma Desktop?
It's also not compatible with the new version of ffmpeg (some functions that used to be deprecated have finally been removed). It's too bad, that thing here looks quite awesome.
It's possible to Compile, I've done it, BUUUUUUUUUUT it crashes a lot. It's for playing not for working.
$ make [ 0%] Built target wallpapervideo_automoc [ 33%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/wallpapervideo.dir/vid.o In file included from /usr/include/KDE/KNS/Engine:1:0, from /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:12: /usr/include/KDE/KNS/../../knewstuff2/engine.h:159:5: Warnung: »Engine« ist veraltet [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /usr/include/KDE/KNS/../../knewstuff2/engine.h:159:5: Warnung: »Engine« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/KDE/KNS/../../knewstuff2/engine.h:43) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /usr/include/KDE/KNS/../../knewstuff2/engine.h:159:5: Warnung: »Engine« ist veraltet [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp: In Elementfunktion »void Tutorial1::Init()«: /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:85:6: Warnung: »int av_open_input_file(AVFormatContext**, const char*, AVInputFormat*, int, AVFormatParameters*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1368) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:85:99: Warnung: »int av_open_input_file(AVFormatContext**, const char*, AVInputFormat*, int, AVFormatParameters*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1368) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:89:6: Warnung: »int av_find_stream_info(AVFormatContext*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1412) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:89:36: Warnung: »int av_find_stream_info(AVFormatContext*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1412) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:99:51: Fehler: »CODEC_TYPE_VIDEO« wurde in diesem Gültigkeitsbereich nicht definiert /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:120:6: Warnung: »int avcodec_open(AVCodecContext*, AVCodec*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4035) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:120:36: Warnung: »int avcodec_open(AVCodecContext*, AVCodec*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h:4035) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp: In Elementfunktion »void Tutorial1::DeInit()«: /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:163:5: Warnung: »void av_close_input_file(AVFormatContext*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1580) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:163:35: Warnung: »void av_close_input_file(AVFormatContext*)« ist veraltet (deklariert bei /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h:1580) [-Wdeprecated-declarations] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp: In Elementfunktion »virtual QWidget* Tutorial1::createConfigurationInterface(QWidget*)«: /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:265:40: Warnung: Vergleich zwischen vorzeichenbehafteten und vorzeichenlosen Ganzzahlausdrücken [-Wsign-compare] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp: In Elementfunktion »virtual void Blaa::run()«: /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:379:53: Fehler: »avcodec_decode_video« wurde in diesem Gültigkeitsbereich nicht definiert /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:381:1: Warnung: Vergleich zwischen vorzeichenbehafteten und vorzeichenlosen Ganzzahlausdrücken [-Wsign-compare] /home/ralph/src/plasma-video-wallpaper/vid.cpp:384:1: Warnung: Vergleich zwischen vorzeichenbehafteten und vorzeichenlosen Ganzzahlausdrücken [-Wsign-compare] make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/wallpapervideo.dir/vid.o] Fehler 1 make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/wallpapervideo.dir/all] Fehler 2 make: *** [all] Fehler 2
Awesome except it uses huge amount cpu power so for now its kinda useless, great program/plugin but need to be fixed
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50401 But seems that this package was abandoned... very sad. Would be awesome if it would use vdpau and also use CPU not so intensive. When I watch some video in VLC it's take about 2-5% of my CPU, but if I try the same video with this extension it will use all 100%. But still, this is an awesome idea for addon, try it with these videos: http://www.mydigitallife.info/beautiful-vista-dream-scene-desktop-video-wallpaper-with-nature-theme/
Hey on slackware13.1 (with kde 4.5.5) after installation I cant choose a video file for play. the same like in the wallpaperclock, but there i can paste the file to the directory where the system saves wallpaper clock, /home/danielo/.kde/share/apps/plasma/clockwallpapers/ and its ok. I got the wallpaper clock. So is there any chance to set the video manualy in system files? Please help. I tried with mplayer and xwinwrap, but it sucks.
Excelent!!!! The installation was dificult but worth it :), great. Thanks,
Where I can find videos or presentations such as the Youtube video? Thanks.
http://blip.tv/file/get/Nowardev-AnimationKubuntuLogo649.avi this is the videos i have rendered there is the project , blender project if you have a strong computer you could render a longer video...
you should try: xwinwrap -ni -o 0.3 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet '/path/to/video/files/*.avi' -loop 0
The link for the Mandriva package is broken. Can you fix this please?
on fedora system's you need to su -c 'cp -r /usr/include/ffmpeg/* /usr/include/' before compiling I am building an RPM for this but there are in the new version of sws_scale some changes and build fails error: initializing argument 2 of Б─≤int sws_scale(SwsContext*, const uint8_t**, int*, int, int, uint8_t* from line 404 in vid.cpp pls fix it
Video option shows up in config but no file selection dialog here is screenshot http://imagebin.ca/view/chkC6fji.html any advices? i had tried to reboot computer..no changes
i have made a package for kubuntu with cpack with this way : http://nowardev.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/how-to-create-a-debian-package-for-script-and-for-project-that-use-cmake/ download link http://www.mediafire.com/?nob5m4mmuix i have tested on my system and it's working fine it's pretty simple to do :)
that sick wordpress doesn't recognize the correct stuff i hate that every time it replace -- with -
I L-O-V-E the idea but... done install and nothing changed :( I don't have an option to choose a video in display properties window, just image, slide show and color... Kubuntu 9,10 64bit with KDE 4.3.4 That's what I get when I try something from the other post: Quote::~$ ls /usr/lib/kde4/wallpapervideo.so
ls: nie ma dostępu do /usr/lib kde4/wallpapervideo.so: No such file or directory
:~$ cat /usr/share/kde4/services/video.desktop
cat: /usr/share/kde4/services/video.desktop: No such file or directory
:~$ kde4-config --prefix
/usr
Maybe it's because of:
Quote::~$ make -j3
[ 0%] Built target wallpapervideo_automoc
[100%] Built target wallpapervideo
??
plz hlp ;)
Solved. I used cmake line from http://nowardev.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/video-for-your-desktop/ which is a bit erong. There is:Quote:cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config –prefix`
Should be:Quote:cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
Runs slow but I'm gonna get some raw avis and we'll how it's going to work then.
Cheers ;)
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: EAPI="2" inherit kde4-base S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}" DESCRIPTION="Kde4 plasmoid for playing video as wallpaper" HOMEPAGE="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Animated+Video+Wallpaper?content=112105" SRC_URI="http://www.kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-files/112105-plasma-video-wallpaper.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3" KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86" SLOT="0" IUSE="debug" RDEPEND=" >=kde-base/plasma-workspace-${KDE_MINIMAL} " pkg_postinst() { kde4-base_pkg_postinst }
Would be nice, if you could include the version number in the tar archive, because of packaging purposes. m0nk
sure. tell me what to write.
Probably a dot-release, so plasma-video-wallpaper-0.1.tar.gz to start with, and then when you make: minor changes - add 0.1 major changes - add 1.0 for example: plasma-video-wallpaper-0.2.tar.gz plasma-video-wallpaper-1.0.tar.gz
This is very cool - Imagine a nice easy KDE4 video playing when you log into your desktop for the first time, or many other possibilities. Unfortunately really cpu-low cost movies are choppy in fullscreen - seems like it is repainting every frame.
All HD movies (720p and 1080p) work slow and show up as being blocky instead of smooth. Any idea if this can be fixed?
I'm not a huge KDE 4 coder, but I noticed that Phonon has a built-in video widget and appears to be able to play back video that way... could that be a better way to implement the video playback? I have some videos you recommended, and on my system (Core 2 @ 3.6 Ghz) the CPU usage is through the roof when the videos are in the background, but when I play the exact same videos in mplayer or VLC I get only single-digit % CPU usage.