How much does the video background slow down your computer ?
@BuboScandiacus It doesn't slow it down, but it might be because it's a very small video & the computer is good. The computer has video decoding hardware for the video format I'm using, so that might be reducing resource usage more. The wallpaper also supports automatically pausing the video under certain conditions to free resources, such as low battery or a window being fullscreen. I haven't tried this on a worse computer. It should only slow down the computer if it uses the CPU to decode the video, which happens if your graphics hardware doesn't support the format, or if the file is large & consumes alot of memory. I transcoded the video to AV1 because my graphics card can understand that format & because videos in that format have a very small file size. It's probably best to try out different things & see which one slows down your computer the least.
Oh, I didn’t know about that ! Thanks for the detailed answer ! How can I check what video format is supported on the hardware level by my graphics card ? Is there a command that tell it to me ?
@BuboScandiacus I don't know about a command that can do that, but usually the manufacturer will have that information. Search the video decoding capabilities of your GPU's chipset. Mine is an Acer Predator Bifrost with an AMD Radeon 7600 chipset, so I search "Radeon 7600 video decoding". Usually your fetch program can tell you what your graphics card is, but sometimes it can't tell. Mine can't tell what exactly my graphics card is, but I can still find out by reading what it says on the graphics card itself or the box it came in.
Thank you once again !
For future people reading this, here you can check for your nvidia card: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVDEC
I have an ultrawide so I like splitting the panels WAY up. It's just so much wasted space, otherwise. Lumping it all together in the center makes it intrusive again, but pushing everything out to the side and along the bottom are the areas that are most out of focus but still at-a-glance.
The App Launcher is set to autohide. In order to get this to work, make sure you set the Visibility for the floating panels to "Windows go below", otherwise it stacks them out on separate rows and looks awful.
My Lemmy app (Voyager) shows the video, so at least some of us can see it.
+1 for Eternity. Video embedded correctly.
@Deebster There are two pictures too. I know this is just one of those small differences between ActivityPub servers, but I thought there was some workaround I could do, I just forgot what it was.
Huh, so there is. I'm not 100% on how Voyager works - specifically I think (but don't know) that it's got the video because it's connected to the linked URL (your original post in this case) and pulled down data to make the link preview.
If that's right, it means Lemmy isn't handing the media at all.
@Deebster If the background is Pokemon, it's from the work in progress post & not this one.
By "linked" I meant that it's where the URL field of a Lemmy post is pointed at, not the other pages you linked in the post body. Now I'm on a PC again, I see that that link is to the leafy-backgrounded .mp4 (so there's no chance the embedder would have found the other post images if Lemmy didn't present them).
I think the mp4s-not-playing problem is a Mastodon bug/quirk as I've seen it before - neither Firefox nor Chrome can play them when navigated to, but both can play embedded and they work when downloaded. From the console logs, it seems to be a problem with the Content Security Policy stopping the rest of the video loading (since browsers only load the first chunk of a video to allow streaming):
Chrome:
Refused to load media from 'https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "default-src 'none'". Note that 'media-src' was not explicitly set, so 'default-src' is used as a fallback.
Firefox:
Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource (media-src) at https://furry.engineer/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/866/048/236/635/original/897a5752b038f3e3.mp4 because it violates the following directive: “default-src 'none'”
@Deebster I know that Mastodon does weird stuff to videos, but I'm not sure why the images won't work.
I'm not sure how the Mastodon--(ActivityPub)-->Lemmy bit works, but Lemmy doesn't have a concept of a gallery. The first(?) media is your video, and that's showing up in Lemmy. I assume it's dropping the other images since there's no Lemmy structure to put the other media items into.
btw, now I'm on Firefox/Win10 with the default Lemmy frontend and I can see that video and play it from Lemmy's embed, so perhaps most people can see it (as long as they don't click on the .mp4 link).
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