Custom Animated Wallpaper
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@c0n5c13nc3 Go to opera://about and check the path section.
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Unknown-Variable last edited by Unknown-Variable
yo does anyone know how to do this without 8 years in wizardry school and a time machine to download programs that no longer exist or links which have long expired? I mean I'm literally just trying to set a video on my pc as a background for the browser, is there no program in the world which can simply just convert a video file to a webp file? or an app? or an addon? or a mod? heck why doesn't the browser just do it itself????
why do I have to go through an 8 step process where 4 of the steps are actually book long endeavors shortened to 3 words which I have to spend hours researching and the other 4 no longer work?
at this point it's almost starting to feel like It'd be more time efficient to just build my own browser from scratch.
maybe I just have bad luck.
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Unknown-Variable last edited by leocg
@unknown-variable so I guess you can only edit things once on these forums? good to know.
anyways it's been what, like 10 hours? maybe less since I last posted, but around that time since I started? after running around downloading several programs to do several things, none of which ever worked, and then downloaded even more programs to manually do all the steps those previous failed programs should've done, which then apparently had something like a hundred pages of text that's meant to guide you on how to install the f#cking program because it's so outdated that you can't just click a button to get it to install itself... I'm at the end of my rope here. I'm not gonna spend days, or ever weeks, just to maybe get a single f#cking background.
don't get me wrong, I found lots of halfway solutions, like oh yeah I could get a 400 pixel wide background playing at a crisp 60 fps, or an 8k pixel wide background playing at a crunchy 3 fps, but nothing inbetween. not a goddamn thing. hell there isn't even a premium option for a conversion website which would allow me to do so, just a bunch of half measures, a bunch of failed programs and apps, a bunch of image squence programs which I hoped would somehow help me make a decent webp, but are unfortunately incapable of going beyond 5 fps.
hell I even went through a few tutorials which showed the "step by step" process of doing it right, but that was unfortunately a dead end as a few of those "steps" would either show a fully installed and running program rather than installing it from the ground up, and either the features needed for that step were premium and the person making the tutorial just didn't know, or the option to enable those features was buried somewhere within the hundreds of buttons onscreen.
nah I'm done. f#ck it. this browser obviously isn't ready for animated backgrounds yet. maybe if I wait a few years it'll miraculously gain some f#cking functionality.
strange how I'm suddenly able to edit more than twice. I guess you just aren't allowed to edit once you look away?
well, I guess the reason I got this browser in the first place was because it functioned, and could limit itself so it didn't crash constantly like chrome, and because chrome just decided to stop working and started redirecting me to bing and yahoo, so I guess it doesn't matter if the customization is severely limited, like not being able to pick and choose sounds from different mods, or use video backgrounds, or rearrange the sidebar other than just deleting or adding the few supported options. unless there's a hidden option for that somewhere OTHER than the sections in the settings specifically meant for those things?
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neiroe last edited by
@unknown-variable The method posted by burnout a while back in the thread works just fine. It just takes some time for the wallpapers to show up in the browser after its done. Mine waited like a day at first (for reasons I don't understand, honestly.) As far as converting, you can just google mp4 to webm and most of the sites will do a fine job. It seems like you've been trying to use webp, which is just the wrong file type, and would explain your issues getting it to work. Anyone interested in the wizarding school method of converting files should look into ffmpeg.
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DivineDivinity last edited by
@Unknown-Variable its actually surprisingly simple. convert your file on https://cloudconvert.com and follow all the previous instructions here. If you're on mac like me follow what @burnout426 said.
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DivineDivinity last edited by
@divinedivinity also you must restart your browser to get the changes to show up. Its really easy to do if you know how to package ZIP files and find a specific apps file directory
I think what you were trying to do was involve a program but this doesn't need any program at all
if you'd like to see how I made my custom file here's the link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zu0AbZKZ4SeYy9gPy_JwSRdVcFddTo5c/view?usp=sharing
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Allequiz last edited by
Can someone help me? I did all those .zip file steps mentioned, but when I tried to add as wallpaper, I click at the .zip file and it simply close and does nothing. What it could be?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@allequiz If you upload the zip file somewhere and link to it here, we can see what's wrong with it.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@zaevab55555 If you installed https://addons.opera.com/en/wallpapers/details/beautiful-waterfall/, its zip file will be at "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\themes\beautiful-waterfall.zip".
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@zaevab55555 Are you use regular Opera (Opera One) or Opera GX?
Also, hit ctrl + o in Opera and point Opera to cool.webm to load it directly in Opera. Does the video play fine that way?
