The captions could be more legible against light-colored backgrounds, and an anti-repeat check (or better randomization routine) for switch-timings under 30 seconds would be helpful. There are a couple areas where JBS could stand to be improved. PRO TIP 3: Google Street View can often help you nail down a tentative ID.) PRO TIP 2: Any signs you can manage to read - street signs, business names, etc. (PRO TIP 1: Bing Visual Search is frequently but not always more helpful than Google Image Search. ) On a more serious note, researching my wallpapers helped me hone my photo-identification skills. (There’s a reason most of them have “poison,” “poison-dart,” or “poison-arrow” in their common names. Also, I learned to avoid touching any small, colorful frogs in Central America or northern South America. For example, when I watched the season 3 premiere of “Star Trek: Discovery” a few days ago, I knew *instantly* that one of the filming locations was Iceland’s Eldhraun Lava Field, because I had previously identified a wallpaper of the damn place. I’m pretty sure It’s added some features since then.) I prefer JBS to Windows’ native wallpaper slideshow feature because I’ve gone to some trouble to identify and accurately name my wallpapers, and with JBS you have the option of displaying the filenames as captions.īTW, identifying my wallpapers was pretty tedious - I had to break it up over many, many tolerably short sessions - but it was also pretty educational, with a lot of real-world payoffs. I have a pretty nice collection of static (non-animated) wallpapers and I’ve been running them in a random slideshow using John’s Background Switcher. Note: The tray menu's "Script Paused" option doesn't seem to work. The program can be set to start automatically with Windows. To revert to your normal desktop background, click the reset button in AutoWall's interface. MPV will continue running in the background to display the animated background, regardless of whether AutoWall is running or not. So, you may run the program, change the wallpaper, and exit it. To close AutoWall, right click on its tray icon, and select Exit. But the good news is you don't need to keep it running in the background. The AutoWall.exe used about 10MB in the background. It is advisable to use images and videos which are smaller in size, so it doesn't impact your system or uses up your laptop's battery. a 2MB GIF used about 70MB, while a 170MB video used around 100MB of RAM. IF your wallpaper is larger, the resource usage will naturally be higher, e.g. MPV's performance was at 3-5% CPU, the memory usage was at around 50. What is the performance impact of AutoWall? Most of the GIFs I recorded were pretty huge in size, so here's a short sample of the Mario wallpaper. The application also comes with the Weebp open-source wallpaper engine, which AutoWall uses along with the MPV video player in the background to display animated wallpapers. There is a reason why it is so big, the program ships with the MPV executable which is around 60MB and has a couple of DLLs required for the player. When extracted, the folder measures about 64MB in size. That is a good thing, otherwise it would get pretty distracting.ĪutoWall is a portable software and comes in a 23.5MB archive. The program does not support audio, so even if your videos have some sound, it will not be played. So you can have your favorite scene from a movie, sports, or even a game's video as your desktop background. In addition to Animated GIFs, AutoWall also supports the following video formats: AVI, MP4 and MOV. AutoWall has a sample Full HD GIF in its "VideosHere" folder. If you have a Full HD display, look up "1920 x 1080 GIFs" or "free stock videos" and you'll find plenty to choose from. Most GIFs are not full screen, so unless you have one that matches your desktop's resolution, it will look a bit odd. AutoWall does not scale the wallpaper to fit your screen size. Your desktop should now have the animated wallpaper as the background. Hit the apply button and watch the magic. The text field in Autowall should display the path of the selected file. Select an animated GIF from your computer. Click on the browse button to select the file that you want to use as your wallpaper. AutoWall is a simple program that allows you to use animated GIFs and videos as your wallpaper.Įxtract the archive, run the Autowall executable and you'll see a compact GUI appear.
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