I haven't transcoded video in many years, but these are some tools I used in a distant past. For normal use:

Really simple to use is "Miro" ( mirovideoconverter.com ). Select a file, select output format and convert. This software was great when converting for specific (older) devices. But it's is probably the easiest to use that I can think of and when looking at the site they claim to support webm.

If you want more control you can go with Handbrake ( handbrake.fr ) that is also open source and you can configure all kinds of transcoding settings and should be able to convert to webm too but the crowded interface might seem a bit complex.

As with downloading any software on windows, be sure to have a virus scanner running like windows defender or any other 3rd party option.

okay i will try that any programs you recommend for doing that?

@jisr10142 What is exactly the problem? Keep in mind that videos have to be encoded as webm or ogg/ogv files as those are the formats webwallpapers in WE can play.

the video adding does not work.

TPB fan and makes great wallpapers couldn't get any better

amazing background bro

Okay, no problem ;)

@Gorzon My guess is that you allow the wallpaper to pause. I've only become aware of this problem last month ( some update in WE doesnt play well in my old code ). But thanks to RL stuff I haven't gotten around to fixing my wallpapers. But thanks for reminding me as I had almost forgotten again. I can't say when I will have it patched but I will try to do it asap.

It's very great ! But sometimes a "console" appear.

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It would be cool if you could set the top to be the left frequencies and the bottom to be the right

@luece A threshold option has been implemented. You can find it at the bottom of the settings.

Reply part 1/2 : MP4 codec aren't in the CEF framework which WE uses for webwallpapers. I think WE would require a seperate license to include that. Webm and OGG ( ogv/ogm ) are open/free formats tho.

As for encoding, I can't really give good advice on that. But from my basic experience I can only say there is always some loss when re-encoding but you could try increasing the bitrate. Also depending on the encoder ( unsure if thats the case for webm ) there can be different encoding profiles, some are slow but more precise and some are fast but inaccurate. But really can't say what might give the best result.

Reply part 2/2: Another possibility, but really cant say if this is really possible. But from memory I remember that the video files are a wrapper/container with data + the video stream in them. If the video stream is supported by webm/ogg, you might be able to just convert the container while now converting the video stream at all. But I really wouldn't know if that would work in your case. But if your handy you could try to search for "converting video container" or "changing video container" or something like that.

But do be careful because there is a lot of crappy software for video conversion out there. Don't just download the first results you find on google but do research the software first.

Is there a way to use a mp4 video as background? or a way to make a webm video look good? it loses so much quality when rendering in webm :(

I have some extra time planned this/next week to try and catch up on some of my wallpaper work. I will give this some more priority and try to add the option in this wallpaper sooner rather than later.

welp something broke it again :P, atm im using VU Meter, works really wekk, just a little peep before the threshold kicks in

Highly customizable, mesmerizing, beautifull. Fantastic wallpaper!

Nice.. Had already implemented the threshold in 3 audiowallpapers. Still usefull as I have seen but reports of software that generates a soft noise.

welp, either the new windows update or WE update fixed it :3, woo random fix

If I understand right, you want a threshold setting to make the wallpaper consider the faint noise from soundwire as silent right? I never thought of adding an option of that but it could solve some problems others have had too ..

I can't say when I will be adding it, I am still catching up on some promises I made, but I think I might have to add that into many of my wallpapers.

Is it possible to integrate an input volume threshold? For some odd reason after reinstalling on a new hdd SoundWire is causing some very strange effects, it is creating the same silent audio, after a normal sound plays it stays relatively flat, after about 5 seconds the low frequency animates at a sharp curve and the high at a steady curve. the ability to adjust the treshold would be a quick and dirty fix until a solution is found.

Very nice my friend

.webm and .ogv ... Webwallpapers run on chromium and it only supports open formats and as a result mp4 is not included.

Just wondering, what file formats does the wallpaper support video-wise. I cant seem to get mp4's to work.

Updated. The normalization is limited and shouldn't amplify these inaudible signals anymore.. The update includes a lot of other small changes that I intended to do for a long time.

Video shows exactly what I am getting except I was testing with music ;) Just little bumps in the shape are different but the overal shape is identical.

I have a few ideas to test. But I am just really happy I think I can finally reproduce and with that be able to actually patch or in any case figure out whats going on exactly.

Bingo. Found the source of my issue.
There was, for some ungodly reason, a version of windows chrome running silently in the background. Even when I closed actual chrome it was sitting there not showing up on any process lists.
Managed to turn that off, now the issue went away.

So your guess was right, there is definitely something going on with inaudible background processes.

Take your time.
It's not really a bug that bothers me all too much, it's just not knowing what's causing it that's getting me riled up, yknow?
I'm going to keep running tests to see if I can pinpoint a specific issue.

Don't mute WE :) Muting WE means you muted the recording of all audio. It doesn't sound logical as it you think of it as the output volume, thats why. But it still tells me that there is a signal coming from somewhere. Thanks a lot!

I am going to go ahead with my assumption that for some reason under certain circumstances there might be an inaudible signal. While I can't fix that, I can try to patch my wallpapers for this problem. Everything at the moment points to me making a lot of mistakes, and I have to recheck a lot of assumptions now that I can reproduce the problem.

As for a patch, I will try to get one upload within the next 24, probably in 23h and 59m.

https://youtu.be/iSa3lOh1TNc
Here's a video I took showing exactly what is happening

Systematically purging open applications one by one has resulted in no change, same with muting background processes beforehand.
There doesn't seem to be any open processes on my computer that could be capable of producing sound.

This might be useful information, but this seems like it's trying to animate regardless of whether or not the option is selected to animate when silent, as it only happens when there is no sound being created from my computer. All the lines flatline and rest, then suddenly jolt into that wavy configuration, occasionally pulsing like it's trying to animate, but the lines themselves stay perfectly still.

Of course, now that I've muted wallpaper engine it isn't registering sounds at all.
I'm going to test this some more.

Interestingly, muting wallpaper engine itself seemed to fix the issue, which is weird since I set it to not play sounds from the start.
Not sure what was causing that to happen, since my computer wasn't even registering sound, but the issue seems to be fixed now that I've muted wallpaper engine.

Strange.

Thanks for the screenshots. Could you try one thing. Could you open the volume mixer and toggle the mute on all software one by one to see if the lines fall flat if you mute one of them. But skip WE as WE muted disables audio processing.

While not 100% identical, your screenshot is very closely similar to what I was seeing earlier tonight and I think the reason is the same then. For me it was caused by a very low signal coming from Unity which I had open in the background. And with very low I really mean practically silent, unhearable. Another report on a different wallpaper said it came from TeamSpeak3, but I wasn't able to reproduce that. And I think one other older report might be similar but I wrote that off initially as a one time problem.

Well if it is what I think then I guess my first post was accurate without realizing it. I will investigate my Unity situation some more. I think in that case what I did alter because of Unity might be the route to a decent patch for this.

https://gyazo.com/aa2385557e0c7bc5b97c9d10c6330d6b
This is what happens after several moments of silence

https://gyazo.com/2120d7f03a7a52dc6b00d7aae10efe99
This is what it looks like just after a sound stops playing, before it goes wavy.

I've tried re-installing wallpaper engine, unsubscribing and resubscribing several times, and my system isn't making any residual noise to make the animation. Animate when silent is unchecked as well.

Correction, didnt find it. When I tested I noticed the problem wasn't what I thought and the problem I saw was caused by something else.

What animations are you seeing? With the animation checkbox turned off it should end up with flat lines but still change the colors if you are using color rotations. Could it be there is some very source audio coming from some application?

Found it. It wasnt working properly at all for me. Will take me a bit to update the wallpaper on steam. I want to try and add in some things I was planning to or agree to do first. This wallpaper hasn't had an update in a long time.

The "Animate when Silent" button doesn't seem to be working for me when I uncheck it, there are still animations happening even though the box is unchecked.

Hi luece .. I fear that would be more work then im willing to still invest in this wallpaper at the moment. But when I get arround to updating this wallpaper I will check if it would be easy for me to copy the code I wrote for another wallpaper. If copying the code & settings is easy, I will add it in the next update.

this would probably be a massive addition, but i would love having the option of a clock to this amazing wallpaper

Cheers man, no worries. Looking forward to it.

I still have an update I need to do on this wallpaper and will try to add it then. Sounds simple enough.. Not sure when it will be, will probably be a while.

Would it be possible to make it so that the low frequencies start at the centre and work their way out? Rather than at the sides and come in. Love the wallpaper, cheers.

These are actual audio visualizers, better than all the shitty circle ones. Too bad there isn't an actual good visualizer though, like ProjectM for IOS/Android

Pretty legit, the aditional image in the background makes it 100% awesome.

Added it in .. It's at the bottom of the settings ( once you get the update )

Oh, alright. Thank you!

Sorry, thought this was the other wallpaper :) I can add that option .

You could try unchecking "Animate when Silent" .. Deep down in the settings, just above where the Equalizer section starts.