Wallpapers with music/sound filter

[RDaneel]

Would it be possible to implement this filter? I'm interested in wallpapers with sound/music but it's hard to find them ...

[butcho]

I once suggested a filter for wallpapers that exceed a certain vram usage because i´m not a friend of simple wallpapers. These are hard to find without a filter, and devs screwed it with just a simple "No". Would have thought to at least get a bit of an explanation why this is not doable.

So good luck with your filter. Hopefully you´ll get a bit more than just a "No".

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by RDanOlivaw:

Would it be possible to implement this filter? I'm interested in wallpapers with sound/music but it's hard to find them ...

This doesn't exist because the program cannot easily tell if a video actually has sound.

The majority of silent video uploads do have an audio channel in them, just a very silent one, and the Windows video system doesn't easily provide Wallpaper Engine with reliable information about whether it truly has sound or not.

Additionally there is no easy way Steam allows us to retroactively update every single existing wallpaper. So even if we could find a solution to that problem now, it would be quite confusing because no old wallpaper would have this tag even when it has sound.

Originally posted by butcho:

I once suggested a filter for wallpapers that exceed a certain vram usage because i´m not a friend of simple wallpapers. These are hard to find without a filter, and devs screwed it with just a simple "No". Would have thought to at least get a bit of an explanation why this is not doable.

So good luck with your filter. Hopefully you´ll get a bit more than just a "No". :vahlen:

High VRAM usage leads to extremely poor performance depending on the system.

I know you don't agree with the VRAM limit and that's okay, but unfortunately we have to consider all users and cannot change our stance on this for now. I simply thought that you already knew that the VRAM recommendation exists for performance reasons and that's why I didn't keep repeating this every time you asked about raising the limit or working around it by a tag or category.

Besides that there are also simple wallpapers with high VRAM usage so it wouldn't work in the way you think. Like enormous GIFs or having a lot of high res image layers leads to high VRAM while not necessary looking like a complex animation.