youtube video: failed to catch application window about lively HOT 11 CLOSED

What application did you try to load as wallpaper?

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i'm trying to drag a youtube vid )earth views: earth from space seen from the iss) to the lively console when i get the error... have mpv and youtube-dl.exe installed.

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Something changed in mpv latest version #13

Currently will only work with the version of mpv listed in the wiki download: https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Youtube-Wallpaper

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yes, that's the mpv player i installed... well actually i didn't "install" it (didn't use the mpv install bat), instead i copied the extracted zip contents to c:\users\name\documents\lively wallpaper\external\mpv per the instructions, and that's where i also copied the youtube-dl.exe file as well.... i also tried to install mv c+ 2010 but got an error saying a new newer version had already been installed.

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1. To verify if youtube-dl is working properly: open mpv.exe and drag and drop the youtube link into it, see if that is loading.

2. Is your internet slow? Try Exiting lively from tray then open SaveData\lively_config.json using notepad and edit the WallpaperWaitTime value, its in milliseconds (Default is 30sec)

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mpv crashes when i drag a youtube vid to it, just closes out... my internet speed is fast.

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btw, thanks very much for your help, very much appreciated.... also, i get the error message after about 5 secs even tho message is saying that it's taking longer than 30 secs...

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Your welcome.

get the error message after about 5

Yes, meaning the application/mpv already exited.

This looks like a youtube-dl issue to me, I tried with the latest version of youtube-dl and worked fine on my system.

Also to see whats happening with mpv, do the same as above but add -log-file

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojhjBrzmNjo --force-window=yes --loop-file --keep-open --hwdec=yes --ytdl-format bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/best[height<=720] -log-file log.txt

the file log.txt will be saved in mpv folder.

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@aeneas01 Check if youtube-dl.exe is working properly. Use the command prompt and download a youtube video. If it succeeds, you can manually add the youtube video to Lively from the "Type" tab from application.

This is what I did since my drag and drop feature also caused the "Failed to catch.." error. Hope this helps.

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@iggySeawolf

yes, that works fine, as does downloading video wallpaper and dragging it to lively, just can't seem to drag vids straight from youtube to lively, no big deal really....

a couple of questions tho:

1. in settings > video > video player it was set to "media foundation", i changed it to mpv but i don't notice any difference, should i?

2. are there recommended settings in the settings tab, beyond the default settings?

3. is lively known to interfere with other applications such as photoshop, or another video player using madvr video processor? i was recently using photoshop and my keyboard went on the fritz, couldn't use it photoshop or in any other application, my mouse began acting unpredictably... i was forced to reboot my system and everything returned to normal, but this was without lively loaded... then again i'm wondering if the issues could have been caused by the recently installed winstep nexus dock or rainmeter? on reboot i disabled all of these (lively, nexus and lively) and haven't had a problem since, haven't had a chance to load each one by one to see if any are causing the keyboard / mouse issues...

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1. https://github.com/rocksdanister/lively/wiki/Video-Guide
2. Default should be good enough.
3. Not likely, if you want you can disable mouse input in Settings Interaction -> Off
   Lively does not require admin rights to run, nor does it modify any system files or other applications. If lively was not running during that time then its safe to assume its not caused by it.

mpv crashes when i drag a youtube vid to it

As this is a youtube-dl/mpv issue I can't recreate on my end and not directly related to lively I'm closing it for now.

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