Got it. It's a pity that no one is interested. On my Ryzen 9 6900HX for this video in Windows 11 with Autowall 1.13 (MPV): - 216 MB of RAM, 13 MB VRAM, 18% GPU and 0% CPU - with default settings - 179 MB of RAM, 13 MB VRAM, 10% GPU and 0% CPU - with Glow settings Probably, the video can be converted into H265 and the requirements will be less. It's interesting how much Rainmeter will consume with the WebView, GIF or frames. I was ready to spend time for testing, but don't know how to write Rainmeter skins for this experiment.
We are definitely not interested in writing your own code, but we can help with examples and advice, if you need them. The performance should be that of a typical video player, since the video is played by WebView in a MS Edge browser environment. That being said, the video encoding does indeed matter, at least for stuff like frame seeking and such, not sure if for simply playing. The code is just about a couple of lines, in both the skin and the webpage. For example, assuming you are in one of these cases: - already have the Microsoft Edge WebView preinstalled on your Windows OS - downloaded the Microsoft Edge WebView Evergreen Standalone Installer and installed it - installed the WebView plugin for Rainmeter and clicked on OK to download & install MS Edge WebView and have WebView working on your system, you can try this little test skin:
[Variables]Side=0Size=416Span=1.00Rate=0.05[Rainmeter]Update=-1AccurateText=1DynamicWindowSize=1OnRefreshAction=[!SetWindowPosition "49.90%" "48.85%" "50.00%" "50.00%"][Metadata]Name=Blue MarbleInformation=Blue MarbleVersion=1.0.0Author=YincognitoLicense=Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0---Measures---[Blue Marble]Measure=PluginPlugin=WebViewX=(#Side#*#Span#)Y=(#Side#*#Span#)W=(#WORKAREAHEIGHT#-#Side#*#Span#)H=(#WORKAREAHEIGHT#-#Side#*#Span#)URL=file:///#@#Blue Marble.htmlDynamicVariables=1---Meters---[Background]Meter=ShapeShape=Rectangle ((#Side#/2)*#Span#),((#Side#/2)*#Span#),((#Size#+#Side#)*#Span#),((#Size#+#Side#)*#Span#) | Fill Color 0,0,0,1 | StrokeWidth (#Side#*#Span#) | Stroke Color 255,0,0,255DynamicVariables=1
The <script> tag in the HTML of the webpage above already has my method of replicating skin-like behavior in order to drag the skin or right click for its context menu, but because the plugin hasn't been updated since 2021 and there were some changes in both Rainmeter and WebView since then, you'll need to apply this workaround for my method to work. Then, you'll have something like this rotating on your screen:
BlueMarble.jpg
which is basically just that .webm video (an .mp4 equivalent is included and works too, if the video tag's src attribute is modified accordingly) playing inside of a webpage which is itself inside of a Rainmeter skin.