microsoft/Terminal

Feature Request - MP4 backgrounds

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#1,522 opened on Jun 24, 2019

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Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Currently, GIF animated backgrounds are supported. I'm not sure what other formats are - but mp4 would be great. I'm using a ~110MB gif and it uses ~10% CPU - the mp4 would be much smaller.

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Research direction
Examine the existing GIF background implementation in the Terminal codebase and research how to integrate video playback, possibly using Media Foundation or a lightweight library like libmpv.
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