I don’t have a screen recorder installed right now but here is a still shot of a video I took this morning.
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So you got xwinwrap-git installed and it now works for you?
Which DM & DE are you using?
Re simplicity: That was my original intention. I might want to play a video in the background once in a while (or to show-off, of course), so I thought there should be something simple to switch it on & off. Without the overhead of a full-blown GUI solution.
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that is on Openbox.
v0.5 adds opacity for subtle overlayed video effects 
$ bgv --help
Usage: bgv [OPTIONS] [VIDEO]
bgv sets a background video for the X11 desktop.
Uses xwinwrap (yay -S xwinwrap-git) and mpv.
Options:
-h, --help Show this help.
-o, --opacity Opacity of background video, default=1.0 [0.0..1.0]
-V, --version Show version number of this script.
-v, --volume Volume of background video, default=0 [-1..100]
Video:
(none) Stop bgv, revert to previous desktop background.
/path/to/file Set local video file as background.
URL Set video at URL as background; requires Internet.
You can use YouTube URLs.
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