macOS Video Wallpapers Restricted to Apple Presets With No Custom Video Support
Apple introduced video wallpapers in macOS but locked them to a small selection of preset videos, providing no way to set custom video files as wallpapers. The restriction is purely software-level with the underlying framework supporting custom videos. Developers have reverse-engineered the framework to enable this feature Apple deliberately disabled.
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