Question How to get the animation clip in Microsoft Edge under Windows 10?

[modeonoff]

Hello, when I opened Microsoft Edge, an animation showed up as the background. Can I download that animation clip and perhaps apply it as the wallpaper?

 

[rgd1101]

I don't have background.

 

[modeonoff]

I set the Background to "Image or video of the day" under Custom as described in:

How to Hide the Article Feed on Microsoft Edge’s New Tab Page (howtogeek.com)

I guess I want to know if we can download the "video of the day" and if it can, how to do it.

 

[Colif]

its originally called Bing "Video of the day"

So little out there on it
https://techdows.com/2022/01/microsoft-edge-video-of-the-day.html

if its anything like the images, there is a folder with them in it but it might not be in a normal format.

 

[Colif]

its possible they are in:

The Edge cached files stored in the following directory: \Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.

Microsoft Edge Temporary File Locations - Fabozzi's Compiled Knowledge

The Edge settings are stored in the following ESE databse: The Edge cached files stored in the following directory: IE 11 History is stored here as well: Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/windows-10-microsoft-edge-browser-forensics-brent-muir

www.fabozzi.net

but no guarantees (link is 3 years old, might relate to old Edge)

if it changes once a day I guess there is no need for it to save them, unlike pictures used on Lock screen.

 

[modeonoff]

its possible they are in:

The Edge cached files stored in the following directory: \Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.

Microsoft Edge Temporary File Locations - Fabozzi's Compiled Knowledge

The Edge settings are stored in the following ESE databse: The Edge cached files stored in the following directory: IE 11 History is stored here as well: Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/windows-10-microsoft-edge-browser-forensics-brent-muir

www.fabozzi.net

but no guarantees (link is 3 years old, might relate to old Edge)

if it changes once a day I guess there is no need for it to save them, unlike pictures used on Lock screen.

Thank you. I cannot find that directory. Probably they changed it.

 

[Colif]

folder still exists, you need to have explorer showing hidden items
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hidden-files-0320fe58-0117-fd59-6851-9b7f9840fdb2

but that just opens up another question, as there are 123 items in that folder and many are folders themselves
All folders are labelled as Microsoft , ie they are called Microsoft.BingNews as an example
i can see bing news & bing weather but as I don't have that background running, I don't know if it would have one for backgrounds.
None of the ones labelled MicrosoftEdge appear to be related

from what I can tell, its only a new feature so more info about it will come out as time passes.

 

[ashlycary]

Right click the video and click inspect. Find the section that says
<video class="video" loop="" muted="" src="https://prod-streaming-video-msn-co...3cf1/62b4c40f-ad3c-4099-a59a-bfbe324a461c.mp4" style=""></video>
Copy the videos address starting with https:// until .mp4 and then paste that into a new web page. Right click the video and save it.