dsh-video-skin: Video Backdrop and Boot Animation for DeepSeek Harness

What Does It Do?

DSH Video Skin is a DSH plugin for DeepSeek Harness that turns short video clips into the chat backdrop and boot animation of the Web UI. It solves the problem of a flat, plain interface without sacrificing text readability: one clip loops silently behind the whole UI while the app's surface tokens are made translucent, so the picture stays clearly visible and the text stays legible. It is maintained by Something11235 under the MIT license, has zero dependencies, and was last updated on 2026-10-02.

Core Features

• Video chat backdrop: one clip loops silently behind the entire interface with cover fitting, without interfering with the conversation.
• Boot animation with sound: a full-window clip plays at startup with audio, a progress bar driven by the kernel's real activation progress, then fades into the app.
• Click to skip: a permanent skip pill sits over the boot animation, and a separate sound button means skipping and enabling audio never collide.
• In-UI transparency control: a translucent pill in the bottom-right opens two sliders, three presets, and a live body-text contrast readout; changes apply on refresh with no DSH restart.
• Separate light and dark tuning: surface and veil values are configured per theme so dark text does not fall below readable contrast in light mode.
• Zero dependencies: the host half uses only Node builtins and the browser half is one inline script, so the artifact contains no imports and needs no build step.

How to Use This Plugin?

After enabling it in DSH, a small translucent pill appears in the bottom-right corner; open it to reach the transparency sliders and balance picture strength against text readability, then refresh the page to apply the change, which persists without a restart. When DSH starts, the boot animation plays with sound first; click anywhere on the picture to skip straight into the app. If the runtime blocks unmuted autoplay, playback falls back to muted and a separate sound button appears in the bottom-left, so you can turn audio on without skipping. For a silent boot, disable the sound option in the boot configuration.

How to Troubleshoot This Plugin?

If nothing changes after installing, the desktop build collects its index snapshot once at host startup, so fully quit and relaunch DSH rather than just refreshing the page. If the boot animation reads as a hard cut instead of a fade, the app became ready late and compressed the fade duration; switch the exit mode back to the tail crossfade with a fixed fade length. If text looks washed out in light theme, the surface value is too thin, so raise the light-theme surface value as described in the official instructions.