Set a Video as your Desktop background Wallpaper
Wanna impress your buddies? Well, I personally don't find running videos in the background as a wallpaper of any good use. Anyway its rather 'cool' stuff.
There are some good options available to do exactly this. Lets check them out.
VLC media player
VLC media player is a highly portable cross platform media player that plays almost any type of media format including DVDs, VCDs etc.
And its extremely easy to set a video as wallpaper using VLC media player.
Play the video in VLC player. Right click on VLC player and select Wallpaper.
That's it! The video will now play in your desktop background as a wallpaper.
VLC is available for Windows, Mac OS X and various other distributions of Linux.
Download VLC media player from this page
Windows DreamScene
Microsoft has released Windows DreamScene which, offcourse, enables you to set a video file as your wallpaper.
As far as I know, Windows DreamScene is a Vista feature and hence available for Windows Vista only. Windows Vista Ultimate users can download it for free.
My Digital Life has more information of this Windows feature.
Obviously, VLC media player is a much better choice as it can handle a wide range of video formats, plus you don't have to get Windows Vista to use this nice feature.
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There are some good options available to do exactly this. Lets check them out.
VLC media player
VLC media player is a highly portable cross platform media player that plays almost any type of media format including DVDs, VCDs etc.
And its extremely easy to set a video as wallpaper using VLC media player.
Play the video in VLC player. Right click on VLC player and select Wallpaper.
That's it! The video will now play in your desktop background as a wallpaper.
VLC is available for Windows, Mac OS X and various other distributions of Linux.
Download VLC media player from this page
Windows DreamScene
Microsoft has released Windows DreamScene which, offcourse, enables you to set a video file as your wallpaper.
As far as I know, Windows DreamScene is a Vista feature and hence available for Windows Vista only. Windows Vista Ultimate users can download it for free.
My Digital Life has more information of this Windows feature.
Obviously, VLC media player is a much better choice as it can handle a wide range of video formats, plus you don't have to get Windows Vista to use this nice feature.
Do you use any other tools for this? Feel free to share your views..and Leave a Comment...
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Join Multiple Video (mpg) files into one
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11 Comments:
VLC option is kewl but the effect is gone when refreshed...
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sorry but it doesn't work, my version of vlc is 0.8.6c, when i make a right-click (on the video window) i don't have the option "wallpaper"... where is it ??? or what's the version of vlc used to do that ??
@Anon - I had tried it with VLC 0.8.2
You need to open vlc go to Preferences/video/ouput modules
check the advanced options box in the lower right corner so you can change things. Change your video output to DirectX. Then under ouput modules on the menu click directx and check enable wallpaper mode. Save the changes and you should be able to get the desktop wallpaper.
check the advanced options box in the lower right corner so you can change things. Change your video output to DirectX. Then under ouput modules on the menu click directx and check enable wallpaper mode. Save the changes and you should be able to get the desktop wallpaper.
just click video then wallpaper
does any one know how to make it a endless loop
Have a look here:
http://www.whoismadhur.com/2007/04/05/have-a-video-wallpaper-as-desktop-background/
http://www.whoismadhur.com/2007/04/05/have-a-video-wallpaper-as-desktop-background/
great explanation
i have set enable wallpaper in directx but it is grayed out and i cant select it wats wrong?
can u put a screenshot of the same?