Have a Video Wallpaper as Desktop Background
Windows Vista will have a feature called Dreamscene which will allow us to have a video as a desktop background . Dreamscene will only be available to the people using Windows Vista Ultimate but for people using Windows XP , there is also a way . And that is VLC player . VLC player has a built in feature that can allow you to have any video as a wallpaper . All you have to do is the following things
1) Open VLC and check whether Wallpaper mode is enabled
Goto Settings->preferences->video->output modules->Directx
Just select the advacned option box and you will get the following window as shown below , enable the wallpaper mode , now when you run your videos and right click on it , you will see a wallpaper option .
2) Now to remove VLC from your taskbar go to
Settings->preferences->Interface->Main Interfaces->wxWidgets and uncheck the Taskbar option.
3)Now all we have to do is loop your videos , go to
Settings->preferences->playlists and you will see the required option .
This will work on most of the versions but i recommend you to use the latest version of VLC . I tried it on Windows Vista Ultimate but i got a black screen as a wallpaper which was probably due to some issues with Aero , so if anyone gets it to work in Vista , do comment about it .
via VistaRewired
I’ve tried that before. But even without the steps, I could see the video as my wallpaper.
The settings are reqd when Wallpaper mode is not enabled.
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Madhur, thanks for this information. I know this feature in Visat, but didn’t know the tweak for XP.
Gili
Great info, will try that soon!
i will try it out…
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thanks
srikanth
This one is really cool.Video Wallper…who gave this idea…awesome
I think VLC player had this feature long before Vista introduced it. VLC is also a cool player to have..even better that Mplayer in many aspects.
Yeah VLC had this feature all along . Wish i could have known about it .
@Sahil , Srikanth
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