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 .

Select the enable wallpaper option

 2) Now to remove VLC from your taskbar go to

Settings->preferences->Interface->Main Interfaces->wxWidgets and uncheck the Taskbar option.

Deselect 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

86 Comments

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  2. Yoki says:

    Guys my VLC doesn’t have that option, how’s that

  3. Nuga says:

    hay guys. i followed aall the instructions. but i didn’t found “walpaper” on right clicks. what should be the problem??

  4. hakimi says:

    if you have an older version** do not upgrade**. i upgraded mine last night and now it will not play any movie. it just has the cone.

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  6. thanks for the article, vlc which version you use, because the vlc version 2.0 I do not find the setting

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