Comments on: Have a Video Wallpaper as Desktop Background

By: CurtJ

CurtJ — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:55:48 +0000

I have found this will work even with a live webcam video feed too. I can watch myself watching myself watching myself

By: RichardJ

RichardJ — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:07:07 +0000

A lot of people on this and other forums have had no success in using VLC to play a video in Wallpaper mode under Vista Home Premium. The cause of a lot of this frustration is that the instructions usually do NOT specify which version of VLC is referenced. I downloaded the latest version 1.0.3, set all the parameters and advanced setting to activate DirectX Wallpaper, but no success. SO, here is a solution that
works for me: Download the older version 0.8.6d and just install it. Open a video file and right click on it. You will NOT see the wallpaper
option. Don’t bother hunting under Preferences>Advanced Options; you won’t find anything about wallpaper or DirectX. Instead, close VLC.
Then, go to the Search function in the lower lefthand corner just above the Windows Icon. Type DirectX. Four VLC icons will appear. Select the one that says “Set Video Mode To DirectX (no video overlay)”. Now fire up VLC again, open a video and right-click on it. Now the Wallpaper option appears! Click it, minimize VLC, and the video is playing as your Desktop background. Do not expect this to keep playing when you close VLC; after all, VLC is playing it. Hope this helps. I don’t know whether this method also works for the
new 1.0.3 version.

By: Bairboy

Bairboy — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:31:20 +0000

i dont have the time at the moment to read through all of these, but is there a way i caould take a viseo, and set it as my wallpaper with the windows 7 professional OS?

By: SatouSei

SatouSei — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:29:47 +0000

I tried the steps (could not find the widget part in my VLC 0.9.9) and it worked! When I right click the wallpaper option is no longer greyed out, I can click it, and it works! Thanks!

By: ......

...... — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:34:37 +0000

So….. do i have to have VLC up to run it. Cause it looks like i have to…

By: fighta

fighta — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:20:45 +0000

I ave followed the steps about setting the wallpaper thing and its not selectable still, wat do i do or wat is the problem, its a dell inspirion am using, plz help me any1

By: Eddie117

Eddie117 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:41:20 +0000

Cant seem to get wxwidgets to appear under Settings->preferences->interface->main interface…..any solutions

By: Need Help!

Need Help! — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:59:49 +0000

I tried this, but once the video was done, the screen went to an image as a background. How can I continuously loop the video?