Video wallpaper on any version of Vista or XP with VLC Player
A lot of people are switching to Vista for it’s great features. One of the great features is DreamScene which allows you to play high-definition video as your desktop wallpaper. I am stuck with XP for the time being and won’t be switching to Vista anytime soon. So I began looking around on the internet for an alternative to using videos as wallpaper. I found a quick tutorial on Digg on how to do just that. The best part about this little trick is that it will work on Windows XP, Windows Vista Home, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business Edition and maybe even a few other operating systems. Now I could link to the article and probably should, but that would just cause you to have to reload your browser and it’s really quite simple. So what I am going to do is try to illustrate the basic concept of this trick and also link to the article because there is a more in depth explaination of how to get this up and running. I have mentioned VLC Player in the past and many of it’s great features, but if you haven’t already downloaded your free copy the url is http://www.videolan.org/vlc/. Now to do this all you need to do is install VLC Player, open a video file, and right click and check “wallpaper” and thats it. You now have a beautiful animated background using video from your most recent vacation trip, or maybe your favorite movie. It’s that simple.
Bonus Tip:
More than likely you will not want your video to play just once when you are using it for this purpose. So you will need to tell VLC to loop the video in the playlist interface found under navigation in the toolbar menu. Also you may wish to disable the sound so it doesn’t drive you crazy after playing 99 times over and over. To do this goto audio and select disable. Thats it, you now have the great feature of DreameScene on your non-DreamScene compatible operating system.
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