Thread: Set a Video as Desktop Background

Do you want to set a Video as your desktop background instead of wallpaper ?

It's very simple to impress your buddies by doing so. If you want set a video background, just follow this simple steps:

1. First of all you need a VLC player installed in your OS to perform this task. If not than download the VLC player from internet and install it.

2. Run VLC media player,go to Settings-> Preferences ->Interface ->Main interfaces, then click on wxWidgets. Remove the tick on "Taskbar" and put a tick on "Systray icon".



3. Now go to Video-> Output Modules-> DirectX. On the bottom right put a tick on advanced options check box. You will now see some options. Put a tick on "Enable Wallpaper Mode."

4. Now, select playlist and put a check or tick on "Repeat current item."

5. Press the Save button. Now close the VLC player and run it again (to save the settings permanently.)

6. Now play any video you would like to set as Wallpaper. Right click on the video and click on "Wallpaper". The video would be set as your wallpaper!

- All credit goes to trees @ CC

Just be aware that this does take the same amount of system resources as playing the video in any other way would.

If your computer never has any trouble keeping up with your multitasking, go for it, but for me personally, I do too much to let idle sys resources go towards a background (especially considering I never see my desktop)

Originally Posted by Jschro14

Just be aware that this does take the same amount of system resources as playing the video in any other way would.

If your computer never has any trouble keeping up with your multitasking, go for it, but for me personally, I do too much to let idle sys resources go towards a background (especially considering I never see my desktop)

Yeah, same with me, too. I'm always doing something, so it would be no use to me.

Very interesting and easy to understand tut thank you very much for this.

Intresting tutorial..... thank u mate

This is an rather cool tutorial,
I'm gonna try it out for sure..


I hope it does not hog up to much memory / ram though..

ah yes I did this myself several months ago. Thought it was pretty cool for like the first 5 minutes then moved on.....

For people with less than 8GB of RAM, I wouldn't even recommend attempting this.

Very interesting. Definitely will try this later at least to impress people.