Video as a wallpaper?

Any ideas? It's an MPEG, 2MB file.

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 by wbj007 | Discussion: Windows XP

I have a 2-3MB MPEG file that I want to stretch to the screen and make it loop. I was thinking maybe I could just make an HTML file that houses this file and it only. Anyone have any other ideas? I also thought about breaking down the frames of it into a GIF, of course not nearly all of the frames. there are probably about 100 of them. Maybe half. Let me know if you all have any ideas about how to do any of my ideas or if you have any of your own, I'm open to input. Thanks everybody.
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craeonics
Reply #1 Tuesday, January 18, 2005 3:17 PM
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong, but if your MPEG playback is hardware accelerated, it gets drawn on top of all other content. Or doesn't it?

craeonics relaises he's never moved a window on top of a playing movie to see what happens

wbj007
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:00 PM
It isn't hardware accelerated...it's just a 64MB card in my ThinkPad.

CygnusXII
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:28 PM
I know that ATI All in Wonder Cards (the ones with TV and Capture Abilities) had a setting called Video Desktop, which was cool as Hell,and similar to what He is asking about. It made the Video act as a wallpaper, and you could watch TV and Media Files on the Desktop. I don't know how it was able to do that. I think it harnessed the "Overlay" features of the Video Drivers.


Here's a little blurb off, ATIs' webpage.


If another application is already running which makes use of overlay then the overlay feature of the graphics card will not be available for use by the ATI Video Player.

Common types of applications which may use or prevent access to overlay are:

* Video conferencing software
* DVD playback software (such as the ATI DVD Player)
* Video editing software

Please close the application using overlay and then re-launch the ATI Video Player. In some instances Windows may need to be re-started prior to attempting to re-launch the ATI Video Player in order to ensure that the overlay becomes available for use. http://tinyurl.com/6bt29

Bulletcatcher
Reply #4 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 6:36 PM
i dont know much about it all, but i set a 3.5mb gif as a wallpaper as an experiment and it made my compy go really sloow so you probably wont want to change it into a .gif

godsflesh
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 19, 2005 7:53 PM
there is a program called 3d animated wallpaper that works wonders.It does play mpeg and avi and also has other neat features like 3d wallpapers and screensavers as wallpaper and it dosent bug down my pc. i have an 8 meg avi file and it plays fine.i believe the site is http://www.3danimatedwallpaper.com hope it helps

Tarkus
Reply #6 Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:36 AM
Doesn't the DivX Player offer that option? It's been awhile since I used it, so maybe I'm confusing it with another program.

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HG_Eliminator
Reply #7 Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:08 PM
i know the NvidiaDVD player allows you to run your movies as a active desktop..works great as a animated wallpaper

ed0
Reply #8 Sunday, January 23, 2005 9:54 PM
alot of movie and game sites use an animated wallpaper you prob can find some omfp at www.xtremedesktops.com it has some simialr usage that i can compare to waht u might be attempting ;x

tjesterb
Reply #9 Saturday, January 29, 2005 12:16 PM
I just read this: http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=7&MessageID=146150
I remembered this thread. Maybe this will help with what you wnated to do.

PurrBall
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:57 PM
turn on Active desktop, and make a new HTML file and insert the video into it and put the HTML file on the desktop

Septimus
Reply #11 Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:20 PM
VideoLAN.org

The VLC player supports video as a wallpaper.

External
Reply #12 Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:18 AM
You can do that with Exterpassive Video Wallpaper. Software is free, video content you have yours.
Link

Akoloutheo
Reply #13 Friday, March 18, 2005 12:03 AM
I followed tjesterb's link (down the yellow brick road) and set up the full screen video wall paper. The Script needed a few extra quotations to match the one above to make it work but I got there! Next I edited a thirty second beach clip with the waves gentle rolling to the shore and rendered it into a one and a half hour 700mb clip. I did this is such a way that you can't notice the join and the sound matches up as well. Then I ran it. So now my wife has a nice tropical beach with the gentle sound of waves each time she turns on her compuer, it starts automatically. When it stops it is just the picture of the beach and she can always restart it. Its great.

Thanks tjesterb

My next plan is to get a video clip that welcomes you to the desktop. I'm not sure about this one as I may want to have it animated. A robot or something like that. Any one have any ideas?

Thanks again.

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