Video Wallpaper on Startup

[Luton]

Hi, I`m running Windows 7 64bit & VLC media player 2.0.1
i want to have Windows play VLC on startup in wallpaper mode, I have nearly figured it out to make a .bat file but am not a coder, below is what i have put so far from studying the videolan wiki commands page.

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@ECHO OFF :A CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC" START /wait /min vlc.exe --directx-hw-yuv --video-wallpaper --qt-start-minimized --no-qt-notification --no-qt-name-in-title --no-video-title-show --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8 --no-osd --loop "file:///C:/video_wallpaper/Wallpaper.mp4" GOTO A:

It works with bugs but i`m a noob.
1. CMD.exe wont close after launch
2. despite specifying it to load up as minimized, the video qt interface insists on filling up 3/4 of the screen meaning that i have to minimize it manually on startup which defeats the point.
i am not a coder, so its a bit sloppy please be helpful and ammend my pasted code correctly to get it to play. Thxs

Probably the coolest feature of VLC

[Gruko]

Don't use the "wait" option and the GOTO command:

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@ECHO OFF CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC" START /min vlc.exe --directx-hw-yuv --video-wallpaper --qt-start-minimized --no-qt-notification --no-qt-name-in-title --no-video-title-show --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8 --no-osd --loop "file:///C:/video_wallpaper/Wallpaper.mp4"

[Luton]

Ah thxs Gruko alot cleaner now & the cmd has gone. Much appreciated,
I still have an issue with --qt-start-minimized
for some reason when i run the code it maxmizes the VLC window, and does not auto run minimized even though ive stated --qt-start-minimized.
Ive looked at the videolan wiki, this seems to be the right option but dosnt want to stick. I`m thinking its a side effect of wallpaper mode. is there a command work around?
appreciate any suggestions. I`m using VLC 2.0.1

[VLC_help]

If you don't need the controls, you can just use dummy interface. -I dummy

[Luton]

Thank you VLC help, the -I dummy command worked a treat!.

i`d like to share a HD youtube vid i found which makes great wallpaper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga40sEPI ... ature=plcp You would need a free firefox plug in or other method to save the clip to computer, then i ran through video editor keeping the resolution 1080p and reduced the time (as it will be looped) and finally edited out the sound, though i think theres a command in VLC; perhaps --no sound

OK so if i waned to add another line to the code so i could add another clip to play after the 1st clip what would it look like please,

currently it looks like this

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@ECHO OFF CD "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC" START /min vlc.exe --directx-hw-yuv --video-wallpaper --qt-start-minimized -I dummy --no-qt-notification --no-qt-name-in-title --no-video-title-show --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8 --no-osd --loop "file:///C:/video_wallpaper/wallpaper1.mp4"

i gather i would have to remove --loop from the line and use a goto commands and wait.
i.e to add wallpaper1.mp4 and wallpaper2.mp4 + if i wanted to add a 3rd clip etc. to play all and repeat.
I appreciate any assistance, wallpaper mode is awesome

[Luton]

Hi ok i`ve made some progression and discovery, check it out,

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@ECHO OFF CD "C:\video_wallpaper" START /min wallpapers.xspf --directx-hw-yuv --video-wallpaper --qt-start-minimized -I dummy --no-qt-notification --no-qt-name-in-title --no-video-title-show --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8 --no-osd

the playlist feature is very cool as i can play many vid clips with repeat built into the wallpapers.xspf file

The remaining bug once again is that VLC refuses to start minimized even tho ive specified --qt-start-minimized -I dummy
Thxs

[I34z1k]

Bump here!

Thought I'd be able to just copy/paste this into a bat file and make it work, obviously changing the file locations etc, but no luck. It only opens the playlist in VLC and cmd closes without it going into wallpaper mode etc. Any suggestions?

EDIT
Ok excuse my laziness. Did some reading and research and have ended up using a shortcut that looks like this

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C:\Wallpaper\vlc\vlc.exe --video-wallpaper --qt-start-minimized --no-qt-notification --no-qt-name-in-title --no-video-title-show --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8 --no-osd "File:///C:/Wallpaper/vids" --noaudio --random --loop

Seems to be working!

[nikhar]

I have finally got this working! I have about twenty vids I'd like to cycle through and I'd like to have them start as automatically as possible at startup. I, too, found that putting a shortcut in the startup folder with command parameters was working better than a bat file. So far, so good, using the info in the most recent post before mine.

** HOWEVER **

Though I have all the parameters set exactly as the above poster did (including loop), my videos do not loop. VLC goes through all the videos and after it's done randomly cycling through them, it stops and leaves me with a black desktop.

Anybody got any ideas?

<edit> I may have found the problem, it seems that --random and --loop are incompatible commands, according to the documentation:
--random plays files randomly forever
--loop loops playlist on end
Therefore I am going to try it out without the --loop parameter, just --random, and then without the --random parameter, just the --loop. One of them might work, right? Since I have ~20 1 minute videos I guess I can find out in about 40 minutes. </edit>