Video Wallpaper

[elliot]

I have followed all the instructions I can find on the internet 100% I think, but I still cannot set an animated wallpaper as my wallpaper.

I was able to do it at one time, I just right clicked the wallpaper and pressed set as background

I then did a system restore because of a different program and now the option is not there

Please help me with this, I will be very grateful and so will others with the same problem

Cheers

[Arite]

What are you trying to do - use VLC to set a video wallpaper, or are you using Vista and want to use Vista's animated wallpaper feature? If the latter, then wrong forum.

Arite.

[elliot]

I want to use VLC to set a video wallpaper, have dun it before but then, well, as my post says

[Arite]

Well in VLC you can open a video then go to "Video >> DirectX Wallpaper".

Arite.

[elliot]

That is only temporary and only whilst vlc is up, playing the video

[Arite]

Yes. If you want to always have it looped you could add a shortcut to VLC to the "Startup" menu in the Start Menu.

Then right click it, look at the commandline string that is run. For example try:

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"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -I dummy --directx-wallpaper INPUT --repeat

Where INPUT is the file you want to play.

Arite.

[elliot]

Hmmm well i didnt work :S i begining to think now that the option to set as wallpaper when right clicking the video was from the other program Dreamscene with the home premium patch

[Arite]

Well the process you described as right-clicking a wallpaper and clicking "Set as Background" would be a Vista animated wallpaper and not VLC.

The above commandline does work though. If you do a "Start >> Run..." and enter that (putting the location of a file in the place of INPUT) it should work. There are a coulple of VLC windows as well however.

Arite.