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Hello guys! I successfully got video wallpaper to work last night! It turns out to be easy – just VLC with some minor setup:
Here is what I did in VLC:
– on the control: set “loop one” – the second rightmost tool-button
– in preferences (use advanced and search for these options):- Audio Enable audio: off
- Input/Codecs Video codecs FFmpeg: Hardware decoding: on
- Interface Main interfaces qt Systray icon: on
- Interface Main interfaces qt Show notification popup on track change: off
- Interface Main interfaces qt Start VLC with only a systray icon: on
- Video Key press events: off
- Video Mouse events: off
- Video Enable wallpaper mode: on
- Video Output modules Video output module: Direct3D video output
- Video Show media title on video: off
- Video Subtitles/OSD On Screen Display: off
Side-effects:
- desktop icons are hidden though right-click menu is accessible. You need extra apps such as XWidget to add shortcuts on deesktp. Not really convenient if you have dozens of icons on desktop.
- VLC is likely to crash when you play full-screen games.
- VLC has to be restarted manually if you restart explorer.exe.
- VLC uses all montiors for video playback, therefore you would need huge video like 3840×1080 for it to cover the background of dual monitors. It could be done by using Avisynth script, xvid encoder, and VirtualDub to combine video files side-by-side. Simply install all 3 of them (32-bit Avisynth/VirtualDub is easier), and create avs script as the following:
SetWorkingDir("C:PathToYourDreamScenes")
a = DirectShowSource("Highnoon_Falls.xvid.mpg")
b = DirectShowSource("Skyhigh.xvid.mpg")
StackHorizontal(a, b)(the source doesn’t need to be mpeg; they just have to be playable by your WMP, with right codec supported/installed)
then- Open .avs in VirtualDub like a video file (to windows and mplayer, it is indeed a virtual video file that merges multiple sources on-the-fly, but VLC couldn’t play it, hence conversion is required)
- In VirtualDub menu, Video Compression, select XVid MPEG-4 Codec, configure: you could use Xvid HD 720 with maximum quality.
- In VirtualDub menu, File Save as AVI, save the avs as a ordinary AVI file (with xvid encoding) which you could play with VLC
- Done! (I have zero knowledge of avs before this, for advanced use please read their manual)
PS: the DreamScene replacement everyone talk about on youtube is actually “PUSH Entertainment’s Video Wallpaper”. It’s shareware and doesn’t work with multi-monitor (shown only on first monitor)
What you have explained is nice, but is it better than the default option provided in VLC for running videos in wallpaper mode. If yes, how?
the default shows the VLC window during playback, which you have to hide it by clicking on tray icon – every time you play a new DreamScene video. It also disables right-click menu on desktop, and probably interferes with keyboard shortcuts too when you focus on desktop (= VLC)
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