I’m taking a little break from blogging, well Web 2.0 blogging anyway, but I’ve found a useful feature in VLC media player: to play a video on your desktop’s wallpaper. This allows you to watch a movie behind your desktop’s icons and, if you use them, widgets.
The last time I saw a moving wallpaper, being generated from a media player, was the Milkdrop visualisations for Winamp. This was pretty amazing, but nowhere near as amazing as watching a movie on the desktop!
This may not be very productive, but is pretty interesting and fun to see.
In order to watch a video, in VLC, on the desktop; you simply right click on the video in VLC (while playing) and press Wallpaper. There you are!
wow – that’s pretty crazy! on your desktop? weird!!
That is a great tip! I have been using VLC for about 6 months now and never even knew. And productivity is definitely an issue, turn a dvd on and a common task takes you 4 times as long..
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Tip: open this page again once you’ve set up your video wallpaper.
Or just running VLC.
I cant see that option? i know this works couse ive used this before, but now i just cant see the option “wallpaper” on the rightclick menu :S
ive tried everything…. any ideas?
i also dont see the wallpaper option