Enable DreamScene Video Wallpaper in Windows XP and non-Ultimate Vista

Windows DreamScene (also Motion Desktop) is a nice extra feature that plays high definition video content or movie as desktop background with animated wallpaper instead of static graphic (video demo). Unfortunately, Microsoft only offers the feature to Windows Vista Ultimate users for free download. But it’s not impossible for Windows Vista Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise and Starter edition users, and for those Windows XP user who do not want to upgrade to Windows Vista to set a video as animated desktop wallpaper. Here is a trick to use an alternative method to create DreamScene wallpaper effect in non-supported Windows.

To set and play a video as wallpaper in Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, Enterprise and Starter edition:

  1. Download and install VLC Player for Windows.
  2. Run VLC Media Player, go to Settings -> Preferences, expand Interface and click on wxWidgets. In the bottom right corner of “wxWidgets interface module” window, click on “Advanced options” to show advanced settings. Then uncheck the Taskbar check box in order to remove VLC Player title from the taskbar while the program is running. Check Systray icon if you want to enable Systray (system tray or notification area) icon instead.
  3. Next, expand Video -> Output Modules and then select Direct X. In bottom right corner of DirectX Video Output window, check the Advanced Options check box in order to see all the settings available.

    VLC Player Preferences

  4. Check and tick the “Enable wallpaper mode” check box.
  5. Then, select Playlist and then check or tick the Repeat current item checkbox.
  6. Press “Save” button when done.
  7. Open and play any video that you would like to set as motion wallpaper in VLC Media Player.
  8. If the video hasn’t yet been set as desktop background, right click on the video and click on “Wallpaper”.
  9. The video or movie will be set as if it’s DreamScene motion desktop background wallpaper.

If you do not configure VLC Player to repeatedly play current media in loop, you can still do so after playing the video. Simply click on View then select Playlist. Highlight the video media content that is playing and click on Repeat One or Repeat All button as shown below to loop the video for non-stop video wallpaper.

Playlist Loop
Looping the animated wallpaper

Note that the video must be encoded in a video format supported by VLC Player such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, FLV (Flash Video) and etc. Else you will need to convert the video clip to the supported format.

Here is a video showing how to set the video to start the “DreamScene” in Windows XP, and the relatively low system resources and memory that been used for the effect.

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  1. Khyrul
    June 22nd, 2009 14:54
    30

    Lamun bde Ngango dream scene dina xp Tengano update na kumahanya …???????
    terusS window vista ngango ram 1gb vista naon nya nu cocok.. Vista dianggo game na enaken teu. . .

  2. Vegito
    December 30th, 2008 04:01
    29

    Why Bother Just Download XPScene Its Free The Easy Way And The Best

  3. bronkko
    November 4th, 2008 02:42
    28

    hey john, you can use xpscene to generate the required code (its really easy to use, no installation required .. and its freeware), here is the link: http://www.dreamscene.org/download.php#xpscene

  4. Johnny
    October 12th, 2008 09:17
    27

    @lovenish, what’s the code ? I can’t see it

  5. lovenish
    September 12th, 2008 18:59
    26

    BUDDY U CAN TRY THIS TRICK FOR BETTER RESULT…

    This has been discussed many times – but mostly people used “extra” apps to do this
    So here’s a bit of code to get u video wallpaper on xp without anything “other” than xp itself biggrin.gif

    CODE

    Instructions:

    1. Copy the above code into notepad

    2. In place of height=”900″ set the value as ur (screen’s height in pixels + 100)
    So if ur screen is 1280X800 resolution as mine , u set height as 900

    3. Set width as ur screen’s width

    4. In place of src=nike.mpg put in a filename like src=bailamos.mpg or any other piece of shit u have . Better way as pointed out by gopackgo is to put in the whole path of the video here , like src=”C:\Documents\nike.mpg”.

    5. Save this file as an html file . And save the video file u wrote in previous step in the same folder as this html

    6. Now right-click on ur desktop , Properties>Desktop>Browse . Now in “Files of type” change “Background files” to “HTML Documents”. Now set the html file u just made as ur desktop.

    And enjoy !! ( u may need to refresh sometimes u know )

    Hope u like wink.gif cool.gif If u have more suggestions for bettering the code plz post. I will update as neccessary !!

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