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Video Backgrounds for XP

Do you hate vista, but love the fact that you can get video backgrounds on it? Do you have an xp? Here is an Instructable that you can use to get a great quality video background of anything on the web or even your own videos for FREE.

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Step 1Grab the vlc media player, this is the player that you will use to play your background.

Go to this site http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html and download the vlc media player and install it...then proceed to step 2.

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39 comments

Feb 9, 2009. 10:21 AM

rocketman221 says:

is this a resource hog?

Jun 12, 2009. 1:10 AMcornflaker says:

Yep

Jun 9, 2009. 4:49 AMjhonsilver5 says:

i cando that in 1 click in windows 2000... is window xp really that bad???

Jul 23, 2008. 5:32 PMpunkatsub says:

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Oct 9, 2008. 3:03 PMsanty22 says:

moist and delicious......pie?

Oct 10, 2008. 1:42 AMpunkatsub says:

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Oct 10, 2008. 3:59 PMsanty22 says:

great

Oct 12, 2008. 2:22 AMpunkatsub says:

it is

Feb 19, 2009. 4:50 PMFoaly7 says:

Hear, Hear!

Feb 19, 2009. 9:10 PMpunkatsub says:

what?

Feb 20, 2009. 1:28 PMFoaly7 says:

It means I Agree.

Feb 20, 2009. 5:37 PMpunkatsub says:

it would be aye, wouldn't?

Apr 3, 2009. 7:15 PMFoaly7 says:

Actually we is both right.

Feb 21, 2009. 2:41 AMawang8 says:

I also like pie!

Feb 21, 2009. 3:11 AMpunkatsub says:

the pie is loved

Jul 17, 2009. 1:14 PMupdown789 says:

I am Pie!

Mar 15, 2009. 10:24 AMlolcat360 says:

Yum... pie

May 9, 2009. 6:20 PMXamith says:

I would love some pumpkin pie right now

Jul 17, 2009. 7:05 PMpunkatsub says:

Apple pie is better

Jul 18, 2009. 5:44 PMlolcat360 says:

PUNKIN PIE IS TEH BESTEST!!

Jul 18, 2009. 7:08 PMXamith says:

agreed

Jul 18, 2009. 7:05 PMpunkatsub says:

Don't start trolling about pie.

Jul 19, 2009. 2:55 PMXamith says:

Pi is pretty cool too... 3.141592653579323846...

Jul 19, 2009. 4:54 PMlolcat360 says:

WHO INVETED PI ITS JUST A RANDOM NUMBER!!!

Jul 20, 2009. 1:17 PMXamith says:

no one really invented pi, it just is the diameter in realation to the circumerfrence of a circle or something like that.

Jul 20, 2009. 2:21 PMlolcat360 says:

Yeah... thats what my dad said.

Jul 22, 2009. 8:37 AMXamith says:

lol

Jul 22, 2009. 11:16 PMawang8 says:

PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE! PIE!

Jul 17, 2008. 4:09 PMjackdaun says:

i never new you could do this on vista, how do u?

May 27, 2008. 11:56 AMGreen Grasshopper says:

It's very nice but is their a way to make the movie loop so you don't have to press play all the time?

May 27, 2008. 2:04 PMGuppy8 (author) says:

yes, right click the video and check loop.

Mar 22, 2008. 4:45 PMGorillazMiko says:

Cool! I would like to try this out. Nice job!

Mar 22, 2008. 7:21 AMcamb00 says:

we go the same name lol :P

Mar 21, 2008. 9:27 PMJunooni says:

somehow not working for me :(

Mar 22, 2008. 6:30 AMGuppy8 (author) says:

Okay, try to play a video and then right click the play area and make sure that wallpaper is checked.

Mar 21, 2008. 8:33 AMGitarGr8 says:

Very cool instructable! I love VLC and had no idea you could do this. Just a small critique, your screen shots are kinda hard to see. You might want to check out ScreenHunter, which allows you to get screenshots of full screens, active windows, or you can just drag a rectangle of what you want a picture of.

Mar 21, 2008. 12:50 PMGuppy8 (author) says:

Yeah, I noticed that my screenshots were kind of bad, thanks for the tip.

Mar 21, 2008. 9:45 AMdbarak says:

You can also use animated GIFs as wallpaper. Since my name is Dave, I created a HAL camera eye and put animated type that spelled out "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." An appropriate message for a machine running Windows...

Mar 21, 2008. 8:22 AMgamer says:

i was showing my mo this yesterday:P nice instructable! -gamer