Setting Video As Desktop Wallpaper

Ever wanted to set cool Videos as your computers Desktop Wallpaper, then you came to right place. Today in this post i will teach you how to set videos as your Desktop Wallpaper with a simple nice little trick and small tool or software that mostly every one has installed on their computer or laptop. This trick works on Windows Xp as well as it works on Windows 7. Go through below post to learn this simple trick.

How to set video as desktop Wallpaper?

1. Open VLC Media Player. If you don't have it download it from Here.

2. Then Go to Tools > Preference Or press CTRL + P and Select Video from left panel
3. Then Choose DirectX video output from output dropdown list
as shown in below image .

4. Save the changes ans restart VLC Media Player.
5. Play any video you would like to set as your desktop wallpaper.
6. Then click on Video and select DirectX Wallpaper from the dropdown list as show in below image.

7. Now Minimize vlc player and you will see your video running on your desktop aswallpaper.
8. If you want your default wallpaper back then uncheck DirectX Wallpaper from video dropdown list.9. Hope you like this simple trick share your thought about this trick in comment section.

Enjoy!!

14 comments

Rudedude mod

8 May 2014 at 01:05

Cant access in win 8

Tejashwa mod

8 May 2014 at 03:12

yes, i tried it on Windows8 ..it doesn't works Maybe there would be some graphic issue

Unknown mod

8 May 2014 at 05:50

Seriously? I was so happy that I am finally able to set gif video as wallpaper.. Thanks!

SHEFEEQUE mod

8 May 2014 at 07:11

When you close your vlc player wallpaper is blank

14 May 2014 at 22:06

its not working

Unsold Videos mod

22 May 2014 at 00:39

worked for me.......thanks. but dont refresh on desktop

Anonymous mod

24 May 2014 at 01:05

how 2 switch it off ?

24 May 2014 at 02:21

please mention that what we need to work this on win 8....or is there sum graphic issue

24 May 2014 at 02:25

Igot blank when i closed the vlc..

24 May 2014 at 20:02

thx mate, i've been looking for a long time for such a solution. but i want to run such a command within windows preferenses.
i've never thought about looking it up in vlc-player preferenses.