Animated Wallpaper?
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Mikey5449
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 21:21    Post subject: Animated Wallpaper?
Hey guys. A friend of mine recently described what sounds like an animated wallpaper. He said that the background was of the ocean, but it was "moving".

Have any of you heard or seen anything about this? He said he googled it but only came back with malware annoyances. Any ideas or anyone know what he might be talking about?
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 21:26    Post subject:
Oh yeah I know this, its called LSD. Its amazing


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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 21:31    Post subject:
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 21:32    Post subject:
fraich3 wrote:
Oh yeah I know this, its called LSD. Its amazing




@Mikey

There's a function of WinV (and if you copy over - and register - the .DLL, <3 Leo) you can have it on Win7 too; it's called Dreamscene. It basically lets you play a WMV as a desktop wallpaper (you can also sometimes play .AVI if you change the extension to WMV)

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-7-dreamscene-activator-released
http://dreamscene.org/gallery.php?Cmd=Show&site=nature_scenes
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Mikey5449
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 22:52    Post subject:
Ah cool. Thanks Sabin! I'll pass that along.

@Nalo: It wasn't a screen saver but I appreciate your input nonetheless!
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LeoNatan
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 23:12    Post subject:
If I remember correctly, MPEG2 videos work best as wallpapers, because they are the easiest to decode out of the supported formats. But still not really worth the performance, memory and disk read footprint.
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 23:43    Post subject:
Wasn't this a windows 7 feature ? I think it was in one of the betas
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 23:47    Post subject:
Nope, it was a Vista Ultimate exclusive, which got canned after Vista.
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Mikey5449
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PostPosted: Fri, 9th Mar 2012 23:50    Post subject:
iNatan wrote:
If I remember correctly, MPEG2 videos work best as wallpapers, because they are the easiest to decode out of the supported formats. But still not really worth the performance, memory and disk read footprint.

I'll pass this info along as well, just as a heads-up. I don't plan on using it, but my friend is considering it for sure.
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