Minifig Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 I'm looking for a program sort of like the animated desktop program for Vista, for XP.. Does anyone know of a way how I could go about doing this, without running Desktop X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[deXter] Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 ► You can try Drempels for a random, psychdelic animated dekstop. ► If you want to put your own video as a wallpaper, download VLC player and open your video. Right click on the video and click on "Wallpaper". (If it's not working, check "Enable Wallpaper Mode" under Settings -> Preferences -> Video -> Output Modules -> Direct X) • To loop the video, goto Settings -> Preferences -> Playlist -> Repeat All • To remove VLC from the taskbar, goto Settings -> Preferences -> Interface -> Main Interface -> wxWidgets and uncheck Taskbar. I also recommend enabling the Systray icon if you still want to be able to access VLC. ► The only problem with the above (all all other similar programs) is that it messes up alpha-blends and shadows. This is a limitation of XP, and just one of the reasons why Aero is considered a superior interface. ► A couple of cool videos I found here at Neowin (Made by Microsoft): Bliss: Aurora: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Dreamrender Probably not as advanced as you want, but animated all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 DreamrenderProbably not as advanced as you want, but animated all the same. Looks pretty nice, but it's a damn shame you have to pay for access into the gallery to download new 'backgrounds'. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Looks pretty nice, but it's a damn shame you have to pay for access into the gallery to download new 'backgrounds'. :( Really, the last time I went there you could download anything, but you got the dreamrender logo on the dreams until you bought the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 Really, the last time I went there you could download anything, but you got the dreamrender logo on the dreams until you bought the program. Take a look, I think they're now charging people to go into the gallery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallithrax Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 Take a look, I think they're now charging people to go into the gallery. It sucks they are doing that. I am assuming that they no longer charge for the program, but charge for the access to new dreams. You used to be able to download anything, but until you bought the program you had the logo floating about the dreams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minifig Posted June 2, 2007 Author Share Posted June 2, 2007 Oh well, guess I'm stuck dreaming until I actually break down and buy Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKuro Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 (edited) I still don't get the appeal of these . 1. they use slightly more resources than a typical wallpaper (me = somewhat minimalist, hates wasted resources) 2. unless you have a low res monitor, all these dreamscene look like ass uspcaled on a higher res monitor. . it will only look good at 1:1 pixel mapping. so unless they make 1080p dreamsences that don't bog down your system, people with decent monitors should just look to getting nice high res wallpapers (me hates upscaled blocky, blurry compressed vids on his nice HD displays) They are a nice concept, but the vid (dreamscene) has to map to the pixels 1:1 or it will always look worse in PQ than a nice HD wallpaper. (i hate upscaling . . native res is a must for anything) but most people don't care and just like the moving picture; competely ignorant to the fact that it isn't very high res and looks like crap when run on a nice screen. Edited June 2, 2007 by cooljerk_dv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 It's just a gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVER85 Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Oh well, guess I'm stuck dreaming until I actually break down and buy Vista. Yes you are. DreamScene is powered off dwm.exe, which is the process that powers the Aero interface, so there's no chance that DreamScene in itself can work on XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoXY Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 It's just a gimmick. Exactly. And thats why people are looking for gimmicky solutions... Like running it on XP :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[deXter] Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Oh well, guess I'm stuck dreaming until I actually break down and buy Vista. Did you read my post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 It's just a gimmick. The videos, probably. They eat up too much CPU and stutter too easily. But once Stardock releases their SDK, no one will ever say that again. Hell, look at their dynamic dreams: The Desktop Collage one, for example. I probably won't buy the ones from Stardock (Who has the money?) I plan to write a few once the SDK is released though. I love the Ovals one. It's dynamic, and it's my background. http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?ski...83&libid=50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hak Foo Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I'm looking for a program sort of like the animated desktop program for Vista, for XP.. Does anyone know of a way how I could go about doing this, without running Desktop X? You could write a web page with some JavaScript or possibly even Flash and then use Active Desktop to display it. I've done it in Win2000, but for a very simple "pan back and forth across a very large image"; it draw a bit of CPU time (few percent of a 4600+) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breck Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Like Hak Foo said, you can use a html-page (with embedded windows media player). Under Windows XP you can set *.html files as background like any other wallpaper (e.g. *.bmp, *.jpg), so no additional software is needed. To create such html-files for your PC you can use the freeware Tool XPScene (you can find it on dreamscene.org). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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