Dice7 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Betanews came out with this report yesterday http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_Vi...able/1171571686 Kinda look stupid to me but oh well what do i know Dice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 I think it's a great feature. Too bad it's not new to Vista. It's very easily achievable with Mac OSX, I have videos for my desktop background on my iMac and my powerbook. (though when on batteries i turn it off on the power book.) Does anyone want to know the steps to do this on the Mac? i should put a video on you tube or something i couldn't find out when looking around online. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 go ahead. kindly put some steps please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) I can't find a reference to this anywhere on the internet, I'm sure other people must have done this though. You can see my you tube videos (created the account today for this purpose alone) here: EDIT: At this point the videos only work occasionally, who knows why. Stoopid YouTube Would it be because I only created by first account today and they authorise videos to check for innapropriate content first? Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Here is the procedure for anyone that wants to know: 1) You need a video file that will loop nicely. Length doesn't matter at all though. You could have several Files and it will switch between them. Anyway, convert the files to a normal quicktime format (important) using quicktime pro or ffmpegX and pop them in a folder somewhere. 2) Download and install Backlight2 from http://www.freshlysqueezedsoftware.com 3) Download and install Voop from http://www.metastatic.org/source/Voop/ I guess you get the idea now 4) Point voop at your folder, and using backlight2 you can set it to even be transparent so you can see your desktop background picture translucently over the top. Loops awesome i think You can also set the priority of the thread that runs the video, great for slower machines. I set it to start on boot, so it's always running. If anyone else wants to do this and put some nice looking videos as their desktop background, post links to your videos here i'd like to see what others are doing. Darwinian Dude Edited February 17, 2007 by Darwinian Dude Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 There is also a free widget for running screensavers (including video screensavers) on your desk. Desksaver Plus. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Excellent! I haven't seen that one. But it looks like it doesn't let you control opacity to still see your background picture and the screensaver (video in this case) at the same time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 There's DVDesktop too. Lets you play DVDs on your desktop (suprisingly) I've got it going with setAlphaValue - transparent Safari w/ video behind. Grab doesn't work with video playback so no screens, sorry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 It was possible in XP too, hell, even 98 IIRC (But not quite the same) except in Vista it's done well (Uses few resources, etc). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Not sure why I can't edit my earlier post. Here is another one, showing an ocean scene with animated water. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard! Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Is something like this for xp to? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-305850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 There would have to be somwhere, but it would use a lot of CPU probably as in XP the cpu renders the display as opposed to the video card handling everything like Mac OSX does, and now vista does too. Normally in XP, your GPU on your video card just lies dormant until you fire up a game. Pretty much anyway. Not aware of anything though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Darwiniam Dude, where did you get that nice animated water? I want that desktop!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) heres an app that would let you make a video as your desktop too and even a web page(active) but ist not free http://www.stupidfish23.com/desktopmagik/ and hey darwinian dude, i cant find baclight2 software on your link Edited February 19, 2007 by my1stmacisaHACK Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Baron Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 and hey darwinian dude, i cant find baclight2 software on your link It's under - Products - Freeware (scroll down) - Backlight Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard! Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 heres an app that would let you make a video as your desktop too and even a web page(active) but ist not free http://www.stupidfish23.com/desktopmagik/ and hey darwinian dude, i cant find baclight2 software on your link try this one! http://freshsqueeze.com/get.fss?get=BackLight Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Darwiniam Dude, where did you get that nice animated water?I want that desktop!!! Thanks urby Download and setup voop and backlight2 as described above. The rippling water is a video i took down at the nearby stream. I can upload this quicktime movie and others i've made to my web site if you like. They are about 20mb in size each. (Required so the resolution doesn't look {censored}, and they aren't obviously looping) If there is interest, i'll upload all the ones i've done somewhere. I have quite a lot of movies setup to look nice for this purpose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 WOW, what value for money for Ultimate version, you pay a load of money for it to get this junk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Obrien Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 get the vlc media player and then use it to have video desktops in xp it runs great and takes up almost no system hardware Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpopilek Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Thanks urby Download and setup voop and backlight2 as described above. The rippling water is a video i took down at the nearby stream. I can upload this quicktime movie and others i've made to my web site if you like. They are about 20mb in size each. (Required so the resolution doesn't look {censored}, and they aren't obviously looping) If there is interest, i'll upload all the ones i've done somewhere. I have quite a lot of movies setup to look nice for this purpose. I'd be interested in getting a copy of those videos as well, very nicely done! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-306781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Thanks urby Download and setup voop and backlight2 as described above. The rippling water is a video i took down at the nearby stream. I can upload this quicktime movie and others i've made to my web site if you like. They are about 20mb in size each. (Required so the resolution doesn't look {censored}, and they aren't obviously looping) If there is interest, i'll upload all the ones i've done somewhere. I have quite a lot of movies setup to look nice for this purpose. I think all those videos are just GORGEOUS!!! I'd love to have those... all of them! They're so nice and warm and i want them!!! Great job with them! BTW I have the same laptop as you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-307021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alucard! Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 is there something for mack else like 3) Download and install Voop from http://www.metastatic.org/source/Voop/? voop is nice but it takes almost 19 % of my cpu and has no sound. i tried the mss (movie screen-saver). Not it is effective and stuff, but the problem is that not free, and it plays only for some time.. Does anyone know some kind of program alike? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-309743 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 DreamScene seems very beta-ish. When I'm in the wallpapers/backgrounds configuration window, it always gives me a run32.dll error and crashes as soon as I select a video for my background. The prepackaged videos Microsoft provided are very low-resolution and look pretty crappy when stretched to 1024x768 or anything higher. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-310705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_night_elf Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 could someone pls post a new link or an uploaded backlight2.dmg? The original site seems to be down. I d also like those nice movies with the water and stuff used for backgrounds, pls upload them too and provide a download link. Thx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-392679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionelator Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yup site seems to be down, any chance anyone still has the dmg and can upload backlight for those of us who dont have it yet? Thanks in advance, Lionel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-428718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_night_elf Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Still looking for an updated link or simply a link that works for backlight2. Can't someone pls upload it somewhere and provide the dowlnoad link for all of us who have yet to get it? thx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42625-windows-dreamscene-out-for-beta/#findComment-454846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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