Watch video on your desktop

Some time ago I’ve found a useful feature in VLC media player: to play a video on your desktop’s wallpaper. This allows you to watch a movie behind your desktop’s icons and, if you use them, widgets.

The last time I saw a moving wallpaper, being generated from a media player, was the Milkdrop visualisations for Winamp. This was pretty amazing, but nowhere near as amazing as watching a movie on the desktop!

This may not be very productive, but is pretty interesting and fun to see.

You can download VLC media player from here.

In order to watch a video, in VLC, on the desktop;

1. Open a movie with VLC.

2. Right click on the video (while playing)

3. Press Wallpaper.

That’s it.