Run a video as screensaver - tutorial

whs

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For those of you who would like to run a video (rather than pictures) as a screensaver, I put together that easy instruction on how to do it. Please note, that this does not work with very basic on-board graphics chips like the Nvidea 6159LE or the ATI 3100. The video filetype should be .wmv.

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Sweet :p I'll definately have to give this a try!
 

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WHS

Nice. you should probably put it on win 7 as well. someone there was looking for this last week
 

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WHS

Nice. you should probably put it on win 7 as well. someone there was looking for this last week

Unfortunately it does not run on Win7. No idea whay they took that away.
 

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Well thats a bummer. i wonder if something similar could be done
 

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Well thats a bummer. i wonder if something similar could be done


On second thaught, I wonder whether it would work on a "native" Win7. I run Win7 in a vBox virtual partition. My "native" Win7 is on my machine in Florida where I am only in November. If one of you guys could check whether it would allow you to make the settings on a "native" Win7, we would know better.
I got this idea because I know that it does not work with the quoted low end on-board graphics chips either. Maybe running in a virtual partition has a similar effect because the graphics capability is restricted.
 

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