Discussion in 'OS X Mavericks (10.9)' started by hbaromega, Jul 31, 2014.
Can I set up a video in the background or as a desktop wallpaper? I am using OS X 10.9.4.
Earlier there was such an option while playing a video using VLC player. But in this version I could not see that.
Or something could be done with MplayerX or Mplayer OS X?
EDIT: just tried it, very cool (works with my own videos...).
Sorry, this seems to be not free. Is there something for open-source minded people? Also the app seems to be heavy (around 1 GB)!
it's $1.99. and, you can do what i did: delete (from package contents) many or all of the built-in videos. i got rid of most of them, brought the app to 46.6 megs.
so, cheap, and easy to make a smaller file. and it works flawlessly.
This worked perfectly for me. Now I'm downloading some sweet, free videos from http://coverr.co/ to play on my desktop!
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Needed to re-activate my macrumors account just to thank you for this. Although the page you guys are referring to with the script apparently no longer exists, but I hope it won't be too difficult to find something similar. Thanks everyone anyway for all the ideas!
So apparently just the script won't do the job anymore and you would need a little bit more of tweaking which I'm not very fond of, so I resorted to VLC which does the trick of setting a Youtube video (or any other it can play, really) as my wallpaper/desktop. Resolution is not the greatest but it's so far the safest solution I could find. Would be interested if anyone finds anything better.