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MacBoy88
Oct 13, 2003, 09:47 PM
I need to make a .mov as my desktop. It is an awesome iPod ad. Anyone got any ideas?


MontanaMacster
Oct 13, 2003, 11:19 PM
I haven't tried this but it might work ok,
Desktop Movie Player 2.1 (http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/DesktopMoviePlayer.html)
ColoJohnBoy
Oct 14, 2003, 12:02 AM
I just downloaded it and ran it! It's awesome! Kind of nice to have a movie going when I'm doing other stuff. I do have one complaint: there's no playlist feature. If you want to play several movies in succession, you have to put them all in a single folder. Other than that, it rocks!
cb911
Oct 14, 2003, 06:12 AM
oh sweet!!! MontanaMacster, thanks for posting that link! :D those guys also make heaps of other cool stuff for me to spend my time with!! :D i've hit the jackpot now...!

macboy88, i assume you know you can set a screensaver as your wallpaper, don't you? that's cool as well if you've into the whole moving desktop thing. :) just do a search here, should be heaps of info about it. ;)
VladDracul
Oct 14, 2003, 10:22 AM
Originally posted by cb911


macboy88, i assume you know you can set a screensaver as your wallpaper, don't you?

How can you set a screensaver as your desktop?
Veldek
Oct 14, 2003, 10:42 AM
From the terminal:

nice +20 /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

Or you have to get one of the apps. Just look at VersionTracker.
ColoJohnBoy
Oct 14, 2003, 11:24 AM
I've been using it some this morning, and it turns out the thing is a CPU monster. If you're going to be running a lot of applications without much RAM, look out. It was okay with just Word, iChat, and Mail open.

I have it set on my folder of music videos. Nothing like watching Missy Elliot "Get Hur Freak On" in the middle of an Anglo-Saxon Poetry class. :D

(I had the sound off, so I could enjoy "Beowulf" at the same time)
cb911
Oct 15, 2003, 12:40 AM
you've got to expect that an app like that will eat your CPU... it is playing a movie after all.

i was just thinking how good it would be to pull a prank on someone with having a movie as their desktop. you could take a screenshot of their desktop, then make that as the start of the movie... then as they are working away they see heaps of funny stuff happen. :D the possibilities are limitless!! :D
Dale Sorel
Oct 15, 2003, 01:03 AM
Originally posted by MacBoy88
I need to make a .mov as my desktop.

You can do that with DeskShade Plus (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16018).