Windows DreamScene Options

[impala454]

went back to vista 64 today, noticed one of the "ultimate extra" features is in there now, called DreamScene. Very cool. It's not really much more than a video that shows on your background, but the ones it comes with are pretty sweet, here's a SS:



it's hard to really see whats its doing in a ss, but it's continuously moving. there's another one with a moving stream and a few others. doesn't seem to degrade performance at all, even while running other videos.

and before anyone starts, yes i'm sure linux/mac/other have had something like this since like 1972. i just thought it was pretty neat. gives a bad ass feel to the system. like it's alive or somethin.

just another lil side note, looks like there's x64 drivers for all my stuff now, so the thing is spinnin like a top. if there's any software someone wants to know works or not let me know and maybe i can try it for you.

[zetec]

winamp can play videos on an overlay, as well as visualizations (which i think personally is cooler than dreamscene). Then it just sets your desktop (temporarily, only while winamp is open and the option is enabled) to the overlay color (defaults to some super never used reddish color, but you can change the color. It's kinda cool to set it to like white or black and have all your text be hippie-dippie-color-changing an stuffs) and it plays the video on everything that's set as the overlay color.


VLC will do it too.

edit: i was gonna post a screencap, but overlays don't show up on screencaps unless i disable all hardware accelleration, and i don't wanna slow my machine to a crawl just to screencap a visualization . The good thing is since it's an overlay, there's absolutely zero performance loss.

This post has been edited by zetec: May 22 2007, 04:43 PM