How To Use A Video File As Screensaver In Windows?
Posted November 26, 2008 – 1:23 pm in: Freeware, Softwares, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweaks, XP Tweaks[ad#ad-1]
We all use screensaver on our systems. Many folks even download cool screensavers to make their desktop more fancy. But, why to download these screensavers when you can create one yourself for free? Yes, you can create or use your own screensaver from a Video of any format.
As the title of the post says, we discuss two different ways in this guide.
1. Using Videos directly without creating a screensaver file.
2. Using Video file as screensaver after converting it to exe file.
1. Using Video file directly without creating a screensaver file: This is the simplest method as you need not to convert your video file into an executable file to use it as screensaver. In this method we use a small application named” Video Screensaver Maker” that allows us to use Video file as screensaver.
To start with this method, we need to download Video Screen Saver Maker software from here. Video Screen Saver Maker plays AVI, MPEG, WMV video files as a screensaver with random video support. That is, you can select a set of Video files to play as screensaver.
Advantages of Video Screensaver Maker:
- Create screensavers that have your own screensaver name.
- Ability to add a link button which opens directly to your website, driving more traffic to your site.
- Created screensavers run on all Windows systems.
- Add WMV, AVI, or even MPEG video types. You can even mix all 3 types.
- Add your own audio files which play while the videos play.
2. Using Videos as screensaver after converting a exe file:This is quite a long method compared to the previous method since we create a actual screensaver. Here, advantage is you can even distribute the video screensaver file among your friends and can be used on any Windows machine without using third-party application.
In this guide we have to use two free utilities, if you don’t have video files in FLV format. You can use a free converter like SuperVideo, that allows you convert any video files into FLV format. Once you have FLV format video, download and install another application called “InstantStorm”. InstantStorm utility creates Flash based screensavers with many advanced features. You can download it from here.
Install the downloaded InstantStorm installer file and start it up. Just input the file you want to use as Screensaver by hitting the browse button and navigating to your FLV file. It will you give you an executable file, which when opened becomes the video screensaver of your Windows machine.
Tags: Screensavers
- 14 Excellent Windows 7 themes
- How to make bootable USB
- 27 Beautiful Vista logon screens
- How to install Windows 7 from USB
- Remove Watermark from Windows 7 desktop
- Windows 7 tips & tricks
- Windows 7 inside out free chapters
- Windows 7 step by step free chapters
- What's new in Windows 7
- Windows 7 impact world wide
- Using Windows XP mode in Windows 7
- Power management in Windows 7
2 Comments
Hi, I just followed your advise and links to software required for the topic mentioned, I should point out to you that the video converter to FLV files is full of Trojons.
Not nice
I have been doing mpg for years and using Spectate Swamp search to play them back as a screen saver. Random makes it interesting and random sampling from within a video clip even more so. Slow motion and freeze frame slow down the action.
It has wmv and avi capabilities but not to the extent as with mpg
I have even used it for large font scrolling text questions, as a screen saver. Political questions playing in a store front. Putting heat on politicians.
Video this way is easy and fun.