Setting Video As Desktop Wallpaper Ever wanted to set cool videos as your computersDesktop Wallpaper, then you came to right place. Today in this post i will teach you how to set videos as your Desktop Wallpaper with a simple nice little trick and small tool or software that mostly every one has installed on their computer or laptop. This trick works on Windows Xp as well as it works on windows 7. Go through below post to learn this simple trick. How to set video as desktop wallpaper ? 1. OpenVLCMedia Player. 2. Then Go to Tools>PreferenceOr pressCTRL + Pand Selecet Video from left panel 3. Then Choose DirectX video outputfrom output dropdown list. 4. Save the changes ans restart VLC Media Player. 5. Play any video you would like to set as your desktop wallpaper. 6. Then click on Video and selectDirectX Wallpaperfrom the dropdown list as show in below image. 7. Now Minimize vlc player andyou will see your video running on your desktop as wallpaper. 8. If you want your default wallpaper back then uncheck DirectX Wallpaper from video dropdown list.