The latter will let you chose from a preset selection of animated wallpapers or make your own from a video or even choose an URL to use it for a YouTube wallpaper. The former can be used to set a video as your background. We’ll be using two apps to achieve this effect today: VLC media player and Lively Wallpapers. However, while live wallpapers in Windows 10 have been discontinued, you can bypass this if you set a video as a background or add animated wallpapers in Windows 10 via a third-party app. While Windows 97 and XP let users easily set a moving image as their background, in Windows 10 that’s not the case.

2 How to Use Animated Wallpapers / Video Wallpapers / YouTube Wallpapers in Windows 10 via Lively Wallpaper.

1 How to Set a Video as a Background using the VLC Wallpaper feature.

Speaking of which, you might be wondering how you can create a video background. That’ll save you the time of recreating your favorite Live Wallpapers if ever you change your background. For less than a trip to McDonalds ($1 a month or $10 a year), you get access to way more wallpaper sources, up to 4k video wallpapers, and the ability to store any created wallpapers on Google Photos. So, now all of CrosPaper’s users can set videos up to 720p as their wallpaper.īesides that, we tried to keep the price of Pro features to a minimum. But once I finished it, I really didn’t want it to be locked behind a paywall. After all, a ton of work and innovation went into making it possible. When I first started development on this feature, it was my thought that it’d be a paid feature only. Nothing is ever simple when creating an app, and since there’s no native support for moving wallpapers, we had to create an engine - and editor - to make this possible. Live Wallpaper on the Galaxy Chromebook (Gif by author)

Video live wallpapers