One of the most awesome things about the internet are videos. Videos of any kind... musical, scientific, artful, astronomical, cinematographic, etc. And there are many ways to download these videos for your later pleasure. So, now you have these beautiful videos saved in your computer, wouldn't be awesome to use one of these as a screensaver? Well, I asked myself the same question, and I found a solution that just can do that. It's a very simple, as its name, yet very cool piece of freeware that can play almost any type of video as a Windows screensaver. Its name is
Video Screensaver. It even works with Windows 8. The developer,
rodflash.com, says that it can play
avi, mpg, mov, mp4, m4v, 3gp, wmv, or
rmvb files. But, if you can play any other type of video files with your VFW/ACM codecs or DirectShow filters, it will work with
Video Screensaver.
In my personal experience, I prefer multimedia codecs and dshow filters because I find they tend to have higher fidelity and better performance. My only and favourite codec/filter pack is
K-lite Mega Codec Pack accompanied with its
64-bit counterpart. You can download it at
Codec Guide. I have use it for years and I haven't had a problem with it.
