"If you're tired of staring at the same old static wallpapers in Windows 11, there's help on the way. Microsoft has just added support for animated video backgrounds in the latest Insider builds of its popular operating system, heralding their likely appearance in a production update soon. The hidden capability, which was first spotted by feature-finding guru phantomofearth, works with any MP4 or M4V video file and adjusts it to fill your screen."
"When I chose a video I had shot in portrait mode, the system cropped my video so that it would take up my entire 4K monitor, without skewing the image. There seems to be no practical limit on the size or length of videos. I played through an entire 4K 60 fps nature video that was five and a half minutes long and close to 1 GB in file size."
"If you're a student of Windows, you may recall that Vista had a feature called DreamScene back in 2007, which allowed users to designate WMV or MPG files as wallpapers. That capability was disabled in Windows 7, which instead offered a simple slideshow that carried into Windows 8. There are some third-party apps, such as Lively Wallpaper, that add animated backgrounds to Windows."
Microsoft has added animated video background support to Windows 11 Insider Beta and Dev builds. The feature accepts MP4 and M4V files and crops or adjusts videos to fill displays without skewing the image. Large, high-resolution, and long videos can play as wallpapers, but they run without sound or captions. The capability echoes Vista's DreamScene, which allowed WMV/MPG wallpapers before being removed in Windows 7. Third-party apps already offer animated backgrounds, but built-in support removes the need for extra software. Enabling the feature requires specific Insider build numbers and the ViVeTool to unlock it.
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