James	"I found a way" July 27, 2009 Ok, I found a really hodge podge way of making the animated wallpapers run on the Mac OS X platform. The steps are as follows. 1. Download the wallpaper. 2. Download something called iScreensaver from www.iScreensaver.com 3. Download a program called prism from http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/plus.html 4. Download a program called Bgscreensaver v1.1 which can be found here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17986 and elsewhere. 5. After you've downloaded all the necessary programs, start by converting the downloaded file to .mpg using prism at the highest framerate, bitrate, and whatever other rates there are available to modify in the encoding options. 6. Convert the file. 7. Then use iScreensaver to make the newly converted movie file into a screensaver. 8. Once that's done, open the Bgscreensaver application and the movie will play as your desktop background. That's it! It's a little roundabout but it works. P.S. It seems, however, that if you want the animation to play continuously without an annoying text message appearing every so often, you need to purchase the full version of iScreensaver. Also, the Bgscreensaver application does not run constantly so when you sleep the computer and shut it down, the animated background either stops moving or goes away and you have to restart Bgscreensaver to get it to work again. If anyone knows of a better way, I'd love to hear it but this is a way that I have found. Peace.
James	"Mac OSX problem with animated backgrounds" July 26, 2009 Hi. Is there anyway to play the animated backgrounds on a mac or a way to convert them into screensavers so that any one of the other programs used to play screensavers as backgrounds will work with the animation? On a Mac OS X platform? Please respond. Thanks
Ryan	"To: Chris" April 25, 2009 Have you gotten any of the other animations to play?
Chris	"Mac OSX problem" April 25, 2009 I managed to download the Singularity video - it came down as a .mpg file, but it would not open with Quicktime. I tried renaming it with a .mov extension (as I'd read other comments about OSX) but that didn't work either. I trashed it & downloaded a fresh copy, but no love there either. Please help! I want this wallpaper on my Mac!
mark	"cant download" February 7, 2009 I clicked on the download button and it wont dl......just wondering what I am doing wrong?
Travis	""Dreamscene" Animated Wallpapers" January 29, 2009 I, for one, would LOVE to see more and more animated wallpapers created for your wonderful collection. I bought a lifetime subscription to your amazing art years ago, and have thoroughly enjoyed it ever since. I usually check your site about once a month for any new art. I got Vista back even before it was officially released (test market), and as soon as I discovered Dreamscene, I immediately came and checked your site, to discover very happily that you already had some animated wallpapers for me to enjoy. If I may make a suggestion, it would be that you turn some of your previous animations (like that "mage battle" you did a few years back, divided into "light magic" and "dark magic") into Dreamscene wallpapers. I think "Pyre" and "Spellcraft" are two that I would especially love to see animated. ;) Thanks again, and I'm glad to hear that you are back home with your loving family. Wishing you well, and hoping to see more wonderful art from you soon! - Travis
Hayden	"VLC 0.9.2" January 28, 2009 I downloaded the Singularity video file and attempted to set it as my wallpaper but ran into a road block when I noticed I didn't have the correct version of VLC (which I believe is 7.1). The version I have does not have a "settings" tab. Any advice as to how to make this newer version work?
Ryan	"Using VLC for Animated Wallpaper" June 2, 2008 This page has instructions on how to set up VLC to play animations on your desktop.
FynDara	"Question to Kensei" June 1, 2008 You mention using VLC so you can have this as your wall paper in XP. How did you set that up? Please do tell as I really want this for my wallpaper, but I'm stuck on XP for a while still.
Jason	"These things are awesome" April 12, 2008 I'd really like to see more of the animated stuff if and when you have time. I just discovered Windows Dreamscene, and once I did the first place I went was here. All three of these animations are wonderful when used as desktop backgrounds.
Ryan	"OS X" March 18, 2008 Estel: That's a great question. If OS X users can use Quicktime files as wallpaper then I will happily encode MOV versions for you guys. Just let me know!
Estel	"What about us OSX users" March 18, 2008 Is there a possibility to most .mov files here so Mac OSX users can add them as backgrounds? BTW Vista Dreamscape is about 6 years late.
Adrian	"Too Fast" January 12, 2008 Nice, but I think it's too fast for something that should be ambient. I could probably slow it down myself, but I'm too lazy...
WritheM	"Vista DreamScene" December 19, 2007 i think there will be a lot more demand for more of these spectacular videos now that there is the vista Dreamscene option for those of us who have vista ultimate. It lets you put a video on your desktop and these come formated perfectly for just such a background.
Casey W.	"Whoa!" November 8, 2007 Alright I think you've found your new niche to add to your site this looks gorgeous on my 30" monitor! Your incredibly talented! Keep up the awsome work!!
hotirish	"what about xp lovers?" November 4, 2007 I do not run Vista as it's not appropriate for my purposes. I am a long time lover of this site... in fact, ever since I stumbled across this site, I don't use any others for my desktop graphics. I use multiple monitors as well as an HD projector to show my customers an example of a computer's capabilities. I have downloaded alternate players only to discover they don't do me any good because I am unable to download the video. Please help!! I am unwilling to resort to using Vista!
Tim	"LOVE IT" October 26, 2007 Ever since I first became a member of this site back in either 2004 or 2005, I fell in love with the Singularity background wallpaper. I later found a lower quality animation of it on this website and thought it was cool and always wanted it as a screen saver. Now with Windows Vista Ultimate... I find you have an MPEG2 version and I just jumped on it. It is AWESOME!!! Thank you!!!!!
Kensei	"yay!" August 28, 2007 I downloaded VLC media player. It let's XP users experience the magic as well. I'm loving this singularity... Ironically, it doesn't "suck" at all, tee hee.
Kensei	"Does this work on a XP platform?" August 28, 2007 I am trying to get it to work, but calls on "Photo Gallery" (I assume is a VISTA criectory). If I can get this to work I'll be happy, like a butterfly on a warm spring day with blue skies, water falls & Kenyans.
Kell	"Something sized for phones?" August 22, 2007 I would absolutely love to be able to set one of these as my cell phone background (I have an LG vx9900, which allows videos as background). Sizing would be weird, since every screen seems to be unique, but it would still be very cool!
Tofurkey	"Need more animations" August 15, 2007 I am totally mesmerized from watching these animations. I want more... wait... I need more of these animations!!
Ravenscrof	"New Vistas!" August 3, 2007 OK, OK! I was going to renew my membership anyway, I can't let the family go wanting and distract you now!
Michael L.	"Nice" August 2, 2007 This is truly amazing work. I wish I was as skilled as you are, sadly I don't have the time or patience. I can't wait to see your next work, perhaps an animated version of "Tropical Moon"?
Tony	"Singularity Background Idea" July 31, 2007 I just have to share this idea: Make your Recycle Bin icon completely blank/transparent. Remove the windows "Recycle Bin" text below it if you know how. Place the recycle bin directly over the center of the black hole. Now whenever you want to delete something, you can drag it into the center of the black hole.
meerlo	"animation" July 31, 2007 Both are lyrical and lovely. Please consider doing more.
FRODO50	"SINGULARITY AS COSMOLOGICAL EVENT" July 30, 2007 BEAUTIFUL AND ENGAGING IT IS...THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON (WHERE MATTER AND EVERY THING ELSE SLIPS INTO SOMEWHERE ELSE...)..COULD BE AUGMENTED TO GIVE THAT PART OF THE SINGULARITY SOME ADDITIONAL 3D PERSPECTIVE....GREAT STUFF.......JSW
John	"Dreamscene" July 29, 2007 Anyone with any version of Windows Vista can use dreamscene. Microsoft does not promote it, but there are many sites out there with a special patch for all versions of Vista. I am currently running dreamscene on Vista Home Premium. Once you install it, you can use any mpeg or wmv file as the background. It is just beautiful.
Richard	"Animated backgrounds" July 28, 2007 These are absolutely astoundingly brilliant! I have never had so many people looking at my system as when I have these on the background. My system has 4 24" widescreens, and it works wonderfully stretched proportionally over them all!! Thank you so much for making such wonderful backgrounds and animated backgrounds. I look forward to seeing even more animated ones in the future! Might it be worth doing a WMV and MPEG version (the WMV of this at exactly the same quality - Windows Media HD 1080p is only 24Mb) that way you would reduce your downloads slightly. Alternatively I would happily pay extra to get the animated backgrounds - perhaps you could charge $1 per download of animated backgrounds or something to help with the download cost!
Matthew	"Animation" July 27, 2007 This is great!
Dave	"Setting as background" July 27, 2007 1. You need Windows Vista (ultimate too I believe) 2. Download and install 'Dreamscenes' via Windows Update 3. Right click on mpg file and choose 'Set as Background' 4. Profit :)
Calvin	"How do you set as desktop background?" July 27, 2007 sweet work
Ryan	"Xvid" July 27, 2007 I would use Xvid, but Xvid encoded videos do not work with Dreamscene. Only WMV and MPG. MPG is the more "multi-platform" of my two choices.
Andrea	"format" July 27, 2007 Here's a hint for your bandwith: why don't you go for something a bit more compressed, but still fairly multi-platform? I have no idea which formats are supported (natively) by Vista, but if it can use anything for which it has a codec, I'd try with XVid - it's Free and easily available for Windows and Linux, and probably OS X.

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