Making screensaver from an .avi file

Is there any way i can make a screensaver from an .avi file? At the moment i use "py software" (.exe is called animated screen). But i made a 30 second movie with fraps that is 690MB. Now i want to use an X number of frames of the movie for my screensaver. With animated screen i can do this, but when i want to use more than 78 frames the program shows from frame 79 and later only white frames. Is there any other program i can use that will be able to make a good screensaver?

2nd question: is there any way to make a background from an .avi file? I used a tool to convert .avi to .gif but then i loose lots of quality. I just want to try out something with high quality background that is changing 30 frames every sec.

(BTW i use windows xp, not vista).

 

virtualdub should be able to do what you want.....you can cut out a specific portion of an avi without any encoding (direct stream copy). also, there is a way to convert the images to bitmap, which should give you higher quality images....this last one, i'm not 100% sure about...i may be thinking about another program.

 

i tried virtualdub now but i couldn't figure out how to convert an .avi to .scr (screensaver file). Do you know how to do this in virtualdub?

 

Search in google for “avi to scr” or “Mpeg to scr” etc..

I don’t know of any free programs that will let you have a video as the descktop background. But with WinDVD you can; there maybe others.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=112997&highlight=dreamscene

cheers ...

 

ill try this out by sunday hopefully it will work and i wont get troubles with using limited frames