Just spiffed up my VL7.1 desktop with an animation via xwinwrap from the repository.
In addition to screensavers xwinwrap can also run a video clip such as the one snapped here called BlueHexGrid.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0jphoh181c1vew/winwrap.pngAnother
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u4y9dmuobhsp00h/winwrap2.pngYou can find this and many more here for free, both flv and mp4 worked for me. sample in the scroll list and download below it
https://archive.org/details/AwesomeFreeHdStockVideosForFreeTo run as wallpaper type the following in run program from the menu or in terminal
xwinwrap -ni -o 0.3 -fs -s -st -sp -b -nf -- mplayer -wid WID -quiet -loop 0 /home/someone/Downloads/BlueHexGrid.flv
Note: you will not have icons or right click menu with these settings, here I am not using icons and can toggle off xwinwrap if I need the right click desktop menu, I still get pop ups for usb
To exit type: killall xwinwrap
(the next time you open run program you can choose from the list to save copy pastes. simply type x or k)
If you want to try an animated gif you can convert it here:
http://www.online-convert.com/I had some issue with aspect ratio with some smaller gif
Here are some xwinwrap settings I googled to toy with, you can change the opacity via the number after -o (O.1,2,3,4 ETC)
-g = parse geometry
-ni = no input
-argb = argb visual
-fs = full screen
-s = sticky
-st = skip taskbar
-sp = skip pager
-a = above
-b = below
-nf = no focus
-o OPACITY
Another find on youtube- Good Night Earth.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUOjryzrGYI have a downloader extension in the browser so downloaded from there but try what you like.
I found BlueHexGrid used less resource on my minimal specs
Perhaps of interest to someone, improves my gimp wallpaper considerably imho
Cheers
