Desktop picture wanted

I'm trying to get a moving picture on my dektop of a fireplace...
something like the attachment.
Any help?

 

I never seen it has a desktop only in screensaver if it exist it will need alot of ressource CPU and memory so i am not sure if it will be a good idea !!!

 

Wow! Beautiful picture! I've been looking for something like this as well.

 

lol! I know it's not a good use of resources but I've hooked up my 26" widescreen up as dual monitor and it would look smart!!
The problem with running it as a screen saver is that I wouldn't be able to show off

 

If somebody could do one as an animated .gif image, that would run as desktop wallpaper, and be animated in Windows XP. I'm not an artist, but flame flickering shouldn't be too difficult to do.

 

Quite the opposite - Drawing flames to look as 'free' as they actually are is hard - and thats not animated.

The best bet as you say is to get a video of a fireplace 'flickering' and to split it into frames and compile the frames as a gif.

It would have to fit your screen , as being stretched it would look awful.

 

Or if the fireplace doesn't pan out, and you still want something animated, there are lots of spinning globe animated .gifs out there. Use one of those, centered, not stretched, and change your background color to black. Doesn't look too bad and doesn't tie up a ton of cpu cycles. I found this one with a Google search and it looks and works fine.

 

I thought thats a great idea nitrowing ,So I'v just spent over a hour searching google for one,found some crappy animated ones you have to pay for but no looping video of a real fire,I'm giving up for today but I'll start searching again tomorrow

 

lol - yeah I googled for a looong time before I asked here!!
I entertained the idea of videoing someone's fireplace and making a gif out of it but none of my mates has a real fire!!!!

 

I forgot - the original image is 561k - that's a scaled down version up there - PM me if you want the bigger one.

 

There are all kinds of fireplace DVD's out there. Worst case, assuming you have a DVD player in your computer and REALLY want this, buy one of those, run it full screen in PowerDVD or any other software that allows you to advance one frame at a time, do screen captures of each frame, and build your own animated .gif. with the pictures.