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You can use your own loop.avi, just replace the current one with your own. You can also have music in the loop.avi. My loop.avi is 1 minute long and is 3.5mb in size with no issues.

If you are familiar with Virtualdub, you can use that to create your loop.avi. Simply editing the previous loop.avi by adding a new image or adding audio to it, etc. You can use anything as your loop.avi aslong as it's xvid compression.

How to make static background loops for mplayer ce

Software used: Gimp AVIDemux

1. Open Gimp and create a new image (640x456 for standard defenition, 624x352 for widescreen). You can use whatever image program you want, but Gimp is free, cross-platform, and powerful. So is avidemux, btw.

2. Edit the new image for your background so it looks how you want it. Save it as a jpg or png.

3. Open Avidemux. Set the video codec to xvid. Open the image you created. Copy the image and paste it several times so that you have a good number of frames. I'd say 60 frames is more than enough. Save the video as "loop.avi".

You're done. Also, please submit your themes to http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/wiki/UserSubmittedCustomizations