Most screensavers stop at still images. Memory Screen Saver Plus treats video as a normal part of the rotation: home movies, clips from a phone, and exported edits play when the machine goes idle, alongside the photos already sitting in the same folders.
Video playback is bundled. There is no separate media player, codec pack, or runtime to install — the Windows and Mac installers are self-contained.
Which video formats are supported
Video: MP4, AVI, WMV and MOV. Images: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF. Video is entirely optional — leave it switched off and the app behaves as a pure photo screensaver.
Files that are corrupt, unsupported, or cloud-only placeholders that were never downloaded locally are skipped rather than stalling the rotation.
Turn on video playback
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Add your folders
On the Media Files tab, drag in the folders holding your videos. Turn on Include subfolders if clips live in per-year or per-event directories.
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Enable the formats you want
Open the Video tab and switch on MP4, AVI, WMV or MOV. Only the formats you enable enter the rotation.
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Cap the clip length
A long recording would otherwise hold a screen for its full duration. Setting a maximum clip length means a ten-minute video contributes a short excerpt and the rotation keeps moving.
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Choose one screen or all screens
Decide whether a clip plays on a single display while the others carry on with stills, or whether the same video spans every connected monitor.
Photos and video in one rotation
Photos and clips share a single rotation rather than running as separate modes. A folder of holiday memories plays back the way it was recorded — stills and moving footage interleaved — with the 29 transition effects applied between items and Soft Effects animating the stills.
Playback order can be random or sequential, and optional filename overlays can show the full path, the relative path, or just the file name when you want to know what is on screen.
Audio is muted by default. A screensaver that suddenly makes noise in a quiet room is rarely what anyone wants, so silence is the starting point rather than a setting you have to go looking for.
Video across multiple monitors
Every connected display runs on independent timing, so screens do not all change at the same moment. Pair this with the Windows multi-monitor guide to decide which monitors show video and which stay on stills.
Apple Silicon note: bundled video on the native arm64 Mac build is not ready yet. For video on a Mac today, use the Intel archive under Rosetta — or run the arm64 build for photos, Soft Effects and Presentation Mode. See the Mac install guide.
Video while you work, not only when idle
The same clips can run in Live Presentation Mode: floating or full-screen frames that keep playing while you carry on working, with no lock screen. Each frame keeps its own playback history, so you can step back to a clip you just missed in one frame without disturbing the others.
Large video libraries
The app is built for real archives — collections running to tens or hundreds of thousands of files. Add top-level folders, enable subfolders, and filter by file type to keep scanning fast. Nothing is copied, converted, or re-encoded; your originals stay exactly where they are.
Nothing leaves your machine
Video is read from the local folders you choose. Nothing is uploaded or streamed anywhere, and the app runs offline after install — no account and no cloud.
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