Color Me Video

What is Color Me Video?

Color Me Video is an exploration of hardware overlay colors and how hardware overlay colors can be used to view DVD video, video files (.avi, .wmv, .mp4, etc) and streaming video on your desktop as animated or video wallpaper. There is little information published about using video overlay colors for video wallpaper. Here, you can explore hardware overlay color, how to capture and use them.

What are Video Overlay Colors?

Video overlay colors or hardware overlay colors are a byproduct of the video graphics card technology. One of the basic functions of video graphics cards is to project movies and videos onto a monitor screen. The card captures then stores the video before projecting it onto a screen. When this happens it produces a specifiable color where the video is projected. Video overlay colors are like any other colors and can be used as any other color.