How do I create a screen saver from a video file?

I've been trying to search for an answer to this question for 20 minutes, without luck, so I figured the best course of action is to ask the experts.
I'm a video editor. If I cut together a series of clips, of any length, how do I make that movie into a screen saver that will be usable on OS X Lion and Windows XP? I would assume that it's just a matter of converting the movie file to something that an operating system recognizes and will play as a screen saver (on both platforms), but I cannot Google my way into finding the answer... I'm wanting to make a video screen saver for my wife for Christmas. PLEASE HELP!!!
Thanks.

Hi,
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There are a few tools you can use. This page lists a couple. It looks like you can download a trial version and see if it'll do what you want. If not there's another one on that page.
If you're handy with programming, you can also create your own with Xcode. There's an article here that talks about it, though it's a bit old, and might be somewhat out of date.
But just dropping SWF files probably isn't going to work. A screen saver is a special kind of program...
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