HOW-TO:Play music with background video

Due to the nature of XBMC, there currently isn't an easy way in the interface to play a muted video and have a different music file play at on top of that. However, a clever trick with XBMC's karaoke feature has given one possible way to do this to hold us over, as described on this page.


 * Why would I want to do this?
 * Choosing a default background video for karaoke, which is what this feature was originally added for.
 * An alternative to music visualizations
 * Waterfalls? Waterfalls.
 * Christmas music while showing a video of a log fireplace