Tweaking WMP to do some..interesting things

[tim1477]

Guys,
I need to find a way to have windows media player launch in full screen mode and disable the ability for the user to get out. Is this possible, and what can i do? Thanks

edit: actually it doesnt even have to be WMP, it can be anything. i just need the video to run full screen upon launching

[glc]

What you need is a media player that can be launched in "kiosk" mode. I haven't found one yet, but I haven't looked too hard either. If you use the term "kiosk" in your searches that may help.

[rightcoast]

WMP can do this from emmbedded Javascript on a webpage as well. Try search for that too if you can build pages. It obviously doesn't have to accually be online but would open with FF, IE etc...then lauch WMP

[rightcoast]

I don't know if you into coding, but this will help you:


The following code in the header:


var stateTimer = null;

function playFullscreen() {
// Check if the video is playing. If it is, change
// to fullscreen. If not, start checking to see when
// it is.
if (3 == MediaPlayer.playState) {
MediaPlayer.fullscreen = 'true';
} else {
MediaPlayer.controls.play();
if (!stateTimer) stateTimer =
window.setInterval( checkState, 500 );
}
}

function checkState() {
// Check periodically to see if the video has
// started. If so, destroy the timer and change to
// fullscreen
if (3 == MediaPlayer.playState) {
window.clearInterval( stateTimer );
stateTimer = null;
MediaPlayer.fullscreen = 'true';
}
}




You can look into the WMP command line parameters and try a batch file to accomplish this too.....

[tim1477]

yea i know a little coding...html and im taking java this year in school. where would that code go, in my html or would i need to edit one of WMP's files?

[tim1477]

Originally Posted by glc What you need is a media player that can be launched in "kiosk" mode. I haven't found one yet, but I haven't looked too hard either. If you use the term "kiosk" in your searches that may help.

think it would work if i made a webpage with a full screen video on it, and launched internet explorer in kiosk mode?

edit: ok i got it to work using this way. sweet

[glc]

Sorry about the deletions, but the script was running and I made it uneditable by making it worse!