Play video fullscreen on second screen on bootup in repeat

[snowdog]

Is there a different way to achieve this except making a batch file :

''start wmplayer "C:\Users\User\Desktop\clip.m4v" /fullscreen''

?

Then manually moving it to the 2nd screen and putting it on repeat ( WMP saves its settings from last run) ?

The problem is, I fear wmp goes out of fullscreen mode if you do things like use LMI ( logmein) or start something else fullscreen on the first screen.

Is there a way to lock WMP ( or a different media player) on a particular screen regardless of what happens ?

 

[Blackbadger]

Pot Player should allow you to all of those things automatically.

You can have it start always full screen mode, have it always on top, have it always open on the second monitor automatically.
Not sure if you can "lock it"

however wmp can be locked as per here
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/lock-the-screen-while-in-full-screen-mode-in-windows-media-player/

 

[PiKe]

vlc can probably do what you need too.

 

[lurkio]

I run a secondary screen on a continuous video play back cycle
I have 6 different video files played on after the other in a loop

The batch file loads on start-up and does the rest , I use psexec and VLC to do this

psexec "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe" --fullscreen --loop --noaudio c:\archery\ad1.mp4

To make it work right, open vlc drag it onto secondary screen , full screen it and then close it, when it starts again it will open in the last screen it ran on

c:\archery\ad1.mp4
Is the path to the file I want to play, you can add as many files as you like
stick psexec in the same path as the batch file

 

[snowdog]

Ok now I have a second question for you, is this possible with 3 screens :

Screen 1 runs a borwser application in fullscreen ?
Screen 2 plays video fullscreen
Screen 3 plays video fullscreen


Can this be done with VLC, or do I need both WMP and VLC ( drag one onto srceen 2, drag one onto screen, launch both from command line).

EDIT, and more importantly, ''lock'' it.

 

[snowdog]

Ok so I got 2 batch files now:

echo off
echo video start over 1 minuut
timeout 60
start "" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe" --video-x 140 --video-y 200 --fullscreen --loop --noaudio --no-video-title-show --no-qt-fs-controller C:\ProgramData\Videos\Presentatie2.m4v

and

echo off
echo video start over 1 minuut
timeout 60
start "" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe" --video-x 1281 --video-y 200 --fullscreen --loop --noaudio --no-video-title-show --no-qt-fs-controller C:\ProgramData\Videos\Presentatie2.m4v

This seems to work.

Play with the X coordinates to select any screen ( x=2561 would be screen 3, assuming 1280x1024).
Also ''use only one instance of vlc'' has to be disabled.

 

[snowdog]

What the hell, it used to work, now it doesn't any more, I don't understand . It both starts on one screen, grrr.

 

[snowdog]

qt-fullscreen-screennumber=<integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]> ( so 0 or 1 or 2)
'' Define which screen fullscreen goes''

This seems to work, but now the batch files/cmd windows stay active after boot, grr .

 

[snowdog]

echo off
echo video start over 1 minuut
timeout 60
start "" "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\vlc\vlc.exe" --video-x 1500 --video-y 400 --qt-fullscreen-screennumber=1 --fullscreen --loop --noaudio --no-video-title-show --no-qt-fs-controller C:\ProgramData\Videos\Presentatie2.m4v

With screennumers 0-1-2 now seems to work! Starting the batch files from shortcut minimized also seems to close em!