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i did a fairly extensive search ahead of time, so if i missed where this is covered im sorry!

im setting up a pc for an art/instillation piece for school and needed a way to get a full-screen looping video to play upon power up, automatically with no intervention. currently i went about it by turning the .mov animation into an avi, loading it onto a pc with powerpoint and making it into a fullscreen/autoloop slide, and than exporting that to a CD containing the pptviewer and all the other files needed. than it was just a matter of copying that cd back onto the target pc and making a "+/s /l "animation.ppt" alias in the startup folder. this works well enough, and could easily be done, however when i converted the animation to avi, in order to maintain the .mov quality i had to export at a fairly hight bitrate turning a 70mb file into a 400+mb file.

since this could potentially be running for quite some time, i was thinking the 70mb .mov version would run better as the computer will be hanging from an angle and i want to keep the hdd seeking down to a minimum. is there anyway i could get the .mov file to start up with vlc into full screen on auto loop, and if so, how would i go about it?

thanks in advance!

run

vlc.exe --loop --fullscreen.

run

vlc.exe --loop --fullscreen.

so thats what i type into the shortcut link, and in that format? and would it automatically open the "FINAL.mov" file? or would the shortcut be to the mov file and just be "c:\\blah blah blah\FINAL.mov" vlc.exe --loop --fullscreen ?

If you want to avoid the command line method, you can also do this:

-Go to Settings > Preferences

-Click "Video" and tick "Fullscreen video output"
-Click "Playlist" and tick "Repeat current item" (Change that depending on whether you want a playlist to load and play all)#
-Click Save and then exit VLC

-Go to the folder with the video you wish to play and right click it. Choose "Create Shortcut".

-Right click the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and click Properties.
-Click Advanced, wait for the Windows Explorer window to load. You should see the open window for your Start Menu, click Programs and then Startup
-Copy the shortcut you just created for the video into the startup folder.

That should give you the desired effect of the video file loading when you start the machine, have VLC load automatically (make sure VLC is the default program to load that file of course, if you're unsure of how to do that, the explanation is below), have VLC load in full screen, start playing automatically and loop forever.

Changing default program for a filetype:

-Right click the video file with the extension you wish to associate with VLC.
-Click "Open With..."
-If VLC Media Player is not on the list, click Browse and browse to the Program Files folder on the hard drive and locate VLC's folder, choose "vlc.exe".
-Click "Always use this program to open this kind of file"
-Click OK

I hope this helps, if it doesn't, PM me and I'll see if I can help out anymore.

Chris/KsE

If you want to avoid the command line method, you can also do this:

-Go to Settings > Preferences

-Click "Video" and tick "Fullscreen video output"
-Click "Playlist" and tick "Repeat current item" (Change that depending on whether you want a playlist to load and play all)#
-Click Save and then exit VLC

-Go to the folder with the video you wish to play and right click it. Choose "Create Shortcut".

-Right click the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and click Properties.
-Click Advanced, wait for the Windows Explorer window to load. You should see the open window for your Start Menu, click Programs and then Startup
-Copy the shortcut you just created for the video into the startup folder.

That should give you the desired effect of the video file loading when you start the machine, have VLC load automatically (make sure VLC is the default program to load that file of course, if you're unsure of how to do that, the explanation is below), have VLC load in full screen, start playing automatically and loop forever.

Changing default program for a filetype:

-Right click the video file with the extension you wish to associate with VLC.
-Click "Open With..."
-If VLC Media Player is not on the list, click Browse and browse to the Program Files folder on the hard drive and locate VLC's folder, choose "vlc.exe".
-Click "Always use this program to open this kind of file"
-Click OK

I hope this helps, if it doesn't, PM me and I'll see if I can help out anymore.

Chris/KsE

thank you much, i'll try this out next class on thursday and if i have any problems i'll come knocking