quicktime movie playing fullscreen at startup
April 21, 2007 — hcgiljeI have struggled for a while to find a solution to something I thought would be quite simple: When the computer starts up it should play back a quicktime at full screen, in loopmode.
I solved this quite easily in max, but figured out a way to do this with applescript also.
First, one thing which isnt obvious, is that you can save your quicktime movie with the loop flag checked, so next time quicktime player opens that movie it will loop.
There are lots of applescripts for playing back an already opened movie, but I couldnt find a working solution to first open a movie, then play it back.
First download qtstartup.zip, unzip it, and then follow the instructions below:
- open your movie in quicktime player and turn on the loop (apple-L), and save the movie.
- go to your login items (in accounts in system preferences), and add your quicktime movie to the login items list.
- add the qt-startupscript to the login items, making sure it comes after the quicktime movie.
- restart the computer, and hopefully your quicktime movie is looping and playing back at fullscreen.
Here is the script:
on run
delay 10
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
delay 5
present movie 1 scale screen
end tell
end run
May 23, 2007 at 19:43
Jusu from Pink Twins sent me a applescript which is able to read a movie, set it to loop mode and then present it at full screen.
Here is a slight mod:
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
open file “pb:Users:hc:Desktop:new.mov”
set looping of movie “new.mov” to true
rewind movie “new.mov”
present movie “new.mov”
end tell
you might still have to add the delays if you are doing this at startup, though.
Thanks, jusu!
November 24, 2007 at 22:04
Here is a merge of the two.. this way you don’t have to specify the full path with volume name and user folder, and/or load the quicktime movie separately in startup items.. just name it movie.mov and put in /Users/Shared
on run
set unixpath to “/Users/Shared/movie.mov”
set macfile to (POSIX file unixpath)
delay 10
tell application “QuickTime Player”
activate
delay 5
open file macfile
set looping of movie 1 to true
rewind movie 1
present movie 1 scale screen
end tell
end run