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Full Screen Video Player

by Synthiam

Play videos in a fullscreen window that sits on top of everything else. Great for facial animations or user messages.

Requires ARC v9 (Updated 12/10/2023)

How to add the Full Screen Video Player robot skill

  1. Load the most recent release of ARC (Get ARC).
  2. Press the Project tab from the top menu bar in ARC.
  3. Press Add Robot Skill from the button ribbon bar in ARC.
  4. Choose the Display category tab.
  5. Press the Full Screen Video Player icon to add the robot skill to your project.

Don't have a robot yet?

Follow the Getting Started Guide to build a robot and use the Full Screen Video Player robot skill.


How to use the Full Screen Video Player robot skill

Play videos in a fullscreen window that sits on top of everything else. Excellent for facial animations or user messages.

Use ControlCommands to specify videos to play fullscreen. The ESC key can be pressed while a video is playing to cancel the video. Once the ESC key is pressed, this robot skill will not play another video until the Pause New Playback checkbox has been unchecked.

Robot Skill Main Window

User-inserted image

  1. This checkbox will be checked when the ESC key is pressed during video playback. This feature is to prevent emergency loops that continually play videos. When ESC is pressed, this checkbox is checked. No further video playback can be done until this is unchecked by either ControlCommand or manually.

  2. The logging information for errors and activity

Javascript Example

This example will play a video and demonstrate the ControlCommand syntax.


// Begin playing a full video screen
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Play Video", "C:\\Users\\dj\\Videos\\Screen Recorder\\637427907140785293.wmv");

// wait for 3 seconds while the video is playing
sleep(3000);

// Start playing another video
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Play Video", "C:\\Users\\dj\\Videos\\Screen Recorder\\637430717372916488.wmv");

// wait for 2 seconds while the video is playing
sleep(2000);

// Pause the video
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Pause Video");

// Wait for 2 seconds while the video is paused
sleep(2000);

// Resume playing the video
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Resume Video");

// wait for 3 seconds while the video has been resumed
sleep(3000);

// Stop the video and close the video player window
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Stop Video And Close");

Resolution Scaling

There is a known issue with the 3rd party video library where the video will only display on a portion of the screen. This issue is raised when the Window's scaling resolution is set to a value other than 100%. The workaround for this issue is to set the Window's scaling resolution to 100%.


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Australia
#17  

Just tested it with SD and HD and same result - quarter screen only. Tested with MPG, MP4, WMV and same result. Very puzzling. Might try it on a different device.

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Synthiam
#18  

Hmmm. It almost looks like windows wasn’t able to render the whole video - as if it stopped part way while drawing the video box. Let me see if there’s something I can do on our end.

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Australia
#19  

I tried playing a jpeg image and got a quarter screen also. Interesting.

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Australia
#20  

I tried playing a jpeg image and got a quarter screen also. Interesting. Also tried reinstalling the plugin.

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Synthiam
#21  

I’ll be looking at it this weekend. There’s no staff during the weekend so I’ll get it running for ya:)

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Synthiam
#22  

See if this new update v6 resolves the issue

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Australia
#23  

I noticed the plugin had been updated. But the problem remains. In the meantime, I am utilising the DisplayPopup plugin as I can display Emoji using the GoogleEmoji font.

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Synthiam
#24  

Oh, can you tell me what the value is for your display scaling? It’s where the video resolution can be set. It’s a number as a percentage.

we will get to the bottom of this - although it’s a real puzzle!