Play videos in a fullscreen window that sits on top of everything else. Great for facial animations or user messages.
How to add the Full Screen Video Player robot skill
- Load the most recent release of ARC (Get ARC).
- Press the Project tab from the top menu bar in ARC.
- Press Add Robot Skill from the button ribbon bar in ARC.
- Choose the Display category tab.
- 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
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.
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");
This is the code command:
The estrange thing is that if I open an empty ARC file and I just include the script (python) and the skill, it works, but when I put exactly the same script in my main ARC file with the other skills the problem happens.
Just to complement I am working now in WIN 11.
What if you remove the robot skill from your main ARC file. Then re-add it. Does that fix it?
it almost looks like a corrupted configuration file somehow
Yes it seems a corrupted configuration file, I did it multiple times but without success, is it possible that any other Skill can interfere with this one?
Can you try this
remove the skill
save the project
load the project
add the skill
Ok I will do it and let you know. The results Thanks.
HI, I made the suggested steps but still unfortunately it is not working.
In Ez script
ControlCommand("Full Screen Video Player", "Play Video", "C:\Users\ATOM X\Documents\ATOMX\faces\3Atom_bravo.mp4")
or your directory is wrong where the 3Atom_bravo.mp4 is located
Mine works fine
Thanks! . Yes when I try with a fresh ARC file It works, but doing the same with the ARC file with the rest of my Skills it stops working. I will try to rebuild my full ARC file (merging the skills) by parts to see when it starts to have the problem.