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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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#41   — Edited

V7 updated. We have updated this robot skill to capture and handle this error. We don't know how to replicate the error. However, we are now capturing it.

Colombia
#42  

Thanks. Here is the error message.

System.ArgumentException: Invalid handle pointer.
Parameter name: handle
   at Mpv.NET.API.Mpv.set_Handle(IntPtr value) in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\API\Mpv.cs:line 41
   at Mpv.NET.API.Mpv.InitialiseMpv() in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\API\Mpv.cs:line 95
   at Mpv.NET.API.Mpv..ctor(String dllPath) in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\API\Mpv.cs:line 59
   at Mpv.NET.Player.MpvPlayer.InitialiseMpv(String libMpvPath) in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\Player\MpvPlayer.cs:line 546
   at Mpv.NET.Player.MpvPlayer.Initialise() in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\Player\MpvPlayer.cs:line 524
   at Mpv.NET.Player.MpvPlayer..ctor(IntPtr hwnd, String libMpvPath) in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\Mpv.NET\Player\MpvPlayer.cs:line 518
   at FullScreenVideoPlayer.FormVideoPlayer.PlayVideo(String filename, Boolean loop) in C:\My Documents\SVN\Developer - Controls\In Production\Full Screen Video Player\MY_PROJECT_NAME\FormVideoPlayer.cs:line 61

I hope this helps.

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Synthiam
#43   — Edited

I can't quite understand what's going on with this 3rd party library error. Are you sure the same file plays with a new empty project? The error appears that the robot skill is unable to play the video file.

Colombia
#44  

Hi,  yes and I tried also with mp4 and avi formats. It is very strange.

Not sure if it is something related with WIN 11 as it worked well when i had Win 10.

PRO
Synthiam
#45   — Edited

We use win11 as well so that’s not it. Are there multiple copies of this robot skill in the project?

Colombia
#46  

No just 1 instance. But te ARC file has a lot of skills. I was also ensuring that any other script was not running during the test.

PRO
Synthiam
#47  

Is there a way that I can see your project to test with?

Colombia
#48  

Yes , please let me know how do you want I share it. I will be available in a couple of hours to do that.

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