#Mac media player opens on startup install
#Mac media player opens on startup code

#Mac media player opens on startup install

If you are stuck using Mac’s for whatever reason, you can also install a remote manager like Teamviewer and do whatever reset/screen adjustment manually from any other internet-connected machine.Ģ. This ends up being much simpler than the solution in the post above. Lately I’ve been making video player apps in OpenFrameworks that autolaunch and do screen detection. As I’ve gotten more into doing custom video installations, I’ve looked at other options like playing off a Raspberry Pi, which works pretty well as long as you don’t need it to loop absolutely seamlessly or have remote access. This is going down a path of making a more bloated program, which you seem to want to avoid. You might be able to run a Detect Displays before deciding whether to launch VLC fullscreen. Hi Mathis, I don’t think I’ve encountered these specific problems but here are some ideas.ġ. Sorry to bother you with these questions, but maybe you have encountered similar problems and know a quick fix. I could get rid of the mouse with some apple script moving it to the bottom with key strokes since it is out of the projection wall, but this is not very smart. If everything is turned on and I do a restart, the mouse hides. Again, only with disconnected projector on startup. I used to have the mouse cursor problem, and now I am having it again in the described setting: in those cases in which the autostart works, the mouse cursor does not hide. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, I think. If I restart with projector on, everything is fine, but this is no option. This used to be different, but I have the impression that you cannot rely completely on what VLC does when no display is attached. Even worse, the video is played somewhere in the background, not visible at all. when the computers (not accessible) start in the morning with connected beamers (HDMI) being on standby, the auto-fullscreen does not work. In fact, I used this exact method for quite a while in installations, and it worked pretty well.īut now I encountered two issues that drive me crazy:ġ. Trouble is, VLC seems to override the automatic shutdown methods, so in order to shut down properly, we need to tell VLC to stop playing and quit before shutting down/rebooting. You can usually set this up by using a simple cron command that will shut down the machine at a given time, and/or OSX’s built-in Energy Saver Schedule (under System Prefs -> Energy Saver -> Schedule… ). You may also want to have the machine automatically shut down (at night for instance), then reboot in the morning. To autolaunch on startup, go to System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Login Items and add your app. To export as an application, choose File->Export and set the File Format to Application. change /path/to/your/video-file.mov to the actual file path of the video you’d like to autolaunch.your copy of the VLC app may be in a place other than /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC.

#Mac media player opens on startup code

Open a new doc in AppleScript Editor, and paste in the code above.