how would i go about doing so? no tv. having a new years party and want to run a countdown video on the pc. how would i set it up to play automatically at a certain time, regardless of whats going on on the pc at the time, as i may not be in control of my faculties enough to initiate it myself?
Use the Task Scheduler to launch your video player application. How you specify which video file to play depends on which app you intend to use, and what OS you’re running. More details will get you a more detailed answer.
Until more info: WinXP task scheduler.
A perfectly timed countdown may be difficult. It takes a few seconds for the player program to load, which will vary depending on what else is running at the time. You can reduce this time by bringing up the video player before the task starts.
Go here.
Make a countdown clock to the end of the year.
Paste the HTML into a webpage.
Bring the page up on your PC, then enlarge as big as possible.
Bingo. And it’s fairly well synchronized.
for some reason windows task scheduler wont run any tasks… and even if it would, what video player would auto play a video on launch? running windows xp pro, trying to run an avi file.
I find VLC is a great little video player that will play pretty much any media, avi, mov, wmv, etc
I just tested it and seems to work fine starting automatically and whatnot. Go through the add new scheduled task dialog, select vlc as the task to run, at the end select open advanced properties. Change the link to look like this:
“C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe” “C:\Folder\file.avi”
somewhere in the options of VLC there is a checkbox 'start video in fullscreeen, might need to check that too.
You could probably do the same with windows media player FWIW.
In the scheduler menu bar, click on advanced/view log. Look for "***** Most recent entry is above this line ***** ". If Windows attempted to run the task but there was an error, some reason will be there. But there won’t be anything there if you made an error such that the time the task was to run hasn’t occurred yet.
Probably whatever one you used to manually play the video. If Windows Media Player, definitely. Suda showed what the syntax would look like. But you only have to specify full screen if that’s what you want.