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For Museum Video installation, how to auto start QT and loop full screen?

i've got a .mov file on a mac mini connected to a projector for a museum installation. how can i ---
A: startup the machine on a timer? (so far i am assuming power saver scheduling prefs best for this?)
B: Get Quicktime to launch at startup and automatically play selected .mov at full screen and loop indefinitely?

Many Thanks!!! Need answers quickly. - KF

mini, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Museum Installation

Posted on Jul 27, 2007 7:09 PM

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Jul 27, 2007 8:03 PM in response to K3N_NYC

Open the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and paste in the following:

tell app "QuickTime Player"
open movie "movie"
set looping of document 1 to true
set scale of document 1 to screen
play document 1
end

Provide the path to the movie between the quote marks on the second line, using : characters to specify folders in the path. Save this script as an application and add it to the list of login items for your account in the Accounts pane of System Preferences; next, set that account to log in automatically. You may want to use present instead of play in the fifth line.

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Jul 27, 2007 8:28 PM in response to Niel

Or...

If you have Quicktime Pro...
Open the Quicktime movie.
Menu-->View-->Loop.
Menu-->Quicktime Player-->Preferences-->Full Screen...set the movie to either play, same size or fill screen...
Menu-->Window-->Show Movie Properties-->Presentation Tab-->Check-->Automatically play movie when open and Enter fullscreen mode when open.

Do a SAVE AS...Save as a reference movie...place in the same folder as you original movie. Drag the reference movie into the dock. Then click and hold on the movie icon in the dock...pick Open at Login.

Open the Energy Saver Pref...Set the time for the computer to start up and shut down...

Dec 12, 2007 1:45 PM in response to jadl77

My Mac Mini - 2 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM playing a hd 720 mov in quicktime 7.2 or 7.3 does stop unpredictable after hours or days.
Apple store sugests 1 G extra ram. It may work, but is absurd, as an old G4 450 does the job perfectly for an other movie.

for the moment I switched to my G5 dual, but that is a bad solution.

How did Jadi solve this problem?
anyone else?

For Museum Video installation, how to auto start QT and loop full screen?

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