General Information
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:26 am
MP4 Player & Downloader
• See the Chromium WebGadget for a modern solution.
• Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support.
• Registry is temporarily modified to access HTML5: FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION.
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• Resizable window.
• Full screen mode.
• Save video downloaded from URL.
• Save snapshot of current frame.
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Size constraints have been hard-coded for downloading MP4 files; does not affect video playback:
➤ 32 Bit Compiler / Binary: Approximately 30 MB maximum file size (greater than 21.9 MB untested).
➤ 64 Bit Compiler / Binary: Approximately 200 MB maximum file size (greater than 126 MB untested).
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The following Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) service is used for both locally loaded MP4 files and URLs.
➤ CORS Anywhere
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Player Window
➤ F1 Key: Show/Hide the Shortcut menu.
➤ F2 Key: Open an MP4 video file; path or URL.
➤ F3 Key: Open the Thumbnail Viewer.
➤ F4 Key: Save a snapshot of the current frame.
➤ F8 Key: Set/Reposition the "minimized" thumbnail player.
➤ F12 Key: Reload the default start video.
➤ Esc Key: Exit full screen, Close thumbnail player / Close window.
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Command Parameters
1. Create a Shortcut from the executable.
2. From Properties > Shortcut > Target add the parameters.
3. Parameters use the following strict format: [parameter]=[value] [parameter]=[value] ...
➤ Spaces are only allowed (required) to separate parameters.
➤ Quotes are allowed but not necessary.
➤ Syntax is case insensitive.
➤ MP4 | MP4Video : Set a start video when the player is opened.
➤ MIN | Minimize : Open the window then minimize (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ MAX | Maximize : Open the window then maximize (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ X : Open the window at x location.
➤ Y : Open the window at y location.
➤ W | Width : Set the starting window width.
➤ H | Height : Set the starting window height.
➤ MW | MinWidth : Set the minimum window width.
➤ MH | MinHeight : Set the minimum window height.
➤ FS | FullScreen : Open the window in full screen mode (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ FSX | FullScreenX : Open the window in full screen at x location.
➤ FSY | FullScreenY : Open the window in full screen at y location.
➤ FSW | FullScreenWidth : Set the full screen width.
➤ FSH | FullScreenHeight : Set the full screen height.
➤ AP | AutoPlay : Auto play a newly loaded video (DEFAULT: 1 || 0).
➤ LV | LoopVideo : Loop the loaded video continuously (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ SV | SaveVideo : Save the video downloaded from a URL (DEFAULT: 1 || 0).
➤ PO | PlayerOnly : Play the video without fully downloading (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ TR | ThumbnailRatio : Thumbnail save-size ratio (DEFAULT: 0.25 || 0.25 - 1).
• See the Chromium WebGadget for a modern solution.
• Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support.
• Registry is temporarily modified to access HTML5: FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• Resizable window.
• Full screen mode.
• Save video downloaded from URL.
• Save snapshot of current frame.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Size constraints have been hard-coded for downloading MP4 files; does not affect video playback:
➤ 32 Bit Compiler / Binary: Approximately 30 MB maximum file size (greater than 21.9 MB untested).
➤ 64 Bit Compiler / Binary: Approximately 200 MB maximum file size (greater than 126 MB untested).
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
The following Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) service is used for both locally loaded MP4 files and URLs.
➤ CORS Anywhere
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Player Window
➤ F1 Key: Show/Hide the Shortcut menu.
➤ F2 Key: Open an MP4 video file; path or URL.
➤ F3 Key: Open the Thumbnail Viewer.
➤ F4 Key: Save a snapshot of the current frame.
➤ F8 Key: Set/Reposition the "minimized" thumbnail player.
➤ F12 Key: Reload the default start video.
➤ Esc Key: Exit full screen, Close thumbnail player / Close window.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Command Parameters
1. Create a Shortcut from the executable.
2. From Properties > Shortcut > Target add the parameters.
3. Parameters use the following strict format: [parameter]=[value] [parameter]=[value] ...
➤ Spaces are only allowed (required) to separate parameters.
➤ Quotes are allowed but not necessary.
➤ Syntax is case insensitive.
➤ MP4 | MP4Video : Set a start video when the player is opened.
➤ MIN | Minimize : Open the window then minimize (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ MAX | Maximize : Open the window then maximize (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ X : Open the window at x location.
➤ Y : Open the window at y location.
➤ W | Width : Set the starting window width.
➤ H | Height : Set the starting window height.
➤ MW | MinWidth : Set the minimum window width.
➤ MH | MinHeight : Set the minimum window height.
➤ FS | FullScreen : Open the window in full screen mode (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ FSX | FullScreenX : Open the window in full screen at x location.
➤ FSY | FullScreenY : Open the window in full screen at y location.
➤ FSW | FullScreenWidth : Set the full screen width.
➤ FSH | FullScreenHeight : Set the full screen height.
➤ AP | AutoPlay : Auto play a newly loaded video (DEFAULT: 1 || 0).
➤ LV | LoopVideo : Loop the loaded video continuously (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ SV | SaveVideo : Save the video downloaded from a URL (DEFAULT: 1 || 0).
➤ PO | PlayerOnly : Play the video without fully downloading (DEFAULT: 0 || 1).
➤ TR | ThumbnailRatio : Thumbnail save-size ratio (DEFAULT: 0.25 || 0.25 - 1).
