Req: Ability to autoplay.

[ShaAlexander]

Hi there,

We use your script to show information on a few screens across the map, could you give us a setting to play preset videos on a server startup? So we don't have to manually start them one by one?

Thanks!

[kibook]

You can currently set screens to autoplay something using the Config.defaultMediaPlayers list. However, at this time showing the same media on multiple screens is not implemented very efficiently, as it connects to and loads that same media multiple times, once for each screen, rather than sharing one connection between the screens. Being able to link multiple screens to one media player is something I'd definitely like to add.

In the meantime, there was some discussion about this in #4. I have an alternative solution where I rolled my own kind of mini-pmms resource to play the same stream of Christmas music on multiple phonographs throughout the map: https://github.com/kibook/redm-xmas. It's not an ideal solution, and adding it to pmms would allow for taking advantage of many of pmms more advanced features, but it might work for you in the short term.

[ShaAlexander]

You can currently set screens to autoplay something using the Config.defaultMediaPlayers list. However, at this time showing the same media on multiple screens is not implemented very efficiently, as it connects to and loads that same media multiple times, once for each screen, rather than sharing one connection between the screens. Being able to link multiple screens to one media player is something I'd definitely like to add.

In the meantime, there was some discussion about this in #4. I have an alternative solution where I rolled my own kind of mini-pmms resource to play the same stream of Christmas music on multiple phonographs throughout the map: https://github.com/kibook/redm-xmas. It's not an ideal solution, and adding it to pmms would allow for taking advantage of many of pmms more advanced features, but it might work for you in the short term.

I’m very grateful for your respond! That’s a good point you’ve added about the sync between screens. Actually I kinda use that in my advantage since we use 4 big displays in on that big square thing at legion park. They all display the same content and I only start one, however the other screens they indeed need to be set manually.

For music at legion I just hide a radio somewhere underneath a statue. Clever trick if I might say so.

But yeah, if you can do a server wide functionality, it could be able to replace our air raid system. We now use hypnomena for that since I can start them all independently without the need of being nearby.

So I’m very excited to see the next build. 🙌 cheers 🍻