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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player System 10.6
Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 7:30AM PDT • Contributed by: seanm5
As most people are probably aware, the new QuickTime X Player in Snow Leopard has no preferences. One of the preferences I greatly missed was to automatically start playing a movie when it was opened.

Well I'm happy to say you can re-enable that behavior with the following Terminal command: 
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGPlayMovieOnOpen 1
The movie will now start when opened without you having to press the Play button.
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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: shakerben on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 9:14AM PDT
Anyone know a way to restore the autoplay when switching to full screen?
I don't want movies to always autoplay but am really used to autoplay when I cmd+F

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: robelkin on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 2:12PM PDT
Second this, I tried a couple of variations on this hint to provide this functionality but to no avail.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: NoName on Fri, Sep 4 2009 at 7:23AM PDT
Megabyte Computing made a PrefPane for "QuickTime Player X"

more info here: http://megabytecomp.com/apps.aspx

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: DCJ001 on Sat, Sep 5 2009 at 2:30PM PDT
I installed this QuickTime Player X preference pane. It appears to work great, except that it resets to its default settings, for me, when I reboot.

Anyone else having this problem? I sent a message to the people who made it, hoping for a solution from them.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: DCJ001 on Sat, Sep 5 2009 at 5:50PM PDT
Actually, it appears that one's setting are maintained:

"The only bug I ran into was that the menu options reset once you quit System Preferences, but it doesn't reset the changes you made (it just looks like they are changed back, but they really aren't)."

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8402989&postcount=37

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: pendraggon87 on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 12:28PM PDT
How did you find that preference? Running strings does not seem to come up with anything.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: leamanc on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 9:08PM PDT
Not the hint author here, but I imagine he just used an older "defaults" command that was known to work in previous versions of QuickTime.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: DCJ001 on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 1:51PM PDT
But, how would one keep QuickTime X in full screen mode when switching to another application and back? I've already reported this to Apple. But is there a Terminal fix to maintain full screen in QuickTime X at all times?

Thanks.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: dggraphics on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 4:30PM PDT
Full screen playback works when switching to another app, only if the movie is played fullscreen on a secondary monitor, weird

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: seanm5 on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 6:38PM PDT
Try this Terminal command to keep QTX in full-screen while switching apps: 
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGFullScreenExitOnAppSwitch 0
if it doesn't work or you want to restore the default behavior then here's the command to do that: 
defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGFullScreenExitOnAppSwitch


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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: DCJ001 on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 7:13PM PDT
Looks good.

Thanks.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: iampivot on Thu, Sep 3 2009 at 4:25PM PDT
Im desperately trying to find an option to turn OFF autoplay for embedded videos in safari, that uses the new <video> tag. Anyknow know how to do that?

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: rmanke on Wed, Sep 23 2009 at 6:06PM PDT
Thanks for the tip!

Now, if only someone had a tip to restore the ability to double-click on a video to make it toggle full screen mode.

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10.6: Enable autoplay of movies in QuickTime Player
Authored by: elipari on Fri, Sep 25 2009 at 12:48AM PDT
How about for the ability for Quicktime X to automatically quit full screen mode at the end of a video?
All it does at the end of videos now is stop with a black screen and you have to manually Command+F to get out.

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