Monday, May 4, 2009

How to use YAT

  • Start YAT program. It will show two windows: a Player and a Controller.
  • Move the Player to your TV or the other monitor
  • On the Controller, click [Full Screen Window] to expand the Player. Resize the Player if you like.
  • To play YouTube videos: drag/drop the URL from your browser address bar to the Controller. Or drag your saved youtube links/files to the Controller.
  • Click Play/Next to watch it on your TV. Set how the videos be played from the Controller, no need to move your mouse to the TV.
  • Options:
    "Play added item immediately" - stop current video and play the new item right away
    "Fit/Full Screen" - set video to fit the whole window/fullscreen
    "Standard" - set video to original size
    "HD" - use HD or HQ format if available

Friday, May 1, 2009

YAT - first version (maybe the last)

Here it is. The program that does what I want: Playing YouTube videos on my secondary display and Control what to show from my main monitor. No interruption! I can search my next karaoke song while friends are singing and watching it on big screen!!


(download, unzip then run setup.exe)

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Solution?

We've been watching a lot of YouTube since hooking up TV to the computer's secondary display. Watching YouTube in fullscreen mode is great but it gets interrupted so easily it's annoying. I googled how people make the fullscreen stay but don't like those solutions.

So I'm writing my own program now...