[Luke Cage]

Ref : http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs...layer-play

windowed : [opt] bool - true=play video windowed, false=play users preference.(default)

So how and where does the xbmc.Player().play() method pick up the user's preference when I pass false to the windowed argument ?

Code:

Plays the movie windowed in the small videowindow control of the popup dialog window :

xbmc.Player().play(url, item, True)
OR :
xbmc.Player().play(url, item, windowed=True)

Code:

Always plays the movie in full screen :

xbmc.Player().play(url, item, False)
OR :
xbmc.Player().play(url, item, windowed=False)
OR :
xbmc.Player().play(url, item)

Also, are there docs specific to version 17 of Kodi ?

[Luke Cage]

I had to take a quick peek at the code (which I was trying to avoid).
Looks like Kodi doesn't look for user's preference.
In MediaSettings.h and MediaSettings.cpp there is one private property m_videoStartWindowed which is only accessed by the getter and setter DoesVideoStartWindowed() and SetVideoStartWindowed() :

Code:

bool DoesVideoStartWindowed() const { return m_videoStartWindowed; }
void SetVideoStartWindowed(bool windowed) { m_videoStartWindowed = windowed; }

There is absolutely no attempt to access any user settings for windowed or full screen playback.
I only had a 3 minute peek. But I'm pretty sure.

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