TapTo for Windows - How to launch media

Start Videos with .bat files on Tapto Windows (Beta) with VLC Media Player.

Requirements:

- Make sure you have VLC Media Player installed

- Tapto for windows installed

- Video files in desired location

- Tapto.life app installed on iOS or Android

Notes:

This tutorial is written to launch a video with VLC Media Player, other players might work too but may use a different command

Keep in mind that every video file will have its own .bat file so it’s recommended to organize them properly.

Moving your video files to a different location after creating the bat files will result in non-working bat files so keep this in mind before you make any .bat files.

Tutorial:

Open notepad (or a similar text editor)

Copy the location of the VLC Media player executable (the default location on x64 windows systems is: C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC)

Paste the location to notepad and add vlc.exe at the end of the path, it should look similar to this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe

Now add a “ to the beginning and the end of the path followed by the spacebar like this :

“C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe”

Copy and paste the location of your video file and add the filename (and its extension) and like before add the “ to the beginning and the end of the path.

your .bat file should now look similar to this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "E:\Videos\movie.mkv"

Now add a start command, fullscreen command and exit command to the paths like this:

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "E:\Videos\movie.mkv" --fullscreen

exit

Now save the file you’ve created in notepad and change the extension to .bat

you should end up with something like this :

Movie.bat

Try starting your bat file to check if everything works as desired.

Please make sure it’s not Movie.bat.txt because that won’t work.

Before you can flash the path to the bat file to your nfc card we need to add the location of the bat file to the .ini file of tapto in order to allow tapto to launch this file.

Open the tapto.ini file and under [launchers] add allow_file = PATHTOBAT It should look similar to this:

allow_file = G:\Tapto\Movies\Movie.bat

Now open your tapto.life app and flash the the path to your bat file as a text string:

G:\Tapto\Movies\Movie.bat

Your NFC card is now ready to start your movie !