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I added a media player to Steam as a non-Steam game and changed its name to "watching movie". When I launch it from the games library it changes my status. But I want to make this change automatically everytime I play a movie. Is there anyway to do this?
P.S.: I don't want to change it to the movie's name that is currently playing. I just want to change it to "watching movie" when I start a video with that player.
No - this is not possible. Unless you launch an application or game from your Steam library, your Steam status will not update to reflect that the application (in this instance, your movie player) is running.
It is also not possible to create a custom status message on Steam. Adding your own games (or in your case, your media player) is pretty much as far as the customisation of "what you're doing" goes. This is something that has been requested as a feature more than once in the past, for example here on the Steam forums.
When you add a non-steam application/game to Steam, it will update under the "Now playing" heading, so if you renamed it to "Watching movie" when you load the app it will say "Now playing: Watching movie" or similar. Once you end the application, the status will just go back on "Online".
As for leaving the media player running, and having Steam automatically update your status depending on wether it is currently playing or not, I do not believe that is supported.
