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Is it possible to get video library's view mode changed automatically when audio starts?

I have modified myvideonav.xml to have these two lines:

<onload condition="Player.HasAudio">Container.SetViewMode(50)</onload>
<onload condition="!Player.HasAudio">Container.SetViewMode(53)</onload>

Now view mode is changed to right view mode ruled by the state of audio but only when I enter in video library. View mode is not changed at all if I'm already in video library. Is it just so simple that I need to replace onload with another parameter or do I need more complex solution?

The point of this is that I want to change view mode to fanart mode when the theme of the movie is played and back to panel mode when theme's not playing. I have tvtunes plugin playing the themes. Panel mode is excellent when browsing movie titles but sadly it hides beautiful fanart behind dvd covers. So when focus is on a movie, I want fanart to be as much exposed as possible.

Another method could be that instead of using audio to trigger changing of view mode I used lacking of user input by operator. If nothing was changed after 5 seconds, view mode would be changed to fanart. And back to panel mode when operator does something.
Transparency is my skin if that information is important.