DVDPedia and VLC

[iprecious]

Hi @ all,

I tried all day long to solve the problem myself, but I failed:

I've got all my DVDs saved on my external HD in the respective VIDEO_TS-folders.

I linked those files to DVDPedia and enabled the "Expert" prefs via Terminal.

Still, VLC only opens up the VIDEO_TS-folder quiting with the yellow exclamation mark.

I also tried to enable the VLC-script in the DVDPedia-package (Contents/Frameworks/.../DVDPlayer.applescript.

No success.

I have the impression that DVDPedia only passes the VTS-folder to VLC as if I would right-click the folder and chose open with VLC which also doesn't work.


Thanks for any help

[Conor]

It does pass only the VIDEO_TS folder but that is what VLC needs. You can try running the script directly in Script Editor program with one of your movie paths to see if it works outside of DVDpedia (get the movie path from the links tab of the edit window and remove the prefix file://). The actual AppleScript executed is:

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tell application "VLC"
activate
open file (POSIX file "/Volumes/External Drive/Movies/MyMovie/VIDEO_TS") as alias
delay 8
set theTitled to titled of window 1
if theTitled is true then
fullscreen
end if
end tell

I also tried to enable the VLC-script in the DVDPedia-package (Contents/Frameworks/.../DVDPlayer.applescript.

In this case be sure to switch the preference back to DVD Player with "defaults write com.bruji.dvdpedia "VLC for VIDEO_TS" -bool NO". As DVDpedia uses this file only when doing DVD Player, he won't know you commented out the DVD Player part and enabled the VLC section. With the VLC preference the script is hard coded inside the program.

If you continue to have problems let me know the exact path for a movie and errors from both VLC and Script Editor if any, so that I can try to replicate it.

[iprecious]

Hi Conor,


thanks very much for your quick reply.

I'm not at home at the moment, but tried the script in a similar situation: VTS-folder on an external HD and for some reason, it works.

I have no clue why those problems occured when I last tested it, but I guess the problem was/is on the vlc-side rather then DVDPedia.

I'll let you know as soon as I have tested it again at home.


Thanks again

joh