Joe Bell

I'm creating a simple .mov playback patch for a video screening at Tate Britain (not the most amazing technical feat, but bearing in mind the auspicious venue I want to do an appropriately good job).

There is a film to be shown that although authorised to be shown, has the condition attached that it must not be extracted from the DVD. I know this is lunacy and that the obvious solution is to convert it, but it can not be done, so is there a way to trigger a DVD playback? I read a post about executing an applescript - is this the only way? (I've not used apple script before)

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> I read a post about executing an applescript - is this the only way?

Don't know if its the only way, but certainly a valid one. Other 

possibilities are within jitter, to find the file to play could be done 

with a simple path to the DVD. The experts for these questions though, 

lurk around in the jitter formum, I'd search the archives...

Joseph Bell schrieb:
> I read a post about executing an applescript - is this the only way?
> (I've not used apple script before)

Don't know if its the only way, but certainly a valid one. Other 
possibilities are within jitter, to find the file to play could be done 
with a simple path to the DVD. The experts for these questions though, 
lurk around in the jitter formum, I'd search the archives...

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For DVDs that are burnt as data disks, you can just read the files as

if they were on a hard drive. however, for an authored dvd, i think

applescript is the only way to go. you can call applescript through

the shell object using the osascript command. something as simple as

osascript -e 'tell application "DVD Player" to play dvd'

>> I read a post about executing an applescript - is this the only way?

For DVDs that are burnt as data disks, you can just read the files as
if they were on a hard drive.  however, for an authored dvd, i think
applescript is the only way to go.  you can call applescript through
the shell object using the osascript command.  something as simple as
this could work:

>> I read a post about executing an applescript - is this the only way?
>> (I've not used apple script before)


Thanks for the suggestion - I got the external and am now delving into the applescript. Any more advice or help from anyone would be much appreciated

I have got to the stage of activating DVD Player but cannot get past that stage and make it play/stop.

There was a post made by Philippe OLLIVIER that has excellent Applescript control, but I dont quite understand the intricacies of using DVD PLayer & Applescript, and still cant get mine to work.

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I think it is as simple as 'play dvd' and 'pause dvd'

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Joseph Bell wrote:

> I have got to the stage of activating DVD Player but cannot get past that stage and make it play/stop.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Joseph Bell  wrote:
>
> I have got to the stage of activating DVD Player but cannot get past that stage and make it play/stop.
>


sorry "to play dvd" and "to pause dvd"
Also, increase the delay time :

Thanks so much for the personalised assistance - now I can go ahead and perform this automated loop of mov & DVD files. I wonder what ways there are to do it within Jitter...

https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=148784&rid=6985&S=5f993771ff2e6507b26a3aacb6e490c9#msg_148784

Thanks so much for the personalised assistance - now I can go ahead and perform this automated loop of mov & DVD files. I wonder what ways there are to do it within Jitter... 

https://cycling74.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=148784&rid=6985&S=5f993771ff2e6507b26a3aacb6e490c9#msg_148784


I"m in a quandry again, with simple matters I suspect. I cannot work out how to specify the file path so that I can load up a DVD VIDEO_TS file into DVD player through apple script.

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Possible to trigger a DVD file from MAX?