Eject DVDs with Keyspan Digital Media Remote

Mar 02, '05 07:24:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I use my PowerBook as a poor man's DVD player and HDTV combination. To that end, I use the wonderful Keyspan DMR to control the DVD Player software from the couch. The only downfall of the DMR is the included remote's lack of an eject button.

I have, however, reprogrammed the remote's 'Toggle Application' button -- which is completely useless while watching DVDs -- to run an AppleScript I have written. This AppleScript will quit DVD Player and eject the DVD. I thought that other people using the DMR might want a way to eject DVDs, and so, would like to share the script. Here it is:

tell application "DVD Player"
  quit
end tell

tell application "Finder"
  set the_items to (items of the desktop whose kind is "volume")
  repeat with i from 1 to count of the_items
    if folder "VIDEO_TS" of item i of the_items exists then
      eject item i of the_items
    end if
  end repeat
end tell
I should think that the documentation included with the DMR should indicate how to program a button to run an AppleScript.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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