Create additional DVD Player keyboard shortcuts
Oct 18, '05 07:38:00AM
Contributed by: ra5ul
Do you miss angle, audio track, and subtitle control from the keyboard in Apple's DVD Player (version 4.6.1)? This is how I've fixed it...
- Create three new AppleScripts. Here's the first one:
tell application "dvd player"
set angle to (angle + 1) mod (available angles + 1)
end tell
Make the next two scripts just like the above, but replace angle with audio track and subtitle in the new scripts.
- Drop the files in ~/Library -> Application Support -> DVD Player -> Scripts. When you re-laucnh DVD player, you'll find they've automatically been assigned to Command-Option and (depending on what else you may have there) 0 to 9.
- Use the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Prefernces panel and change these shortcuts to something less cumbersome, as outlined in this hint.
So, for instance, if you choose Command-S for subtitles, each keystroke will cycle through the DVD's available subtitles (including none), like in VLC Player.
[robg adds: I don't have any DVDs with angle adjustments, but the other two scripts seemed to work as described.]
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