-- a quick way to play a DVD that has been saved to the hard drive -- adapted from a script found in the comments of this article: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050924210643297 -- Instructions for use: -- 1. Paste this script into Script Editor and save as an application bundle to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder/Play DVD Folder -- 2. Control-click and drag it to the top of a finder window so it appears in every finder window. -- 3. Next, we'll give our script the DVD Player icon to make it's use more intuitive by entering these commands in Terminal: -- $ cd ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder/Play\ DVD\ Folder.app/Contents/Resources/ -- $ rm droplet.icns -- $ cp /Applications/DVD\ Player.app/Contents/Resources/app.icns droplet.icns -- $ touch ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder/Play\ DVD\ Folder.app -- 4. In the Finder, drag a DVD Folder onto the "Play DVD Folder at the top of that finder window". -- 5. Enjoy the movie. :-) -- script was opened by click in toolbar on run tell application "Finder" try set currFolder to (folder of the front window as string) on error display dialog "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & the error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1 end try end tell CD_to(currFolder, false) end run -- script run by draging file/folder to icon on open (theList) set newWindow to false repeat with thePath in theList set thePath to thePath as string if not (thePath ends with ":") then set x to the offset of ":" in (the reverse of every character of thePath) as string set thePath to (characters 1 thru -(x) of thePath) as string end if CD_to(thePath, newWindow) set newWindow to true -- create window for any other files/folders end repeat return end open -- open and play the movie on CD_to(theDir, newWindow) try tell application "DVD Player" activate if theDir ends with "VIDEO_TS:" then set videoTS to theDir as alias else set videoTS to theDir & "VIDEO_TS:" as alias end if open VIDEO_TS videoTS set viewer full screen to true play dvd end tell on error the error_message number the error_number display dialog "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & the error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1 end try end CD_to