Video Playback repeats

Hi,

I work at a computer store and I have the following problem: We have these computers out on demo, and they are constantly playing dvds. What I would like them to do is that the computer would keep on playing the videos back and forth without me actually have to go there and click play everytime it ended. On other laptops like Toshibas and Sony's all i had to do is just right click, repeat, done. But I have yet to find a way to do it on the macs. Please help me out. Thanks in advance, much appreciated.

Jokkon

 

VLC Player will repeat a DVD I believe. I am not sure about DVD Player, but I don't see any way right off the bat. Perhaps an AppleScript. But VLC will do it.

 

Hi, thanks for the reply, what is this applescript that you speak of? I'll try VLC and give it a shot thank you

 

i just tried VLC, but when I go repeat all, after the film finishes it just goes back to the main menu. I wonder if there is a fucntion where you can set point A and point B and then the player would just keeps on looping back and forth?

 

an update:
been trying to write an applescript, here is what I have so far


tell application "DVD Player"
activate
play dvd
repeat
if dvd menu active then
play next chapter
end if
end repeat
end tell

the idea is that I want the computer to keep checking to see if the movie has ended and been stuck at the menu screen, if it is indeed at the menu screen the player would play the next chapter automatically. However this doesn't seems to be working, could anyone please point out my errors please. Thank you

 

You know another way to do this would be to rip just the movie portion to the hard drive and play it with QT or VLC. That should be easily repeatable. I am sorry, but I do not know enough with AppleScript to really help.