trying to get DVD Player to launch a DVD using "open VIDEO_TS"

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#1

I’ve been trying to get DVD Player to launch a DVD using “open VIDEO_TS”. I searched the group and there was one post regarding this but, it didn’t resolve the issue.

This should work fine – where “Extra” is my drive name and “VIDEO_TS” is a folder which is in the root of that drive?:

open VIDEO_TS file (“Extra:VIDEO_TS”)

Error returned: DVD Player got an error: Can’t get file “Extra:VIDEO_TS”. (-1728)

I’ve tried every possible combination of paths, I’ve moved the file around to different drives, different paths, I’ve tried POSIX paths with slashes. Is this a bug in in the new DVD Player or am I missing something?

Thanks!

#2

Does this work?

set fol to (choose folder with prompt "Where is the VIDEO_TS folder you wish to open?")
tell application "DVD Player" to open VIDEO_TS fol

– Rob

#3

This does it. What lousy documentation!

set fileSpec to “Extra:VIDEO_TS” as file specification
open VIDEO_TS fileSpec

Thanks