Applescripts to control VLC
Submitted by jonathan on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 10:40
I wanted to control my VLC player via Quicksilver just like I am able to do with iTunes, but I was unable to find anything online so I decided to write my own. Here are a few code snippets that you can use to control iTunes.
I will go over how to use them with Quicksilver later.
Open Multiple Files
# get the music we want to load set Music to choose file with multiple selections allowed without invisibles # open the selected music tell application "VLC" to open Music # start from the beginning tell application "VLC" to next
Open Multiple Folders(This one has timing issues you have have to alter the times around, if you have any suggestions as to how to fix it PLEASE let me know)
# get the music we want to load set Music to choose folder with multiple selections allowed # open the selected music tell application "VLC" to open Music ############################ # Get music start start from top not bottom ########################### set MusicCount to count Music set MusicCount to MusicCount - 1 # stop the music playing tell application "VLC" to stop # wait a moment so that vlc has time to catch up minimum of 0.3 plus how ever many folders are being loaded this seems to be the right amount of time for vlc to know what is going on set DelayCount to (MusicCount / 10) + 0.3 delay DelayCount # now start to play the music tell application "VLC" to play # start from beginning repeat MusicCount times # loop seems to work better with delay at beginning delay DelayCount # must let vlc catch up tell application "VLC" to previous end repeat
Simple VLC controls
#play/pause tell application "VLC" to play #next tell application "VLC" to next #previous tell application "VLC" to previous #volume up repeat 5 times tell application "VLC" to volumeUp end repeat #volume down repeat 5 times tell application "VLC" to volumeDown end repeat
