[PD] dvd

[Marc Lavallée]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:51:43PM +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Along those lines, you can use the osascript command to send applescript
> events to DVD Player. It's a powerful way of controlling the applications
> you know and love. Insert a disc and get it playing. Enter the following
> at the command line:
> osascript -e 'tell application "DVD Player" \
> pause dvd \
> end tell'

I just found how to do the equivalent with xine; there's a remote control 
application called "xine-remote". Included is a script to start xine in 
dvd mode and a pd patch to control xine remotely. There's many more 
commands available, and others ways to control it. Xine is lovely too...
--
Marc
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#!/bin/sh
xine -n --no-splash --no-logo -B -D dvd:// 2>&1 >/dev/null &
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#N canvas 412 271 397 225 10;
#X obj 41 153 shell;
#X msg 117 75 pause;
#X obj 117 56 tgl 15 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1 -1 0 1
;
#X obj 41 106 prepend xine-remote -c;
#X msg 41 75 play;
#X msg 79 75 stop;
#X obj 87 179 tgl 15 0 empty empty empty 0 -6 0 8 -262144 -1 -1 0 1
;
#X text 107 179 error;
#X obj 222 135 prepend event;
#X msg 274 60 up;
#X msg 272 111 down;
#X msg 222 87 left;
#X msg 319 87 right;
#X msg 264 87 select;
#X msg 48 130 halt;
#X obj 86 130 loadbang;
#X obj 41 178 print;
#X msg 86 152 ./xinedvd;
#X text 36 24 simple control panel for the xine dvd player;
#X connect 0 0 16 0;
#X connect 0 1 6 0;
#X connect 1 0 3 0;
#X connect 2 0 1 0;
#X connect 3 0 0 0;
#X connect 4 0 3 0;
#X connect 5 0 3 0;
#X connect 8 0 3 0;
#X connect 9 0 8 0;
#X connect 10 0 8 0;
#X connect 11 0 8 0;
#X connect 12 0 8 0;
#X connect 13 0 8 0;
#X connect 14 0 3 0;
#X connect 15 0 17 0;
#X connect 17 0 0 0;