iTunes and VLC Applescript
I watch a lot of video podcasts – or ‘vodcasts’ as the cool kids say – and I have an iPod so I use iTunes. However iTunes doesn’t really handle video very nicely, I much prefer to use VLC. But finding the vodcast file and opening it in VLC is a pain and I can’t find any scripts to automate it, so I wrote my own.
I searched for similar scripts and found this excellent one on Doug’s scripts which opens files in Quicktime. I took the basic syntax and structure and modified it to work nicely with vodcasts and VLC.
It checks the selected tracks in iTunes and whether they are unplayed video podcasts, it then plays the oldest one it finds. It also plays any video track it finds (if the first condition is not met) and maintains the new/not new marker on podcasts. I installed it in iTunes and gave it a keyboard shortcut; now my vodcast viewing is easy!
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Maybe it’s just me, but the download link doesn’t seem to work? If you could email me if/when you fix it, that would be phenomenal, thanks!
Hi Ravi, apologies for that, the link should work now. I hope you find it useful!