Does Apple Dvd Player keep a list of dvds you played?
Dear Friends,
Does Apple Dvd Player keep a list of dvds you played? If so,where is it?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), connected to a 250G external firewire drive
No, it doesn't.
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Dear Klaus1,
If it doesn't, how does it know when I put in an old dvd. It asks whether go to the beginning or go to the last time played? A new Dvd automatically starts at the beginning of the disk.
You must have ejected a dvd before it finished. I believe it was notated somehow in the dvd plist file (preference file). To test this theory, trash the plist file restart your computer, empty the trash to see if you get the notice again.
Dear CMCSK,
I did as you said and indeed the old DVD started at the beginning, but doesn't that mean the info was stored in the plist file?
Dear Ogelthorpe,
Nope, that help file says nothing about the records DVD player keeps.
Double click any plist file if you want to know what's stored on it.
I did some more research and found this answer
John Guo New York
This solved my questionRe: Where does DVD Player remember all the DVDs its ever played?
It's in User Name>Library>Application Support>DVD Player. If you delete all of the files, inserting a DVD that has already been read by DVD Player will prompt to start from the beginning.
I believe this is correct. There was 300MB of stuff. Unfortunately it is in an unreadable form. I was hoping to use this information to "remember" which movies I had already seen.
VLC can produce a playlist:
http://www.videolan.org/index.html
and is in any case much more versatile than DVD Player.
Many (but not all) plist files in Application Support/DVD Player/Settings use the key "MediaName" to store the titles of DVDs that the application has played. (Some plist files in this folder have other purposes, so we'll leave those out of the equation.) Thus you could open every plist in Settings, check for the presence of the MediaName key, and then note the content. For example, using Property List Editor to open a plist that stores a DVD title, you'll see a line like:
MediaName String TROY
TextEdit will show something similar:
<key>MediaName</key>
<string>TROY</string>
But you'll probably want to see all the titles at once. Let me suggest a Terminal solution. Open Terminal, then navigate to the appropriate folder:
cd /Users/username/Library/Application\ Support/DVD\ Player/Settings[RETURN]
(Replace username with your username.)
Then issue this command:
awk '/MediaName/{c=2} c&&c--' *.plist[RETURN]
The result will look something like this:
<key>MediaName</key>
<string>ALEXANDER_NEVSKY</string>
<key>MediaName</key>
<string>TROY</string>
<key>MediaName</key>
<string>EXCALIBUR_16X9_FF_NA</string>
<key>MediaName</key> ….
Does Apple Dvd Player keep a list of dvds you played?