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Play DVDs automatically on insertion in VLC media player: Updated Script
Authored by: michalc on Tue, Sep 18 2007 at 9:46AM PDT

I've just realised that the AppleScript I gave does not work if VLC was open and was used to play another video before the DVD was inserted. In such a case the original video played gets played again. The solution is to add a "next" command to the AppleScript":

tell application "VLC"
	OpenURL "dvdnav:///dev/rdisk1"
	play
	next
end tell

This should hopefully now work in all cases.