Comments on: Instant replay in QuickTime Player

By: Goodtime

Goodtime — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:50:19 +0000

By the way,

This might the least wordiest version of this script:

tell document 1 of application "QuickTime Player" set current time to current time - (4 * time scale) end tell

You can combine the tell into one statement instead of two.

Here is one more variation:

tell document 1 of application "QuickTime Player" to ¬ set current time to current time - (4 * time scale)

By: Goodtime

Goodtime — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:46:31 +0000

Nice job on this script. I might implement something lik this in a QT based version of StarPlayr.

gt :-)

By: Domain of the Bored » Blog Archive » Instant replay in iTunes

Domain of the Bored » Blog Archive » Instant replay in iTunes — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:09:51 +0000

[...] While flipping through Michael McCracken’s blog, I found his blog post about his instant replay in QuickTime Player script, and decided that that would be a good thing to have in iTunes (especially when I want to quote some George Carlin to somebody). [...]

By: Net Crap (8/12) at Musings of a Chicagoan

Net Crap (8/12) at Musings of a Chicagoan — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:20:32 +0000

[...] Instant replay in QuickTime Player: “A feature I really miss from having a DVR is the ‘8 seconds back’ button, to catch a play or repeat something funny.” (tags: useful reference macintosh) [...]

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:21:51 +0000

Silks: I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to install QuickSilver, but aside from that, all this script needs is to be run. You can save it as an application in Script Editor and run it like that.

You can double click it, maybe put it in your dock, or find any number of other hotkey programs instead of QuickSilver to use it with instead.

By: Silks

Silks — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:14:28 +0000

is there a way to use this script without installing QS? i’d really rather not install it. thanks.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:33:25 +0000

Inqscribe looks really handy, but good lord - $70?!

Good luck with your scripting, Tobias!

By: Tobias

Tobias — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:34:22 +0000

http://www.inquirium.net/products/inqscribe/ is specifically made for this, but at 1.5.2 still only beta quality. You gave me courage to try replicating timestamp-jumping in AppleScript, using QT and some text editor.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:32:27 +0000

Hey, I forgot that you could use something that wasn't an application as the target of a 'tell' block... good point.

Really, most of my applescripts are super wordy, because almost without fail, the first attempt I make fails, and they get excessively verbose while trying various versions of what 'should work' to debug the script - invariably, the final working script is half the size of the largest intermediate and could probably stand to be shortened significantly even so.

In order to protect my ego, I consider this to be a failing of AppleScript and its poor error messages and debugging support...

By: rentzsch

rentzsch — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:09:30 +0000

4secondsback.scpt is a bit wordy? I know, I know, even by AS standards. This works too:

tell application "QuickTime Player" tell movie 1 set current time to current time - (4 * time scale) end tell end tell

Didn't notice time scale before -- here I've been using the raw 600 "ticks" per second in my scripts. Thanks!