Quicktime Player - Always Loop

[Kingers]

I am a recent Mac convert and one of the Windows apps I missed was the wonderful Media Player Classic (MPC). While this was not ported to Mac OS X, Quicktime Player offers almost all of the functions I needed except one.

I am a huge fan of loading a music or video file and having it automatically repeat over and over. Quicktime supports looping in this fashion but does not support a global loop for every file, as such I had to select loop each time.

Thanks to some suggestions in the forums (capitalj) I came up with an AppleScript droplet to do the job:

<code>
on open of target_files
set theMovie to target_files
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open theMovie
set the looping of document 1 to true
play document 1
end tell
end open
</code>

However this was only partially successful. It mean't I had to drag each file onto the droplet in order for it to work. After some poking around I discovered that I needed to compile it into an application bundle using Xcode. This way I could associate it with certain file types e.g. mp4 and as a result I could double click them and have them open in quicktime with the loop setting checked.

I also took the time to update the info.plist with the file extensions list from the popular VLC player (I chose not to use it because I don't like the video window being seperate). Thus files types associated with the application are now more detailed than just "wmv" -> "Windows Media Video".

You could also copy the icons (*.icns) from the VLC package into the new app's resources and you would get a complete set of icons as well.

My final step was to update the application icon to the quicktime icon.

The final result is the attached compiled application (for copyright purposes, the icons are not included but you can do this yourself if you want).