Applescripting to resize DVD Player window.

Question

I have a malfunctioning DVD player game that won't display the subtitles correctly unless they are forced to be redrawn. The simplest way to do this is to resize the window slightly. Obviously since that's a pain to do constantly manually I tried to script this with a simple repeat. My script works fine for TextEdit or FireFox but I get an error full of garbley-gook when I run it on DVD Player:
tell application "DVD Player"
set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 1320, 1047}
delay 0.5
set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 1325, 1051}
end tell
error "DVD Player got an error: UNîp¢$8Ôˇøcepscahp (the forum is editing most of the error out) number -1731
Any ideas?
Message was edited by: jyuichi

Answer 1

I launched VLC (which I already have), browsed the VIDEO_TS folder and clicked Play. Immediately VLC started playing in the correct 16:9 window and the video looked correct.
It seems this must be a woeful discrepancy in Apple's own DVD Player, which I certainly wouldn't have expected. I can use VLC for all similar videos from now on, though it doesn't give me the menu burned by the LG as DVD Player does. However, that's perhaps a small price to pay.