Does Apple Dvd Player keep a list of dvds you played?

Question

Dear Friends,
Does Apple Dvd Player keep a list of dvds you played? If so,where is it?

Answer 1

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> ….