Support for .dvdmedia files in OS X

[CaptainEvilStomper]

A .dvdmedia file is basically a bundle that holds the contents of a DVD - you just take a VIDEO_TS folder and add ".dvdmedia" to the end of the folder. By default these files open in DVD Player, though I've occasionally had issues trying to play them (it gives me a "media type not supported" error). It would be great if I could play these files in VLC instead. Currently they'll play in VLC, but it only works the first few times you open one of these files. For some reason after you open it a few times it goes back to being a regular folder, though the .dvdmedia extension is still there, and the "open with" section is gone from the Get Info window. Even worse, if you set VLC as the default application for that file type, there's no obvious way to fix it, since all .dvdmedia files will now be treated as folders instead of bundles. If you want to get it back to normal you have to download RCDefaultApp, find the .dvdmedia extension, and set it to open in DVD Player from there.

In any case, I can't imagine something like this would be that hard to implement since a bundle is just a folder with an extension. Is there any chance of this being supported in the near future?

[raindancing]

I think the problem stems from the fact that, although VLC can play these, it doesn't know that it can play these. It's only a tiny hack to change that though.

Right-click on VLC, and select Show Package Contents.
Open Info.plist with TextEdit (or any other basic text editor).

Find:
<key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
<array>

Right after that line, paste in:

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<dict> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array> <string>dvdmedia</string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key> <string>generic.icns</string> <key>LSHandlerRank</key> <string>Default</string> <key>CFBundleTypeMIMETypes</key> <array> <string></string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>DVD Bundle</string> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>LSTypeIsPackage</key> <true/ </dict>

Then rebuild launch services: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? ... 2084155353

I've been using VLC as the default app for these for a couple months, and haven't had a problem.

[rmm5t]

Here's a slightly simpler, and properly formatted snippet that can be added to the CFBundleDocumentTypes array.

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<dict> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array> <string>dvdmedia</string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key> <string>movie.icns</string> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>DVD Media Document</string> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>LSTypeIsPackage</key> <true/> </dict>