Export positional time reference to external file

[mistasturge]

To Whomever can provide some advice:

I am attempting to simplify a repetitive task.

I swear I looked through the User Guide, FAQ and searched the forums, but was surprisingly unable to find anyone else searching for this feature.

I use VLC to log videos, and so when a particular event in the video I'm watching occurs at HH:MM:SS, I'd like to use a hotkey to export that HH:MM:SS data to my cursor in Microsoft Excel. This would drastically reduce the time I spend doing this, since I am currently entering the information manually. I did discover the get_time() Javascript function for the Mozilla plug-in, the description for which is nearly what I'm looking for, but I think this is a little bit different.

Right now I'm using WinXP, but after I can solve the problem in that environment, I would like to be able to do this in OSX and Linux (into OpenOffice Spreadsheet) as well, something that I don't think should be too difficult once it's been solved.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I wouldn't be surprised if I had to code an output module for this purpose, but my coding skills are rusty at best, and I'm hoping there is a simpler way to do it.