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A feature I've been looking for in a media player is the ability to run a custom script against a file from the media player's file browser. I have a script that I use to mark a file as watched, which I currently run as an Automator Action from the OS X Finder after watching the video.

Has anyone come across a way of doing file-level 'actions' within a full screen media player?

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Why do you need a script to mark a file as watched? On Plex and XMBC you can easily toggle a file's watched/unwatched status from the navigation interface.

I store this watched status on a server that other people created. It is used to collect statistics of how many people watched a particular file. It also allows me to see what files I've already watched as I use multiple devices.

There is a mymediadb plugin for xbmc that does this. Can probably borrow code from there if you have your own backend thingy. https://github.com/netbrain/mmdb-xbmc-addon

You can run queries against XBMC sqlite database or use http://trakt.tv/ to keep all your XBMC in sync.

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