Applescript to get name with VLC 2.0 should work but doesn't

Question

I'm trying to get the name of the current file playing in VLC. Applescript SHOULD be able to do this with VLC 2 and on (it's in the dictionary, "name of current item") however it keeps not compiling, because it "expected end of line but found identifier."

What's going on?

Edit: Here is the part of the code that's not working

tell application "VLC"
get name of current item
end tell

DOUBLE EDIT: Whole script

tell application "VLC"
    set clipname to get name of current item
end tell

set oldDelim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."

--set clipname to text item 1 of clipname

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelim

return clipname

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Something weird is happening. I swear when I opened one of my applescripts before, it rightfully said "current time" with no problems. But when I opened it again, it said <<class AACT>>, and won't let me type current time instead.

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: It just did it again. When I quit and reopened applescript, it showed up/worked like it should.

Answer 1

That part of your code is correct. The problem is somewhere else. Test it by cutting the snippet above out and it should still not compile.

Answer 2

Try this:

 tell application "VLC"    
  activate   
  set currVideo to name of window 1  
  display dialog currVideo
end tell

or this:

tell application "VLC"
activate
set clipname to get name of item 1 of window 1
display dialog clipname
end tell

If you open the Dictionary for VLC app, you will see that the "window" element has a property "name", which I have used to fetch the name.