QuickTimeX in Applescript / Scripting Bridge

Question

I'd like to be able to grab the metadata of the currently playing file in Quicktime X using ScriptingBridge and Ruby, so far I have the following code

require 'osx/cocoa'
OSX.require_framework 'ScriptingBridge'

@app = OSX::SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX")

@app.documents.each do |movie|
  # What now?!
end

But I can't find any functions in QuickTime X's applescript dictionary to get the metadata from a document object (the same data you can see in QT's 'Show Movie Inspector' HUD) — does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Here is an example of metadata manipulation. Is that what you want? http://oreilly.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/28/quicktime.html

Answer 2

A quick inspection of objects can be done with the Looksee gem - tells you what methods are available on a ruby-object. I don't know if it will work properly with ScriptingBridge, but it's quick to try.