quicktime

Gradual memory leak in loop over contents of QTMovie

I have a simple foundation tool that exports every frame of a movie as a .tiff file. Here is the relevant code: NSString* movieLoc = [NSString stringWithCString:argv[1]]; QTMovie *sourceMovie = [QTMovie movieWithFile:movieLoc error:nil]; int i=0; while (QTTimeCompare([sourceMovie currentTime], [sourceMovie duration]) != NSOrderedSame) ...

Align four Quicktime (.MOV) files by their audio signals and play back simultaneously?

Greetings, Does anyone know a way to align four Quicktime (.MOV) files by their audio signals and then play them back, simultaneously as videos, on Mac OS 10.6? Thanks! ...

How to generate chapter metadata in an M4A file?

Hi, Anybody know how to generate chapter metadata in Mac OS X? (preferably Cocoa). I've tried to create an M4A file by concatenating two AIFF files. The M4A was generated fine but the chapter marks are all gone. Here is my prototype code. Is there anything wrong with it? -(void) generatePodcast { NSLog(@"Generating..."); NS...

Streaming from webcam on OS X - what technology to use?

I'm building a videoconferencing application in OS X. What technology would be best to use for real-time streaming video/audio captured from webcam/microphone in OS X? So far I was unsuccessful with these methods: - using QTKit I captured the media, but there isn't a way to stream it (without using the QTSS which is too bloaty and hard...

Show file duration in a HTML QuickTime player

I use QuickTime plug'in to play aiff sound in HTML page. I would like to have the duration of the soundfile written in my transport bar. How can I achieve this ? I look at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html but didn't find a solution. thx ...

QTMovie backed by a Movie works initially, but not in another method

What follows is an initializer method. It creates a Movie structure from a file, with an eye to extracting the raw pixels for processing, as per Apple QA1443. This is then wrapped in a QTMovie – sourceMovie = [QTMovie movieWithQuickTimeMovie: ...] – for convenience. After initializing such an object, the second method is called, and we ...

Applescript to batch export with quicktime pro

I need to export over 50 mp4 files to three different formats using Quicktime Pro. Currently I open the mp4, select the export options, choose filename to "save as" and start the process. I do this three times (one for each format) for each file. Does anyone have Applescript scipt to automate such a process, or a tool that already exist...

extract every audio-channel in a quicktime file

I want to extract every audio channel in a quicktime movie with the QuickTime-API. That means if the file has 5.1 surround, i want 6 audio files in the end. But at the moment I don't know how to manage that. Until now I have: OSStatus err = noErr; MovieAudioExtractionRef extractionSessionRef = nil; Boolean allChannelsDiscrete = true; in...

Where can I find a collection of sample videos that use various container formats / codecs / bitrates / resolutions to use as test data?

I'd like to get hold of a wide range of videos to use as test data. I'd ideally need Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media containers with video content at various bitrates and resolutions. Before I set out gathering or creating such a collection myself, does anyone know if a similar repository of sample video data already exists? Perhaps ...

Video capture filter

How I can filter video stream from camera in MacOS X. I write quicktime sequence grabber channel component, but it`s work only if app used SG API. If app used QTKit Capture the component is not worked. Somebody know how I can implement it? ...

Embedded mpg doesn't work in safari with OS10.6

I'm trying to embed an mpg file in my new website ( http://66.216.163.164 - it's still under construction so we haven't switched the domain name over from the old site yet). The file seems to work fine in Firefox and on IE8, but it refuses to work on Safari with a Mac (I haven't tried safari on Windows). The code is <EMBED src="te...

Capture video from camera in Mac OS X

How I can filter video stream from camera in MacOS X. I write quicktime sequence grabber channel component, but it`s work only if app used SG API. If app used QTKit Capture the component is not worked. Somebody know how I can implement it? ...

How to do hi-res offscreen rendering in QuickTime for Windows?

I need to render a QuickTime movie into a GWorld that may not be the movie's natural size, on Windows. When the movie is scaled up, say by a factor of 1.5, I see some jaggies. Whereas if I open the same movie in QuickTime Player (version 7.6.6 on Windows Vista) and stretch the window, I see jaggies while stretching, but when I release ...

using quicktime to track bitrate

I am using quicktime and streaming video. In the Movie Inspector view it shows the current bitrate. Is there some tool that would take this bitrate and record it over time and store it for future analysis? Say in excel or some similar tool maybe? ...

Quicktime Object Embed Without Buffering

i have a site [here][link removed] (IE8 and Google Chrome 5 only). i was wondering for the quicktime object if there was a way to not start buffering unless the user clicks the play button? i hope to insert other movie files in the future and having them all buffer is not reasonable unless there is no way of getting this done. thank y...

Split interactive Keynote .mov (Quicktime) to one .mp4 file per slide

Hallo everyone, i wonder if someone knows a solution to my problem. I have a Keynote presentation with a lot of animations. I converted/exported this keynote presentation to a interactive .mov (Quicktime) movie. It means that you can use Quicktime to play this converted presentation movie and advance in the slides by pressing any key or...

QuickTime component with Xcode 3.2: C++ compilation errors

I'm trying to compile the Xiph QuickTime component Xcode project on OS X. It depends on a number of libraries such as libflac and Theora; all of those dependencies appear to be C code which all compiles nicely with the 10.5 SDK. However, when it comes to compiling the component itself, I get a number of errors, mostly along the lines of ...

iPhone - How to dissmiss Quicktime from UIWebView?

Is there any way to dissmiss / access the QT player loaded inside of an UIWebView? ...

Turning a screen into a virtual web cam.

Is there an app (preferable a Mac app) that will turn an area of your screen into a virtual web cam, such that it would be available as an input source for other apps that want to access your web cam? ...

Cover - art display for songs

I am developing a music player for streaming online data and i need to display cover -art of songs being played. I need to know whether cover - art is a part of data stream or do players set a default image with songs being played. ...