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Exporting MP3 file using QT... What a doc!

Hi all!

I'm sorry for what -I think- will a really stupid and simple question. I've
never used the QT API, but I need it for a Cocoa program I'm writing.

This application needs to import a MP3 file and then convert it to AAC file.
I guess using QT for that is the best way to do, but I didn't though it
would be so complex to get what I need from the API.

I'm importing a movie using NSMovie object. I can get the QTMovie from it
but I don't know what to do with it next. I'm lost in the various component,
API functions... I've tried to read the Quick Start and a lot of other docs,
but it seems dark to me. And, as I read them on, the docs appear far from
what I want to do.

Some examples:
- I try to understand how to save a movie in a file, I understand that it's
not what I want: I need my file to be a AAC and not a MooV file.
- I try to understand the exporters, but it's all about imaging, not sound.

I often feel like I'm going too deep in the API. I just want to use QT as a
hig-level tool. I don't need to know what a Atom is or how to handle the
movie data... It seems to me the doc lacks of abstraction.

Did I miss something? Do I really need to read 250 pages of doc and hundreds
of lines of code to do such a simple thing? Is there a place where to find
some high level doc or something like that?

Sorry for being so critical, but I'm getting lost in here... Help!

Mathieu Godart
Chief editor of Mac4Ever.com
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