(x-posted to AppleScript Users list 4/23/03 -- no replies there so far)
I'm working on automation for VCR-menu-style recording of specific QuickTime
broadcasts (based on known start and stop times). (Side note: the unicast
broadcasts are handed off to QuickTime Streaming Server on the same
machine.) I would like to get a program name from a text file and use it as
the movie name (QTB | Preferences | Recording: | Movie Name: <user-enterable
field>) for broadcasts that are recorded. It appears that the movie name is
not directly scriptable, based on what I see in the dictionary. Trying
another route, after changing the movie name, saving the broadcast settings
-- then changing the movie name in QTB, and opening the saved settings, the
name is not picked up from the saved settings. I opened the (XML) broadcast
settings file in TextEdit, and it seems to verify that the movie name is not
saved. Trying yet another route, I opened the QTB plist file
"com.apple.QuickTime Broadcaster.plist" (Kind: OOPlistDocumentType), and
this (XML) file does contain the movie name I set:
<key>recordName</key>
<string>mymoviename</string>
Short of scripting the setting of the movie name in the plist file, is there
a way to script the movie name? If not, this is a key missing item in the
dictionary.
Another scripting method would be to rename the saved movie file based on
text in my programming text file. I set QTB to record, started the
broadcast, renamed the movie file, then stopped the broadcast, and renaming
the file while it was still open and being written to didn't
cause any deleterious effects on the server or with a client viewing the
broadcast. I could determine the name of the file to rename based either on
its the last iteration of its name (where the movie names are "mymovie.mov",
"mymovie2.mov", "mymovie3.mov", ...), or latest modification date of a file
(name) starting with "mymovie".
Side note: There is a program that allows for automated recording (even
changes channels) that came with the Formac Studio dv/tv unit I'm using, but
the Formac software and QTB cannot address the unit simultaneously.
Bob Majors
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