Re: QuickTime Player and AppleScript
Re: QuickTime Player and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: QuickTime Player and AppleScript
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:41:00 +0200
"Chris K." <email@hidden> wrote
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Ok, with that out of the way, I've written AppleScripts for use with
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QuickTime Player (and other things, of course) off and on for several
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years, but I have a new requirement for a project that I can't figure
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out. We have movies that have two sound tracks in two different
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languages and we need to assign those tracks to an alternate group. I've
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looked through the dictionary for QTP and I can't find a way to do this.
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Doing it in the UI of QuickTime Player is quite simple, but the only
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thing related that I can find in the dictionary is the language property
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of the tracks, but there's nothing for the alternate group.
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Does anyone know if it's possible to do this through the AppleScript
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interface to QuickTime Player?
Hmm. Just looking through and the answer appears to be no. In the dictionary (of QT6 pp) the track class has an 'alternate' property, but it's read only, and besides, that's only part of the story - it's also important to know what makes it alternate - language is only one possibility.
Best thing would be to file a feature request to Apple. They've been very responsive to my suggestions for the player dictionary, although you have to be patient to see them appear. I don't know whether the QT6 feature set is frozen (probably), but the sooner you suggest it the sooner we may see it.
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