QuickTime Broadcaster- scripting Movie Name?
QuickTime Broadcaster- scripting Movie Name?
- Subject: QuickTime Broadcaster- scripting Movie Name?
- From: Bob Majors <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:53:14 -0700
I'm working on automation for VCR-menu-style recording of select QuickTime
broadcasts (based on known start and stop times). (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 I record. It doesn't appear that the movie name is
directly scriptable, based on what I see in the dictionary. 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 also opened the (XML) broadcast settings file in
TextEdit, and it (also) does not appear that the movie name is saved. I
then 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?
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 it 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 name is "mymovie", each
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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