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Re: Text track in QTMovie
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Re: Text track in QTMovie


  • Subject: Re: Text track in QTMovie
  • From: Joe Turner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:40:08 -0600

Sorry for taking so long.

Okay, what I am looking for is the contents of the text track. Like, for a movie, it would be the chapter names and times.

The issue is that I am making this for someone who is using AppleScript, and is just using a call method on my method to do this. So, the Debugger will not stop at my breakpoints (I thought it did, even if it is being called by a call method).

Anyways, I guess what I am looking for is an error in the code I have created. Like, am I passing something wrong? Am I trying to parse something as a different format than it is? I can create a new project and do this and tell you the debugger contents too though, if needed.

I am used to objective-c, and some of these C calls can confuse me sometimes. Like, is chars[] the same thing as a UInt8?

Thanks for your help,

Joe
On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:54 PM, douglas welton wrote:

when you say it won't show you the "track names" do you mean:

a) your NSLog() function is failing and nothing is printed
b) NSLog() prints something, but the value of string appears to be either nil or empty (which one?)
c) you really want the name of the track (i.e., the thing displayed in the QT Player) and not the text in each sample. If this is the case then we have to do something entirely different ;^}
d) all of the function calls succeed and when examined in the debugger you can see the values for size and chars[] are valid but your NSString cannot be properly constructed.


Can you clarify?  BTW, what values are you seeing in the debugger?

On Dec 14, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Joe Turner wrote:

Okay, so I did what you said, but yet, it still won't show me the track names. Here is my code:

Media media = [[[[[movieView movie] tracksOfMediaType:QTMediaTypeText] objectAtIndex:0] media] quickTimeMedia];

TimeValue64 timeValue = 0;
TimeValue64 duration = 0;
GetMediaNextInterestingDecodeTime(media, nextTimeMediaSample + nextTimeEdgeOK, timeValue, fixed1, &timeValue, &duration);

ByteCount size;
GetMediaSample2(media, NULL, 0, &size, timeValue, NULL, NULL, NULL, nil, nil, 1, NULL, NULL);

char chars[size];

GetMediaSample2(media, &chars, size, NULL, timeValue, NULL, NULL, NULL, nil, nil, 1, NULL, NULL);
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:chars length:size encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"String: %@", string);


Thanks,

Joe
On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:03 PM, douglas welton wrote:

Hi Joe,

Since you didn't define "easy" or tell me what you'd tried, then I'll have to make some assumptions about what you know. I will assume that you have read the documentation on QT media samples.

The basic steps:

Get the text track.
Get the track media.
loop thru the media samples using a function like GetMediaNextInterestingDecodeTime() with the parameters of your choice
Use GetMediaSample2() to get the data/length associated with the text sample.
Create an NSString with the bytes/length returned in the previous call


regards,

douglas

On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Joe Turner wrote:

I have a QTMovie (that is valid), and it has a text track. I am wondering if there is any easy way to get the contents of the text track into an NSString.

Thanks,

Joe



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