Saturday, October 24, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] MPEG-2 Playback Component - Busted in QT10?

 

Thanks for the consult, Philip. I'm bailing out to other methods and
will dig into this later.

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On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Philip Hodgetts wrote:

>
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Jeff Cook wrote:
>
>> And you force MPEG Streamclip to default to using QT7 instead of
>> QT10...how??
>
> Well, a quick lesson in the QT API is required.
>
> MPEG Streamclip *should* be calling the QTKit API but it is more
> likely calling the old QT C API (deprecated, ie do not use, except
> there's still often no alternative). The Snow Leopard install includes
> *all* the API from QT 7 plus QT X, so anything that worked on QT 7
> should continue to work.
>
> that it doesn't suggests there's something no-kosher in the way MPEG
> Streamclip calls the QT API and that's why it's failing. I expect MPEG
> streamclip will need to be "updated" to the appropriate API calls.
>
> But test the MPEG-2 playback in the QT 7 player (in your Utilities
> folder I believe or install from the Snow Leopard folder - you only
> need the player, the API is already installed). If playback doesn't
> work in the QT Player (7) it's unlikely to work in MPEG Streamclip and
> is likely an incompatibility with Snow Leopard.
>
> Philip
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