Re: Movie text tracks

Sorry, I left out the punch line. My original need was simply to extract the text tracks from the old .mov files. It turns out you can do that, after a fashion, with QT Pro, but it comes out with lots of binary cruft. I found out you can also do this with ffmpeg, the Swiss Army Knife of video

Re: Movie text tracks

Hi all, Thanks for the advice. I wanted to follow up with what I eventually ended up doing. So, both Jacque’s and Richmond’s suggestions were good, but too much work for just peeking at some text tracks. But they got me thinking: Hey, Windows 10 actually still runs QT 7, and I have an old QT

Re: Movie text tracks

Good to see you here, Devin. If your app can handle the RAM hit of embedding a browser app instance with the Browser Widget, and if you can extract the text track info from QT's proprietary format, HTML supports text tracks nicely via the WebVTT standard:

Re: Movie text tracks

Good to see you here, Devin. If your app can handle the RAM hit of embedding a browser app instance with the Browser Widget, and if you can extract the text track info from QT's proprietary format, HTML supports text tracks nicely via the WebVTT standard:

Re: Movie text tracks

This is not any sort of immediate help, but a quick Google search suggests that both AVF (Apple Video Foundation) and MMF (Microsoft Media Foundation - the underlying framework for the player in Livecode 10) support classes and APIs to access multiple media tracks and metadata. I don't know

Re: Movie text tracks

Or you could use an OS 9 emulator like SheepShaver where the old version of QT is available. On 5/17/22 1:02 PM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: Here's a thought: Dig out an old mac that runs, say, MacOS 10.6 or 10.7 and then follow this:

Re: Movie text tracks

Here's a thought: Dig out an old mac that runs, say, MacOS 10.6 or 10.7 and then follow this: https://synchrimedia.blogspot.com/2016/02/extracting-qt-text-tracks-from-movies.html Best, Richmond. On 17.05.22 20:28, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, I’m resurrecting some QuickTime

Movie text tracks

Hi all, I’m resurrecting some QuickTime movies from years ago, and some of them have text tracks. (Remember those?) In the LC player object you can still see that there is a text track with `put the tracks of player 1`. But there doesn’t seem to be a way anymore to show text tracks, either in