[theora] can't export from iMovie 08 to ogg theora/vorbis?

[Arek Korbik]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Arek Korbik <arkadini at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Arek Korbik <arkadini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 22, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Arek Korbik wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at mac.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  -32766 is usually badComponentSelector, 0x80008002, cast to a long.
>>>>>
>>>>>  My guess is that it is failing because the export component does not
>>>>> implement a selector iMovie/QuickTime requires for the type of export
>>>>> iMovie does. I would add logging to the component dispatch routine to
>>>>> see what is being called.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like it fails on kTextExportGetDisplayDataSelect (0x0100)
>>>> selector, which is a method of TextExport component type and AFAIK is
>>>> not something that MovieExport component is required to implement.
>>>>
>>>  0x0100 is only kTextExportGetDisplayDataSelect for a text export component.
>>> See the other selector names equal to 0x0100 in QuickTimeComponents.h, I
>>> suspect that you are actually being called to get the data and properties
>>> procedure (kMovieExportNewGetDataAndPropertiesProcsSelect).
>
> OK, so it seems OggExport component was advertising ability to export
> from procedures, following the ElectricImage example component by
> Apple, and it wasn't actually supporting it, same as the ElectricImage
> component.
>
> Unfortunately, after removing the flag advertising the support, the
> iMovie doesn't list Ogg as an available option anymore.
>
> It looks like OggExport will need to (at least) support exporting from
> procedures properly for it to work with iMovie. Any help implementing
> that will be appreciated - right now it doesn't seem like a 15 mins
> hack, and there's not much docs or info either.

So that Friday wasn't my best day - scratch that last post, too.

For some reason iMovie'08 expects OggExport to be able to extract raw
data from a movie for it. Kind of strange, that, but turns out a
simple pass-through-to-the-quicktime-exporter solution fixes the issue
for me. So that's now in trunk.

I didn't have time to build binaries with the latest versions of libs.
Hopefully I'll get to it this weekend, for more people to test the
fix.

Christopher suggested to make a release after the fix. The iMovie fix
(if it works for more people) and linking against the 1.0 theora seem
like good reasons. I guess providing (unofficial?) xiphqt+thusnelda
binaries, could be a good thing too?

I'll try to not delay those for too long,
Arek