[theora] XiphQT and QuickTime X

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Thanks a lot! That's great new to hear that it's not a fundamental problem.

Is there anything that can be done to fix it without having to
re-compile the component?

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Eric Carlson <eric.carlson at me.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> I have the same problem, but haven't got around to attacking it yet.
>> If somebody knows how to solve this, please post.
>>
>  I just looked into this and found that because of changes other parts of
> the OS, QuickTime Player X requires components to export the type(s) they
> support with UTIs in the Info.plist file in the component bundle. UTIs are
> documented here:
> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/uniformtypeidentifiers.html.
>
>  For example, the entry for video/ogg might look like this:
>
>    <key>UTExportedTypeDeclarations</key>
>    <array>
>        <dict>
>            <key>UTTypeConformsTo</key>
>            <string>public.movie</string>
>            <key>UTTypeDescription</key>
>            <string>Ogg Video</string>
>            <key>UTTypeIdentifier</key>
>            <string>com.xiph.oggvideo</string>
>            <key>UTTypeTagSpecification</key>
>            <dict>
>                <key>public.filename-extension</key>
>                <array>
>                    <string>ogv</string>
>                </array>
>            </dict>
>        </dict>
>    </array>
>
>  QuickTime team is working with tech pubs to get this documented.
>
> eric
>
>
>> Also, I just saw a tweet about XiphQT and 64 bit snow leopard not
>> working: http://twitter.com/chrisjensenj/statuses/5172978080 .
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jason Self <jason.self at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've just finished installing Apple's shiny new Mac OS X version 10.6
>>> (aka "Snow Leopard.") One of the very first things I did was place
>>> XiphQT 0.1.9 into /Library/Components. It appears that it doesn't work
>>> with the new QuickTime X: The .ogg and .ogv files are grayed out in
>>> the Open File dialog box and cannot be selected. Right-clicking on the
>>> file, selecting Open With, and then selecting QuickTime Player makes
>>> it immediately barf saying "The document
>>> bug_buck_bunny_480p_stereo.ogg could not be opened. QuickTime Player
>>> cannot open files of this type."
>>>
>>> Fortunately, iTunes does continue to play them.
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