[theora] XiphQT and QuickTime X

[Eric Carlson]

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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