Quicktime player command-line access?

mrchaotica · 06-08-2004, 12:37 AM

Is there any way to use the Quicktime Player, or even just the libraries, from the command-line? I'm looking for something like mpg123 functionality, in that I want to be able to output to stdout so that I can pipe it to another program.

r · 06-30-2004, 07:17 PM

try Quicktime Player by Sarah Childers
http://home.earthlink.net/~rainbowflight/
it plays audio files (qt and many others) via terminal. great soft!
r

Lankhmart · 06-30-2004, 08:24 PM

qtplay is a nice QT-based command line player, but it doesn't pipe audio to stdout. There's a program called mov123 buried deep in the SlimServer package that will send decoded audio to stdout. (Just dig into the SlimServer.prefPane to find it.)

If you're trying to pipe out the video data (say into ffmpeg or mpeg2enc) then there's movtoy4m. You can find a compiled binary inside of ffmpegX.

mrchaotica · 07-03-2004, 08:57 PM

Thanks for the info! I think I might be able to hack together some combination of qtplay and mov123 to get the functionality I want.

Another question: anybody know a nice bit of Applescript or something to access the metadata in an .aac file?

06-08-2004, 12:37 AM	#1
mrchaotica Triple-A Player Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 65	Quicktime player command-line access? Is there any way to use the Quicktime Player, or even just the libraries, from the command-line? I'm looking for something like mpg123 functionality, in that I want to be able to output to stdout so that I can pipe it to another program.

06-30-2004, 07:17 PM	#2
r Major Leaguer Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: europa Posts: 322	qtplay try Quicktime Player by Sarah Childers http://home.earthlink.net/~rainbowflight/ it plays audio files (qt and many others) via terminal. great soft! r

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06-30-2004, 08:24 PM	#3
Lankhmart Triple-A Player Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 150	qtplay is a nice QT-based command line player, but it doesn't pipe audio to stdout. There's a program called mov123 buried deep in the SlimServer package that will send decoded audio to stdout. (Just dig into the SlimServer.prefPane to find it.) If you're trying to pipe out the video data (say into ffmpeg or mpeg2enc) then there's movtoy4m. You can find a compiled binary inside of ffmpegX.

07-03-2004, 08:57 PM	#4
mrchaotica Triple-A Player Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 65	Thanks for the info! I think I might be able to hack together some combination of qtplay and mov123 to get the functionality I want. Another question: anybody know a nice bit of Applescript or something to access the metadata in an .aac file?