From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T21:23:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Quicktime and Ruby

Hey, thanks for your help. I just have a quick question.


On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:42 AM, hengist podd wrote:
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
>
> require 'appscript'
> include Appscript
>
> QTP = app('QuickTime Player.app')
>
> infile = '/path/to/your file.mp3'
> outfile = '/path/to/your file.mov'

What does the 'MacTypes::Alias.path(infile))[0]' do?
> movie = QTP.open(MacTypes::Alias.path(infile))[0]
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't understand what the Alias and the [0] are doing. I guess it  
makes an alias of the file?


> movie.export(:to=>MacTypes::FileURL.path(outfile), :as=>:hinted_movie)
> movie.close



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