Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Using the QTKit Framework

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From here: http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/qtkit.html


The heart of QuickTime is its comprehensive underlying framework which is powerful, extensible, and flexible. This framework provides developers with the ability to display, import, export, modify, and capture more than 200 different media types. Until recently, however, using this power from Cocoa applications hasn't always been straightforward. Before the release of Mac OS X Tiger, anything more than display and playback of QuickTime files required using a set of Carbon APIs that were distinctly foreign to most Cocoa developers.
That has all changed. With Mac OS X Tiger comes QuickTime 7, which features a redesigned core architecture and provides a modernized Cocoa interface called QTKit. QTKit allows Cocoa developers to leverage a useful subset of QuickTime's capabilities. It not only allows you to play QuickTime movies, but to edit, splice, combine, and transcode them. And, if you need to go beyond its abilities, QTKit makes it easy to get to the underlying QuickTime primitives and directly use the more than 2500 functions in the QuickTime procedural API.
In essence, QTKit brings a deeper level of integration with QuickTime to the premier programming environment on Mac OS X.
This article shows how the QTKit framework is structured and introduces you to the essential concepts you'll need to understand to get up and running. First, let's review why QuickTIme is so important and what it brings to developers.

QTKit API Overview


For more info see the link above.


What Can You Do With QTKit?

With just the overview of QTKit that we've given here, you can see that QTKit lets you access an enormous amount of power from QuickTime and build it into your application in a straightforward fashion. What can you do with this knowledge now? You could create a media browser that would let you keep tabs on all the various kinda of meta-data about a large collection of QuickTime movies. You could build a command-line tool that would grab several frames from a set of movies and make a web page that allowed users to browse a collection remotely and choose the movie they wanted to download. Or, you could even build the next video editing tool customized for your own internal workflow.
The sky is the limit. QTKit brings an unprecedented ease of development to more than 15 years of multimedia experience in the QuickTime platform. It brings the premier multimedia platform to the premier application creation platform.

For More Information on QTKit

Using this article as a springboard, you should be able to dive into code and, with the help of the documentation, create your own QuickTime based Cocoa application. Along the way, you'll want to take advantage of the following resources:

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