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H:\scripts>rcmd \\render1 cscript c:\temp\still2qt.js c:\temp\file_101.sgi c:\temp\test.mov
Executing on \\render1 cscript c:\temp\still2qt.js c:\temp\file_101.sgi c:\temp\test.mov

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Launched Quicktime
c:\temp\still2qt.js(32, 1) Microsoft JScript runtime error: The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable

Remote server \\render1 disconnected

H:\scripts>

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Line 32 in my copy of your script is:

var qtPlayerSrc = qtPlayerApp.Players(1);

Cheers for this post, regardless. Very nicely done.

// to run from the command line :
// cscript //E:jscript jsQTtest.js sourcepath, destpath

// Get script arguments
if (WScript.Arguments.Length >= 2) {
sourcePath = WScript.Arguments(0);
destPath = WScript.Arguments(1);

temp = sourcePath.split(’.');
sourceExt = temp.pop();
temp = destPath.split(’.');
destExt = temp.pop();
WScript.Echo(”Source File extension is :”+sourceExt);
WScript.Echo(”Dest File extension is :”+destExt);

} else {
WScript.Echo(”not enough parameters”);
WScript.Quit();
}

// Launch QuickTime Player Application
var qtPlayerApp = WScript.CreateObject(”QuickTimePlayerLib.QuickTimePlayerApp”);

WScript.Sleep(2000)

if (qtPlayerApp == null) {
WScript.Echo(”Unable to launch QuickTime Player!”);
WScript.Quit();
}

// Get the QuickTime controler
var qtPlayerSrc = qtPlayerApp.Players(1);

if (qtPlayerSrc == null)
WScript.Echo(”Null”);
var qtControl = qtPlayerSrc.QTControl;

// Set up the exporter and have it configured
var qt = qtPlayerSrc.QTControl.QuickTime;

qt.Exporters.Add();
var qtExporter = qt.Exporters(1);

if (destExt == “tga”){
var CodecInfoFileName = “C:\\QuickTimeCodecInfoTGA.xml”;
}else{
var CodecInfoFileName = “C:\\QuickTimeCodecInfo.xml”;
}
var FileSystemObject = WScript.CreateObject(”Scripting.FileSystemObject”);
var CodecFileInfo;

if ( FileSystemObject.FileExists(CodecInfoFileName) )
CodecFileInfo = FileSystemObject.OpenTextFile( CodecInfoFileName );

if (destExt == “tga”){

qtExporter.TypeName = “Image Sequence”

}else{

qtExporter.TypeName = “QuickTime Movie”
}

if (sourceExt == “tga”){

qtControl.CreateNewMovieFromImages( sourcePath,
25, // frame rate
true ); // rate is in frames per seconds
WScript.Echo(sourcePath)

}else if(sourceExt == “mov”){

qtPlayerSrc.OpenUrl(sourcePath)
WScript.Echo(sourcePath)

}

var qtMovie = qtControl.Movie;
qtExporter.SetDataSource( qtMovie );

if ( CodecFileInfo ) {
var xmlCodecInfoText = CodecFileInfo.ReadAll();
// cause the exporter to be reconfigured
// http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2006/tn2120.html
var tempSettings = qtExporter.Settings;
tempSettings.XML = xmlCodecInfoText;
qtExporter.Settings = tempSettings;
} else {
qtExporter.ShowSettingsDialog();

var xmlCodecInfoText = qtExporter.Settings.XML;
CodecFileInfo = FileSystemObject.CreateTextFile( CodecInfoFileName );
if ( CodecFileInfo ) {
CodecFileInfo.WriteLine(xmlCodecInfoText);
CodecFileInfo.Close();
}
}
// do the actual export
qtExporter.DestinationFileName = destPath;
qtExporter.ShowProgressDialog = true;
qtExporter.BeginExport();
qtPlayerSrc.Close();

//under here:
var qtPlayerApp = WScript.CreateObject(”QuickTimePlayerLib.QuickTimePlayerApp”);

//Add:
WScript.Sleep(7000)

This give quicktime the chance to launch properly.

I ‘ve been looking all over for such a script! — Would you be kind enough to let me know how I may change it a bit so to export a movie to a image sequence? And how does one add in one more little thing: frames-per-second in the sequence generation?

By the way, I also ran into the
“C:\qttest\qttest.js(21, 1) (null): Unspecified error ”
problem. I am on Vista Ultimate, I already tried it with administrator privilege but with no success.

Thank you again!

Question for you — Do you know if it is possible to add an audio track (i.e. a WAV or MP3) to the creation of the MOV (obviouly adding an extra bit of code to your .js)? If so, how would I do that within the QuickTime API? I’ve been searching thru the QT API at developer.apple.com, but haven’t come across anything yet. Any suggestions or directions you could point me to would be greatly appreciated!

Thx for your help!
-Dan

I had a an issue I was trying to solve with poor quality audio from my digital camera and I thought this approach to extracting the audio from my .mov on the command-line looked promising but came up against:

C:\qttest\qttest.js(21, 1) (null): Unspecified error

Regards
Richard.