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An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in QuickTime
Authored by: kirkmc on Apr 10, '05 06:18:15AM

A couple of comments...

iTunes won't play QT movies, because it's not designed to do so. When you view QT movies in the iTunes Music Store, you're not actually seeing them in iTunes - you're seeing them in WebKit, which is the same service that Safari and other web tools use to display web pages. The iTMS is simply a web site, albeit one that runs within iTunes - think of it as a frame in the iTunes window.

As for QT films and attributes, you can set tag info because iTunes uses QT-compatible files. You can also set tag info for PDF files that you store in iTunes, though with PDFs, you can just open them with a double-click from within iTunes, then view them in Preview or Acrobat.

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An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in QuickTime
Authored by: swedentom on Apr 10, '05 06:40:40AM

No, iTunes does not use WebKit in any way. iTMS uses a specially designed XML format to build the pages. So in a way, you can say iTunes is actually designed to play movies.



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An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in QuickTime
Authored by: anamexis on Apr 10, '05 03:33:37PM

Perhaps you've heard of XSLT.
It's stylesheets to display XML in any way, and it's fully supported by WebKit.

So yes, iTMS does use WebKit.



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An AppleScript to open iTunes videos in QuickTime
Authored by: wootest on Apr 10, '05 05:17:24PM
Actually, *no, it doesn't*. Here's Dave Hyatt, a chief engineer of Safari (and WebKit) saying it doesn't. My guess is it's something using some of QuickTime's abilities - I once saw an iPod campaign site by Apple where QuickTime was used a bit like Flash.

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