[Pythonmac-SIG] Quicktime, versions, 3GPP

[Jack Jansen]

On 20 Feb 2004, at 15:23, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> does anybody know if the Quicktime modules under Carbon do always
> support the currently installed/found version of Quicktime during
> compile time, or is it a more difficult story?
>
> I'm especially interested in Quicktime 6.3 and higher with their
> ability to save in 3GPP mode for mobile devices...

It is a more difficult story (of course, I should add:-).

The quicktime modules are built against a specific version of the API, 
but they use the implementation provided by the version of QuickTime 
you have installed on your machine. In other words, if exporting to 
3GPP requires API calls that are newer than when the quicktime modules 
were built you will not be able to do it. But any new functionality 
sitting under existing APIs is immediately available.

All that said: I've greatly enhanced the quicktime modules a month or 
so ago. The code is in the Python CVS repository, and I've done it in 
such a way that even though the code is in the 2.4 sourcetree it is 
possible to build the modules for 2.3. Unfortunately I've been really 
busy ever since, and I haven't had a chance to make the modules 
available through PackageManager. I promise I will do so as soon as I 
have the time. In the mean time you can check out Python from CVS and 
use your python2.3 interpreter to run setup.py in Mac/Modules/Qt to 
build the new stuff from source.
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