How to add mov media key in Mac OS X 10.6.2

Asked By Jody Akerly 80 points N/A Posted on - 09/16/2012

Hi, does anybody have luck to add move media key for QuickTime X player using command line in Mac OS X 10.6.2? I inputted "qtdefaults" in command line application, but instead of movie there is black frame like move media key is missed…Could you please advice something?

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Answered By Niktha Busch 0 points N/A #156567

How to add mov media key in Mac OS X 10.6.2

 

Hey Jody,

 

To solve your problem, open up the terminal and add the following lines –

 

pcastaction encode –input=INFILE –output=OUTFILE –encoder=iphone

Or, you can run the following sample script-

 

#! /bin/sh for FILE in /PATH/TO/FOLDER/OF/MOVIES/*; do /usr/bin/pcastaction encode –basedir="/PATH/TO/FOLDER/OF/MOVIES" –input="$FILE" –output="$FILE".m4v –encoder=iphone done

 

Hope this will help.

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Answered By Eville bandler 5 points N/A #156568

How to add mov media key in Mac OS X 10.6.2

 

Hi Jody Akerly,

It is more suitable to use QuickTime Player 7.6.3 instead of older versions. You can do it easily by inserting the “Snow Leopard” cd on your optical device. But if you prefer using your current version, then you can use the following process. Check if your syntax is correct. As they are case sensitive, double check the input. Also try the following command “qtdefaults write MediaKeys category key”. Here, category & key are both case sensitive. So, check & double check before inputting. This should solve your problem.

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Answered By Scott Douglas 5 points N/A #156569

How to add mov media key in Mac OS X 10.6.2

 

Please try the following code

qtdefaults write Mediakeys category key

Above code please replace the word category and the working key. Category and the key are case sensitive. Therefore be careful when replacing the category and the key.After doing this , type following code in the command line to check the Media Keys actually are there.

qtdefaults read category

For example : if your category SoftVideo and your key is 123456, you would enter as shown below.

qtdefaults write Mediakeys SoftVideo 123456

Try this and let me know.

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• Posted on - 12/07/2012
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