macOS Problems w/ QTKit on Snow Leopard Server

[CaptainKebab]

Hey all, first post so I'll make it a good one .

I have written a script to pull a frame image from a QuickTime Movie. It works great on Snow Leopard and Leopard, but I get different results on Snow Leopard Server. When pulling on the non-server OS I get the frame at the specified time. However when I execute the exact same script with the exact same movie on SL Server I get a completely black frame (not sure if its black because of an error or because its pulling the first frame - which happens to be black). Would you mind taking a look at my code and see if I'm doing anything wrong? Has anybody else experienced weird results with QTKit on SL Server?

EDIT: Also works on Leopard Server

The script is written in Ruby so I apologize if its a little hard to read for you Objective-C people. Same commands, just slightly different syntax . I appreciate the help!

require "osx/cocoa"
include OSX
OSX.require_framework 'QTKit'

# set the save path
savePath = "test.png"

# set the time code
timeCode = 889

# initailize the movie
qtmovie = OSX::QTMovie.alloc.initWithFile_error("movie.mov", nil)

# determine the timescale of the movie
timeScale = qtmovie.attributeForKey('QTMovieTimeScaleAttribute')

# build a QTTime object using the timeCode and the timeScale
time = OSX::QTMakeTime(timeCode, timeScale)

# pull the frame
frame = qtmovie.frameImageAtTime_withAttributes_error(time, {QTMovieFrameImageType => QTMovieFrameImageTypeNSImage}, nil)

# save the frame
bitmapRep = OSX::NSBitmapImageRep.alloc.initWithData(frame.TIFFRepresentation)
blob = bitmapRep.representationUsingType_properties(NSPNGFileType, nil)
blob.writeToFile_atomically(savePath, false)

 

[CaptainKebab]

Well for those of you who might have a similar issue, when I explicitly specified the gamma of the representation when saving as PNG, the frame came out fine. Weird that this must be set for SL Server and not Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Leopard Server.

 

[CaptainKebab]

Ok, well I'm back. It seems that the results are inconsistent. Having the same issues today and am now explicitly setting the gamma and the image interlaced property. Still not sure why I am getting black frames on Snow Leopard server and no other OS.

If anyone has any ideas I would be super grateful! You might even get an internet brownie for helping lol

 

[foidulus]

One thing to make sure of

is that you have to run the getFrameImageAtTime method when you can create a new window, ie the user running it is the current logged in user. Otherwise it gets weird.

Not sure why Apple made this a requirement, but they did.