david winter » xml http://davidwinter.me.uk you were expecting someone else? Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Extracted Enhanced Podcast Files http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/08/16/extracted-enhanced-podcast-files/ http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/08/16/extracted-enhanced-podcast-files/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:37:37 +0000 David http://davidwinter.me.uk/?p=97 Show Movie Properties Select the first ‘Text Track’ and ensure it is enabled. File > Export Select the ‘Text to QuickTime TeXML’ format You should then have a [...]]]> I finally found a way to extract the XML files from enhanced podcasts that handle chapters and links.

  1. Open up the podcast file in Quicktime.app
  2. Window > Show Movie Properties
  3. Select the first ‘Text Track’ and ensure it is enabled.
  4. File > Export
  5. Select the ‘Text to QuickTime TeXML’ format

You should then have a lovely XML file. Just need to figure a way to parse the files to get the simple stuff out. Like when to display a link/when a chapter starts, and grab the link/chapter name.

]]> http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/08/16/extracted-enhanced-podcast-files/feed/ 0 Convert a Binary Property List to XML http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/02/16/convert-a-binary-property-list-to-xml/ http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/02/16/convert-a-binary-property-list-to-xml/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:11:56 +0000 David http://davidwinter.me.uk/articles/2008/02/16/convert-a-binary-property-list-to-xml/ Since Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, preference files for applications have been stored as binary property lists. This really reduces the file size for preferences, and makes application access a lot faster. However, if you ever want to read the file as XML, you’ll need to convert it.

plutil -convert xml1 path/to/preferences.plist

Now open the file and it’ll be in beautiful, human readable, XML.

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