What’s (not) in the Quicktime 7.3 Update

brunerd Apple, OS X

This one is weird…
With the new Quicktime you get movie windows with no border on the left or right, you also get some new Automator actions…
/System/Library/Automator/Enable or Disable Tracks.action
/System/Library/Automator/Hint Movies.action
/System/Library/Automator/New Audio Capture.action
/System/Library/Automator/New Video Capture.action
/System/Library/Automator/Pause Capture.action
/System/Library/Automator/Play Movies.action
/System/Library/Automator/Start Capture.action
/System/Library/Automator/Stop Capture.action

That is, if you are in Tiger. If you on Leopard, these files are copied down but are not added to Automator. If you do add them manually (drag them in, double click them, open from Terminal), they won’t do anything.

Now if you look in an .action you will see its just a folder, like an app bundle. The meat of an action is in here /Contents/Resources/main.scpt and the Tiger and Leopard Quicktime actions are byte for byte the same (use md5 for a checksum)

The only concern is though what string you find inside (these are “Run-Only” compiled Applescripts, so no plain text):
01cd Tiger
028b 'Tiger:Applications:QuickTime Player.app
02E9 T i g e r

Hmmm, is it just me or should the strings Tiger not be in a Leopard component? Especially when they have two seperate packages for the Tiger and Leopard version of Quicktime 7.3? Come on Quicktime 7.3.1!