QuickTimeX in Applescript / Scripting Bridge

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Published on 2010-05-17T18:09:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 16:01 UTC
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I'd like to be able to grab the metadata of the currently playing file in Quicktime X using ScriptingBridge and Ruby, so far I have the following code

require 'osx/cocoa'
OSX.require_framework 'ScriptingBridge'

@app = OSX::SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX")

@app.documents.each do |movie|
  # What now?!
end

But I can't find any functions in QuickTime X's applescript dictionary to get the metadata from a document object (the same data you can see in QT's 'Show Movie Inspector' HUD) — does anyone have any ideas?

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