Downloading trailers from Apple?

[Alex]

Hi,

I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/

I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
any reference to where it is coming from.

Both firefox and chromium do the same thing. I've tried configuring
the file associations, particularly those for .mov files to "Save As"
instead of playing, but it has no apparent effect.

Pointers greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Saturday, October 16, 2010 22:06:51 Alex wrote:
> I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
>
> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
>
> I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> any reference to where it is coming from.

$ file conviction-tlr1_1080p.mov 
conviction-tlr1_1080p.mov: Apple QuickTime multiple URLs

It's essentially a QuickTime playlist, containing the actual address of the 
movie encoded somehow. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to read its content. 
If you buy the Mac and the QuickTime player, I guess it would read the address 
and play the movie for you. Otherwise, I don't know.

Maybe someone else can help out.

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Michael Miles]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Saturday, October 16, 2010 22:06:51 Alex wrote:
> > I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> > download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
> >
> > http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
> >
> > I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> > which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> > whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> > any reference to where it is coming from.
>
> $ file conviction-tlr1_1080p.mov
> conviction-tlr1_1080p.mov: Apple QuickTime multiple URLs
>
> It's essentially a QuickTime playlist, containing the actual address of the
> movie encoded somehow. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to read its content.
> If you buy the Mac and the QuickTime player, I guess it would read the address
> and play the movie for you. Otherwise, I don't know.
>
> Maybe someone else can help out.
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko

You may want to try Downloadhelper 4.7.3 which is a Firefox extension 
add on that will download flv and save it or convert it.

It may work for quicktime mov files as well. Worth a go

[Ankur Sinha]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
>
> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
>
> I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> any reference to where it is coming from.
>
> Both firefox and chromium do the same thing. I've tried configuring
> the file associations, particularly those for .mov files to "Save As"
> instead of playing, but it has no apparent effect.
>
> Pointers greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Alex

Hello,

You might want to try out these packages:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643392

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643391

They're still under review though.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
>
> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
>
> I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> any reference to where it is coming from.
>
> Both firefox and chromium do the same thing. I've tried configuring
> the file associations, particularly those for .mov files to "Save As"
> instead of playing, but it has no apparent effect.
>
> Pointers greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Alex

This won't really help but the trailer plays fro me from firefox when I
click Watch Now..

[JD]

On 10/17/2010 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> > download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
> >
> > http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
> >
> > I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> > which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> > whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> > any reference to where it is coming from.
> >
> > Both firefox and chromium do the same thing. I've tried configuring
> > the file associations, particularly those for .mov files to "Save As"
> > instead of playing, but it has no apparent effect.
> >
> > Pointers greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
>
> This won't really help but the trailer plays fro me from firefox when I
> click Watch Now..

So, you must have a plugin for it.
Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used
for .mov extentions and is it enabled?
I have latest F13 fedora and
MIME Type          Description Suffixes Enabled
video/quicktime  Quicktime   mov       Yes
but the video link referred to by Alex does not play.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:38 -0700, JD wrote:
> On 10/17/2010 06:33 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 17:06 -0400, Alex wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using FC13 with the latest firefox and chrome, and neither can
> > > download the Apple movie trailers, such as this one:
> > >
> > > http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/conviction/
> > >
> > > I've selected Watch Now->Download->1080p. It downloads a 80b file,
> > > which apparently contains a path to the actual MOV file, but not the
> > > whole file. It also starts to play the audio in the background without
> > > any reference to where it is coming from.
> > >
> > > Both firefox and chromium do the same thing. I've tried configuring
> > > the file associations, particularly those for .mov files to "Save As"
> > > instead of playing, but it has no apparent effect.
> > >
> > > Pointers greatly appreciated.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alex
> >
> > This won't really help but the trailer plays fro me from firefox when I
> > click Watch Now..
>
> So, you must have a plugin for it.
> Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used
> for .mov extentions and is it enabled?
> I have latest F13 fedora and
> MIME Type          Description Suffixes Enabled
> video/quicktime  Quicktime   mov       Yes
> but the video link referred to by Alex does not play.

video/quicktime QuickTime video mov Yes

Thhe above is what I have in about:plugins, is what you have so it is
mysterious. Except it looks like the video is being played by:
totem-plugin-vi

[Alex]

Hi,
> > So, you must have a plugin for it.
> > Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used
> > for .mov extentions and is it enabled?
> > I have latest F13 fedora and
> > MIME Type          Description Suffixes Enabled
> > video/quicktime  Quicktime   mov       Yes
> > but the video link referred to by Alex does not play.
>
> video/quicktime QuickTime video mov Yes

Yes, the totem plugin is also what I have, and don't recall installing
it, so I believe it was already installed?

The video does play for me through the "Watch" method. I've tried
disabling the mov file extension from the
about:config->extensions.dta.filters.deffilter-vid.test, but it still
played the audio with no video, and didn't prompt to "Save As".

Thanks,
Alex

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 19:07 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> > > So, you must have a plugin for it.
> > > Can you browse to about:plugins to see what plugin is used
> > > for .mov extentions and is it enabled?
> > > I have latest F13 fedora and
> > > MIME Type          Description Suffixes Enabled
> > > video/quicktime  Quicktime   mov       Yes
> > > but the video link referred to by Alex does not play.
> >
> > video/quicktime QuickTime video mov Yes
>
> Yes, the totem plugin is also what I have, and don't recall installing
> it, so I believe it was already installed?
>
> The video does play for me through the "Watch" method.

Now I am confused. It by clicking on the Watch I get the video to play.

[JD]

On 10/17/2010 04:01 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Thhe above is what I have inabout:plugins, is what you have so it is
> mysterious. Except it looks like the video is being played by:
> totem-plugin-vi

Well, does it play?
I would not mind if it is played by something other
that what the plugin says it should be played by.
But I get no playback either, let alone being able
to download the stream - which is what the original
OP (Alex) complained about.