Downloading trailers from Apple?

[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