Downloading trailers from Apple?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Oct 17 13:33:35 UTC 2010


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..
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