Viewing apple.com trailers

[suvayu ali]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Alex <mysqlstudent at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can view them without a problem, but when choosing the download
> option, it appears to download them, but immediately starts to play
> them, but there is no video. There is only audio.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/truegrit/
>
> Perhaps there's a firefox plugin, or you know how to get something
> like VLC to play them from the URL?
>

Do you have all the required codecs? I use the
gecko-mediaplayer-plugin and it downloads and starts playing in a
separate instance of gnome-mplayer just fine. I can then right click
the video and save it. Does it work differently for you?

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Suvayu

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