Viewing apple.com trailers

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some time ago I posted a message about having problems downloading
> trailers from apple.com/trailers, and just wondered if anyone knows
> now how to do this?
>
> 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?

If you just want to download it I found a little bash script[1] on the
web that does the trick quite nicely.

Richard

[1] http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/download-apple-trailer-fix/