[MPlayer-advusers] mov from Apples Shoot Em Up trailer can't be shown

[Corey Hickey]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Following mov file cannot be decoded by mplayer:
> http://movies.apple.com/trailers/newline/shootemup/images/index_480p.mov

You might get a better answer from someone else, but here's what I know.

>From the file's name and size, I'm guessing that's some sort of an
interactive playlist (no quicktime here, so I might be wrong). If you go
to the page for that trailer:

http://movies.apple.com/trailers/newline/shootemup/

...you can click on the small/medium/large hyperlinks to choose a video.
>From the source of one of those pages, you can get another playlist file:

http://images.apple.com/movies/newline/shoot_em_up/shoot_em_up-tlr1_h.640.mov

...and you can look at that file with a text editor or hex editor to see
the actual file, which is:

http://images.apple.com/movies/newline/shoot_em_up/shoot_em_up-tlr1_h640w.mov


Alternatively, mplayerplug-in appears to handle the second playlist file
and plays the actual video automagically.

-Corey