[MPlayer-users] how to download trailers from apple.com?

Dominik Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Thu Nov 28 01:17:02 CET 2002


On Thursday, 28 November 2002, Arpi wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> > I searched my archives and found a thread from May, which is far enough
> > away so that I ask this question again ;)
> > 
> > How do I download trailers from www.apple.com/trailers/ ? If I just
> > look for the plugin URL and download that one I only get a small .mov
> > that contains several more URL, but none of those gives me the trailer
> 
> they do.
> or just replace the filmtitle_ref.mov name in the url with
> filmtitle_m480.mov (or any bitrate instead of 480, only 'standard' ones)

AFAIK that's not bitrate, but horizontal resolution. :-)

> i mean the url you get from the trailer dload page, including that ~80 char
> long random string.

Yup. Viewing the source of the download page helps here.
 
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