How does one save a QT trailer from apple.com?

[GTaudiophile]

Can someone explain how? Or is this forbidden conversation?

 

[Sureshot324]

Not sure, but i'd like to know if there's a way to use something other than quicktime to view those trailers.

 

[n7]

I can't remember if i tried that or not, but you should check out Quicktime Alternative.

I know it allowed me to play .mov files with media player, which i thought was awesome

 

[Ecgtheow]

This is pretty easy (for me at least). In a nutshell, you want to find the URL of the trailer on Apple's server.

1. Go to the page of the trailer you want to view. For this example I will be using The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

2. Click the proper buttons to start playing the trailer.

3. The next step is to find the location of the [Ireference movie[/i]. This is a small file that points to the actual movie file. I'm not sure how that's done on Windows, but Safari has a nice built-in activity viewer that shows us what we need to know. In this case, the URL of the reference movie is http://images.apple.com/movies/disney/h...s_guide/hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_480.mov

4. Using your favorite download tool (I prefer wget) you download the reference movie. When it's finished (it should be pretty quick), open it in a text editor. The contents will be a lot of gibberish, but the important bit will look something like hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_m480.mov That's the name of the actual movie file.

5. We combine the URL of the reference movie with the actual file name to get the url http://images.apple.com/movies/disney/h..._guide/hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_m480.mov You can then download the movie with the tool of your choice.

6. There's no step 6.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Ecgtheow
This is pretty easy (for me at least). In a nutshell, you want to find the URL of the trailer on Apple's server.

1. Go to the page of the trailer you want to view. For this example I will be using The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

2. Click the proper buttons to start playing the trailer.

3. The next step is to find the location of the [Ireference movie[/i]. This is a small file that points to the actual movie file. I'm not sure how that's done on Windows, but Safari has a nice built-in activity viewer that shows us what we need to know. In this case, the URL of the reference movie is http://images.apple.com/movies/disney/h...s_guide/hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_480.mov

4. Using your favorite download tool (I prefer wget) you download the reference movie. When it's finished (it should be pretty quick), open it in a text editor. The contents will be a lot of gibberish, but the important bit will look something like hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_m480.mov That's the name of the actual movie file.

5. We combine the URL of the reference movie with the actual file name to get the url http://images.apple.com/movies/disney/h..._guide/hitchhikers_guide-tlr2_m480.mov You can then download the movie with the tool of your choice.

6. There's no step 6.

instead of using a download tool, just make a text document, and throw in an HTML link tag.

<a href="address/filename">wee</a>

save as *.html, open with y our browser, then right-click/Save As. Done.

 

[Slick5150]

With quicktime alternative, you can right click the movie when it's down downloading and do "save as quicktime video", or I'm pretty sure you can just go into your browser's cache and find it there (it will be named something weird, but look for a large file from the approximate time you loaded the page up, try to open it with quicktime, if that's it, just copy it elsewhere and rename it)

 

[kreactor]

quick time pro lets u save on the drop down arrow to the lower right corner

 

[EmperorRob]

Look at page source, then wget.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I think there's a shortcut.

1) Find the reference file, example: http://movies.apple.com/movies/lionsgate/crash/crash_480.mov
2) Add an "m" in front of the res number (480), http://movies.apple.com/movies/lionsgate/crash/crash_m480.mov
3) Use your favorite program to download.