• HD trailers without Quicktime pro

    by  • 2006/02/20 • Download • 1 Comment

    here is the blog i got it from http://fallen-idol.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-download-trailers-from-apple.html

    Go to http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and select your trailer. Let’s say you choose http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/missionimpossibleiii/hd/

    1. On most trailer pages there are different sizes of the same trailer, so let’s say in this case we want to download the “480p” version of this trailer.
    2. In Internet Explorer click ‘View’ then select ‘Source’.
    3. In the source code look for the following section…param value=”http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/mission_impossible_3/mission_impossible_3-sb_480p.mov
    4. Copy the “href” url and using a download manager, (i recommend http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/), download this file to your desktop.
    5. In some cases this file MAY be the actual trailer, but more often than not this file is merely a pointer to the actual trailer so…
    6. Open this mov file in notepad and you should see something like this…moov rmra trmda 6rdrf url “mission_impossible_3-sb_h480p.mov rmdr rmqu
      rmvc qtim
    7. See the other MOV link? Copy this and add this to the href link above to give you
      http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/mission_impossible_3/mission_impossible_3-sb_h480p.mov
    8. VOILA! You can now download the full trailer using this link in your download manager WITHOUT THE NEED FOR QUICKTIME PRO.

    It really is a great walk through.  Just shows apple that nothing is safe when you have more than a 10% share.

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    One Response to HD trailers without Quicktime pro

    1. Kevin Opar
      2006/04/09 at 00:33

      I have Firefox, not the latest version – 1.0.1. I don’t know if this works on the latest version. It probably does, but anyway, I copied the href link into firefox, brought up the video, and clicked – file – save as- and saved the page on my desktop. The page saved as the movie clip itself, and it worked great. This is good, because I am running OS X and I don’t think freedownload manager runs on mac, and it’s one less program to have on my computer. I tried this method on Safari and it didn’t work, perhaps it works on other browsers.

      Thanks for the original advice!
      -Kevin

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