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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:40:52
Message-Id: gufeoj$c1r$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs by Sebastian Redl
1 Sebastian Redl wrote:
2 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Sebastian Redl wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that can
7 >>> dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google. I
8 >>> want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but find myself
9 >>> thwarted.
10 >> A URL to an example would be helpful.
11 >>
12 > http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/hd/
13 >
14 > This page has trailers for Disney's new movie, but they're reference
15 > MOVs. I can't find a way to play them short of trying to install QuickTime.
16
17 I have www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-0.9.5 installed. It's an MPlayer
18 plugin for Firefox and other compatible browsers. This means that the
19 video played immediately in the browser (I clicked the 720p version).
20 In the video, I right clicked in it while it was playing and selected
21 "Copy location". This resulted in:
22
23 http://movies.apple.com/movies/disney/princessandthefrog/princessandthefrog-tsr2_h720p.mov
24
25 being placed in my clipboard. I hope this will be helpful to you :)