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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 20:54:45
Message-Id: 58965d8a0905151353q53dfc0abpa19a78675844b77b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs by Sebastian Redl
1 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Sebastian Redl
2 <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at> wrote:
3 >
4 > On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:55:38 -0500, Paul Hartman
5 > <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Paul Hartman
7 >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl
9 >>> <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at> wrote:
10 >>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
11 >>>>> Sebastian Redl wrote:
12 >>>>>> Hi,
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>> Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that
15 >>>>>> can
16 >>>>>> dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google.
17 >>>>>> I
18 >>>>>> want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but find myself
19 >>>>>> thwarted.
20 >>>>>
21 >>>>> A URL to an example would be helpful.
22 >>>>>
23 >>>> http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/hd/
24 >>>>
25 >>>> This page has trailers for Disney's new movie, but they're reference
26 >>>> MOVs. I can't find a way to play them short of trying to install
27 >>>> QuickTime.
28 >>>>
29 >>>> Sebastian
30 >>>
31 >>> Mplayer played it just fine for me. 1080p version.
32 >>>
33 >>
34 >> If you view the reference .mov in a text editor you can see the URL of
35 >> the actual video which you can download with wget or whatever...
36 >>
37 >
38 > Thank you, that worked. I don't know why I only got gibberish when I tried
39 > it the first time.
40
41 You may also want to check out this:
42
43 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2484
44
45 (which I have not tried), it appears to maybe solve your problem a
46 different way.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>