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From: Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:52:17
Message-Id: 6a4a37d74b5ad1c7d6bdb89689b1fd23@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs by Paul Hartman
1 On Wed, 13 May 2009 15:55:38 -0500, Paul Hartman
2 <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Paul Hartman
4 > <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Sebastian Redl
6 >> <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at> wrote:
7 >>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
8 >>>> Sebastian Redl wrote:
9 >>>>> Hi,
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> Does anyone know a 64-bit free media player (or other utility) that
12 >>>>> can
13 >>>>> dereference reference MOVs? I can't seem to find anything via Google.
14 >>>>> I
15 >>>>> want to download a movie trailer for offline viewing, but find myself
16 >>>>> thwarted.
17 >>>>
18 >>>> A URL to an example would be helpful.
19 >>>>
20 >>> http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/princessandthefrog/hd/
21 >>>
22 >>> This page has trailers for Disney's new movie, but they're reference
23 >>> MOVs. I can't find a way to play them short of trying to install
24 >>> QuickTime.
25 >>>
26 >>> Sebastian
27 >>
28 >> Mplayer played it just fine for me. 1080p version.
29 >>
30 >
31 > If you view the reference .mov in a text editor you can see the URL of
32 > the actual video which you can download with wget or whatever...
33 >
34
35 Thank you, that worked. I don't know why I only got gibberish when I tried
36 it the first time.
37
38 Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Playing reference MOVs Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>