[gentoo-user] Re: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

[7v5w7go9ub0o]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 09/01/2009 03:00 AM, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> On 31 Aug 2009, at 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/31/2009 05:00 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
>>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>> On 08/30/2009 10:59 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
>>>>>> 64bit Linux, AFAICT, does not yet play .mov files
>>>>>
>>>>> They play fine here.
>>>>
>>>> Are you able to drag a link from this page:
>>>> <http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/district9/> and
>>>> play it on mplayer?
>>>
>>> No. Those are reference files (only a few kB big), not the real
>>> *.mov files.
>>
>> `mplayer -playlist /path/to/reference-file.mov` might be worth a
>> go.
>
> Apple's server doesn't allow access to the actual movies (if you try
> to open the URL to the real *.mov file, you get redirected to some
> movie ads page).  I guess it checks for the QuickTime player's user
> agent.
>
> So I can't try to test if those *.mov files play OK here since I
> can't even get to them.
>
>

Yep........ you're right about the user agent! Apparently a quicktime
user agent is a recent requirement - which explains why mplayer worked
for me a few months ago (before going to 64bit). One can set the user
agent string used by mplayer with  "-user-agent <string>"; or via
smplayer as well.

So setting "-user-agent QuickTime/7.6.2" will allow one to stream using
mplayer; using wget -U "QuickTime/7.6.2" allows one to download the
.mov first.

Also, rumor has it that if one adds quicktime to the user agent string
of his browser, he can stream the apple movies within the browser
(something I'm trying to get away from) )  this page describes how to
get it to work:

<http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/2009/08/20/direct-download-links-from-apple-are-not-working/>

HTH