Comments on: Direct Download Links from Apple Are Not Working

By: Krunk

Krunk — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:28:19 +0000

That’s because Apple changed their domain awhile back from http://www.apple.com to trailers.apple.com

Give this a try:
wget -U QuickTime http://trailers.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov

By: ssss

ssss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:23:34 +0000

wget -U “QuickTime/7.6.2″ http://www.apple.com/movies/fox/avatar/avatar2009aug0820a-tsr_h1080p.mov

NOT WORK ANYMORE

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:50:15 +0000

Thanks a lot! I’m using free download manager and changing the user agent to QuickTime/7.6.2 does the trick.

By: Krunk4Ever! » Blog Archive » How to download HD Trailers from Apple.com - After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth.

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:56:45 +0000

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By: Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:24:31 +0000

That QuickTime Alternative is for Win32 (thus less handy, but I should try it in WINE.) I can write scripts to do the download managing, but there’s no guaranteeing Apple won’t move the release the way it presumably does on the list’s RSS URIs.

The scripters fixed things (mostly,) with recent exceptions (apparent from the 24.2kb item size) being (Trailers to):
Sucker Punch
Soul Kitchen
Sinbad the Fifth Voyage
…
The Extra Man
then after Bran Nue Dae and La Soga (OK; 87 and 182MB):
Charlie St. Cloud (Featurette)
The Expendables (Pt. 4 Fighting)
then Let Me In (Red Band Trailer) is OK
Saw 3D among other 24.2kb results
and the latest few among the RSS entries that look short on Vuze are
Step Up 3D (clip), and
Battle
It would be neat if new items were generated, but there’s not much controlling the fact that the files have the same name (causing Vuze to go ‘oh hai I got that 23k it didn’t work out.’)

Maybe it’s Apple making RSS look dumber than atom (which…it is,) maybe it’s some curation on the list generation against 3D clips with no time dedicated to getting viewers used to the matte. We should know all the love given to Piranha, their needs, habits and ecosystems in the film, and it just doesn’t come through in the trailer. Was Amazing Grace really all headshots?

By: v1ewer

v1ewer — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:42:14 +0000

To play properly all video/audio formats on WinOS 32 + 64 bit [Win2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7], one has only to install K-Lite Codec Pack Mega (which installs also RealPlayer/RealMedia codecs) [free]:
http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm
also here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm
on top of QTM Alternative [free]:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
Then use MPC-HC (Media Player Classic Home Cinema) to play anything/any format [including 720p/1080p], even with DXVA2 (GPU shaders) turned on:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/accelerate-x264-1080p-movies-over-the-gpu-guide/
and make use of DD (AC3, AC3 enh, DTS or DTS-HD) 5.1/7.1 [digital output thru optical cable to DD 5.1/7.1 "stereo" amp + dedicated speakers].
HTH

By: v1ewer

v1ewer — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:33:35 +0000

QuickTime Alternative installs current QTM codecs [without Apple's bloat] and its own download manager, which takes care of all these problems [free]:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm
Integrates well with all web browsers.
HTH

By: Steve Nordquist

Steve Nordquist — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:35:13 +0000

What’s with the script making the torrents for the hd-trailers.net RSS (which e.g. feeds Vuze subscribers?) It’s accepting the Apple error HTML (22.1kB trailers would be a neat development, mind) and cranking out a nicely packaged .mov full of Javascript (and some HTML.)

By: Caesar

Caesar — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:31:59 +0000

Thanks for the info. It really worked. quickplayer is useless, it only plays .mov files and nothing else.

By: Krunk

Krunk — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:36:11 +0000

@filmy Hmmmm, flag before url has always worked for me. Which wget are you using?

By: filmy

filmy — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:41:04 +0000

use:

wget http://trailers.apple.com/movies/independent/thescientist/thescientist-tlr1_h1080p.mov -U QuickTime

not the syntax as listed here at hd-trailers. Flag before URL doesn’t work.

By: Krunk

Krunk — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:46:02 +0000

@DM: Ah yes, Apple added some javascript magic earlier this week. You can still right click the HD links and copy the url and modify it that way.

Otherwise you can append “includes/playlists/web.inc” after the trailer page for more information. (i.e. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/toystory3/includes/playlists/web.inc )

By: DM

DM — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:24:25 +0000

Seems it’s broken again so you can’t get them from their RSS feed? They’ve started using javascript on the pages and have no links to the .mov files in the HTML… it’s all AJAX apple protected stuff.

By: Buddy Luuv

Buddy Luuv — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:58:50 +0000

NOTE: A few links also have the following start:
http://trailers.apple.com/405/us/media/trailers/independent/….

By: Buddy Luuv

Buddy Luuv — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:50:27 +0000

@ actionad
Apple has changed since I was last on the site in Feb 2010 from:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/….
to:
http://trailers.apple.com/movies/independent/….

By: Krunk

Krunk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:19:38 +0000

@actionad: After you modified the user-agent string, all the Apple links on our website should work.

By: actionad

actionad — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:48:07 +0000

ok I’ve modified the agent string, and thats all good but you still don’t explain how to get the correct links for the trailers. I just tried these two trailers, and cannot work out the links to download the trailers:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/killers/
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/repomen/

By: Krunk

Krunk — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:11:18 +0000

@Michael, on our site (hd-trailers.net), right click any trailer link and click save as…

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:51:42 +0000

Krunk;

I installed the adon (user switcher) and still get the clip playing in QT. How am I supposed to save it? Again, I DON’T have QT pro, and am on a Mac. There’s no menu save nor anything that I can see in FF. This last part, the saving, is the part I don’t seem to have access to. Any help?

By: Krunk

Krunk — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:48:54 +0000

This site has a step-by-step instruction on setting it up with Firefox: http://whatsmyuseragent.com/SwitchingUserAgents.asp#FF

As noted above:

Create a new User Agent by clicking on New > New User Agent… Clear out all the fields and copy and paste QuickTime/7.6.2 into the Description and User Agent fields.

Let me know if you need more help.