Finally found some time to update the Download from Yahoo! tutorial. Let us know what you think.
Download From Yahoo! Tutorial Updated!
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Yahoo! Redirection Script
Yahoo! has once again changed their API. Although I have discovered how to obtain the direct download URL, it’s only a temporary URL which expires quickly. That makes it unusable on our site.
Therefore, I’ve written a redirection script which runs some javascript that obtains and redirects you the temporary URL. At which point, you should be able to view and download the trailer. Unfortunately that means if you’re using a download utility or attempt to right click and save as…, it won’t work for you anymore.
I apologize for this inconvenience and if there’s any further development, I’ll be sure to let you know.
I also plan on updating the Yahoo! download tutorial shortly.
Happy Holidays!
Update 2013/01/07: How to save Yahoo! trailers
Option 1: Open the link in a new tab/window:
Option 2: Click Download when the trailer is playing:
Duplicate Yahoo! Trailers
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Yahoo! appears to be converting all their MOV trailers into MP4, so I apologize if people are seeing duplicate trailers from our site.
Figured Out How New Yahoo! Movies Site Works
The good news: We’ve figured out how the new Yahoo! Movies site works.
The bad news: Not everything is rosy.
The biggest difference is the new HD trailers are encoded in MP4 instead of MOV. I actually prefer MP4, but the biggest issue is the quality has severely dropped. We typically encode 1080p @ 10Mbps. The new Yahoo! 1080p MP4 encodes are at 4Mbps, less than half the original quality of the old MOVs. This is almost if not as bad as YouTube encodes, and YouTube encodes aren’t watermarked. It saddens me Yahoo! has taken this path.
Another problem is Yahoo! trailers/clips aren’t always associated with a movie. For example, a new trailer they released yesterday was for Cirkus Columbia. If you tried to search for that movie, it’s not even listed in their database.
We weren’t able to automate posting new Yahoo! trailers that didn’t have a movie associated with it. Those will be done manually for now, which means delays.
As for instructions on how to find the download links for Yahoo! trailers on its new site, I’ll be updating our Download from Yahoo! tutorial when I have some free time. The process is a lot more complicated than before, so it may take some time before I publish it.
Update: I’ve posted a rough draft of the new instructions. If you have any questions regarding the instructions, feel free to ask in the comments below.
Quick Update on Yahoo
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Yahoo! appears to have done a complete revamp of their movies site. At this time, no new Yahoo HD trailers will be posted until I understand how their new site works. Unfortunately after a quick glance, I’m not sure you can even play videos in HD anymore…
Existing Yahoo! HD trailer links still work and one can only hope 1 of our 3 biggest sources of HD trailers doesn’t go away.
Old Yahoo! HD clips imported into homepage
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One thing that was missing on our homepage (previously referred to as the main catalog) was Yahoo! HD clips. I just want to announce that we’ve imported (hopefully) all the Yahoo! HD clips onto our homepage. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! (^_^x)
Quicker Yahoo! Updates and HD Clips!
For anyone that’s been monitoring Yahoo’s High Definition Trailers Page, you’ve probably noticed they’ve really been slacking off, only updating once or twice a week, while new HD trailers come out everyday.
I’ve decided to go a different route and monitor their recently added trailers page instead and this should provide quicker updates to new trailer releases.
Another good thing that came out of this is now the main catalog will also include HD clips from Yahoo!, something I had been planning to do for some time.
Enjoy!
