Unable to play apple site trailers

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#1

I am unable to play any trailer from Apple - Movie Trailers site. I went to location Apple - QuickTime - Troubleshooting to check if quicktime was installed correctly. I got the first quicktime logo which said that it’s installed correctly but the animated logo (bottom right) showed the picture of a computer monitor instead of the animated quicktime logo. Which obviously means that i cannot stream video - my problem exactly.

I have a broadband connection and as an example when i go to the location Apple - iPhone - Gallery - TV Ads ; i have the website player trying to access the video but just keeps accessing it - never plays. I can play quicktime videos locally from my drive without any problems. I have struggling with this for the last 1 wk on every conceivable linux/Suse forum ; but without any success. I have mplayer , mplayerplug-in, libquicktime, libquicktime0, gnome-mplayer, gecko-media player already installed. Besides, i have totem, mplayer, mplayerplug-in, vlc-mozillaplugin installed.

How do i stream the trailers?

As a side note ; i found that totem is the one that tries to play my quicktime files; whereas totem is unable to play the .mov files locally for me. Vlc player works fine for .mov files. How do i make Vlc player stream my quicktime media may also solve my problem !

#2

ddas4 adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 10 Aug 2009 12:26 to write:

>
> I am unable to play any trailer from ‘Apple - Movie Trailers’
> (http://www.apple.com/trailers/) site. I went to location ‘Apple -
> QuickTime - Troubleshooting’
> (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/troubleshooting/) to check if quicktime
> was installed correctly. I got the first quicktime logo which said that
> it’s installed correctly but the animated logo (bottom right) showed the
> picture of a computer monitor instead of the animated quicktime logo.
> Which obviously means that i cannot stream video - my problem exactly.

I can get that to work in konqueror but not in FF, it crashes FF dead.

What browser are you trying??

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#3

Both Konqueror (KDE4) and Firefox crash at Apple - QuickTime - Troubleshooting when using the MPlayer plugin. Every other plug-in tried (xine, gxine and vlc) fails to work.

So… if the MPlayer plugin crashes and others don’t work (perhaps totem? too much gnome deps to me…) I don’t see any solution. Which plug-in do you use to get Konqueror to work?

#4

Hi
Install the totem-plugin which includes the narrowspace plugin (aka
quicktime stuff)

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#5

RedDwarf adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 10 Aug 2009 14:46 to write:

>
> Both Konqueror (KDE4) and Firefox crash at ‘Apple - QuickTime -
> Troubleshooting’ (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/troubleshooting/) when
> using the MPlayer plugin. Every other plug-in tried (xine, gxine and
> vlc) fails to work.
>
> So… if the MPlayer plugin crashes and others don’t work (perhaps
> totem? too much gnome deps to me…) I don’t see any solution. Which
> plug-in do you use to get Konqueror to work?
>
>

Well that is the question, I have quite a few in the plugin list and have
tweaked a few myself.

The Adpbe flash 64bit
mplyer
moonshine
kaffiiene
realplayer
vlc

and probably a few others.

But these are used by ff as well so why ff crashes and konq does not is
another factor.

There was a post a week or two back about the BBC reloaded or something
where it showed the same prob, I could get lonq to play but ff would bomb
with exactly the same pluginss.

I did shift a couple about and remove some links to allow priority to a
given player or codec to get even konq to work 90%

Don`t ask me what exactly I did as I have had a sleep since then :slight_smile:

Oh disregard all that tosh above…

This is a different machine with just normal stuff, was a brand new install
last week so other than putting the 64bit, and moonshine I do not think
there is any real difference from a normal install, all up to date with KDE
4.3 latest ( a mix of repos though so maybe it could be from one of the more
cutting edge repos )

Please don`t ask for my repo list as I would not like to be held responsible
for the ensuing clamour about b0rked machines :slight_smile:

Plus I don`t think a 10 page listing will go down well on the forum :slight_smile:

HTH

Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum

#6

I use FF 3.5.2.

Mine is a fresh OpenSuse install (switched from F11 - and the trailers never worked there either).
Ok, i tried a bit and got the pop up (dark gray color media player kind of box that you would get on IE) on FF with the apple trailers site. But it just does not play. I have installed the Mediaconnectivity plugin of FF and have configured vlcplayer to play the .mov files. That works.

However i cannot stream directly from this dark gray media player popup. I also found that totem attempts to play the directly streaming video whereas i want vlc to play that. Is there a way i can change this default from totem to vlc? I want to achieve this without uninstalling totem. If i can do this and test ; i think we can play the .mov on FF.

The reason i want vlc to play is because totem cannot play .mov files from my local drive either.

#7

@malcolmlewis: The totem plugin is installed ; but does not work even for playing .mov from my local drive. Vlc works just fine with the mplayer plugins.

#8

This bug is all about the place https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayerplug-in/+bug/360222 and on further looking going on comments here FS#14155 : [mplayer-plugin] Apple’s trailers crashes browser the mplayerplugin is becoming depreciated. Having the same I used the gecko-mediaplayer works fine here. Kevin’s World: mplayerplug-in being changed to gecko-mediaplayer

You do have it but that looks like a rather old version PackMan :: Package details for gecko-mediaplayer brings in something called gmplayer but seems not a lot more than gtk gui, didn’t bring in any gnome deps as far as I can see. Fixes the problem for me on 11.1 lxde.

#9

I am getting the video player screen which comes as a popup on FF. I uninstalled the totem player plugin and boom ; FF crashed on playing a .mov trailer. I installed totem plugin back ; the trailers didn’t play , but FF stopped crashing.

I tried changing the quicktime default player using the preferred applications tab of FF. But i just couldn’t use vlc player to play the trailers.

Does anyone know how to make standalone totem player to play .mov files? My totem says “The playback of this movie requires the following decoders which are not installed:
MPEG-4 AAC decoder
MPEG-4 Video decoder”

#10

Honestly, I don’t think I would give the time of day to any site that is so ‘B’ awkward!
You can probably fetch most of that stuff via Vuze anyway.

#11

Crashes FF here too and I’m either too lazy or too busy to fix it. I found a workaround though. Install Greasemonkey plugin for FF and install this javascript for Greasmonkey Apple Trailer Download for Greasemonkey

when you visit the trailers page, popups will show and you can right-click on them and save the trailer to disk, then watch it with your video player

#12

The gecko-mediaplayer plugin plays it fine.

#13

The problem is not just apple site; but other sites with quicktime streaming. I have also logged something with the FF guys but no response from them yet.

#14

I just got the totem-plugin to play the QuickTime trailers by changing the installed libquicktime to the libquicktime0 from Packman.

Was I shocked that the trailer had sound because although audio is working in everything else now, totem has no sound for anything else other than quicktime!

Banshee plays mp3’s, the KDE system notifications play, Amarok 2 (in KDE 4.3) plays. And now Quicktime in my browser. But try the windows media trailers and the totem plugin just gives video.

I had already purged by removing totem and the plugin before installing all the Packman gstreamer stuff and w32codecs then reinstalling the totem stuff, So it should be working.

It is better than several months ago when I last tried OpenSUSE and the totem-plugin only showed a blank screen.

Running in VMWare now on a host Debian Lenny to check out KDE 4.3.

Anyway, as long as you already have all the Packman players and codecs try installing their libquicktime0 too.

I wonder if I can fix the totem windows media playing only the video somehow? Well, at least I know it’s likely some gstreamer thing instead of wondering whether totem just didn’t have audio period. That’s progress.

#15

The crash is caused by an outdated mplayerplug-in that was patched back in May, you can grab the mplayerplug-in daily (the CVS) and recompile it yourself, works fine with the latest version.

Incidentally;
mplayerplug-in-3.55_svn-0.chrys.1

/flex.

#16

@dahveed3: Visit your installs and search for ‘gstreamer’. Check for the version of gstreamers installed on your machine. Make sure:
1> they are all 0.10.12 or above wherever a higher version is available (it is okay if a version 0.10.12 or higher is not available)
2> they are all from packman repo as much as possible

Check totem site in minimum requirements section for more clarification Totem.

My OpenSuse 11.1 is currently a perfect multimedia machine - there is hardly anything that i cannot play with it and i achieved it with a bit of fiddling around. I know there are people who cannot play/stream quicktime. I was in the same boat a few days back myself.

P.S. Belive me i even have some old .dat files that 11.1 plays without a glitch :wink: and streams video from almost anywhere on the web with FF. I am currently looking for stuff that OpenSuse cannot play :\

#17

Is this the site you recommend users go to in order to get the latest tarball who wish to try getting apple trailers?
mplayerplug-in

#18

Hmm … that daily source code mplayerplug-in tarball did not work for me. Firefox still crashed upon trying to play an apple trailer with the mplayerplug-in.

#19

I should qualify that by saying it was a 64-bit openSUSE-11.1 install/PC.

#20

mediaplayerconnectivity seems to work for me
using mplayer