I do not like Quicktime that much. I hate to use additional clients next to VLC to be able to view certain movies on websites. I also do not like the fact that you can’t save movies easily if you do not use Quicktime Pro. I discovered a method that makes it possible to save movies from the Apple Trailer website to your local drive and watch them in your favorite movie player afterwards. I use VLC for this purpose but Quicktime Alternative for instance should be fine as well.
I’m going to explain the method using an example. I’m really looking forward to seeing the movie 300 which will come out in march. A new trailer for that movie was released a few days ago and I want to download it to my computer to be able to watch it again without re-downloading it. The first step would be to visit the apple movie trailers website.
Click on the link to the movie 300. The main page of the movie shows up where you can select the resolution of the trailer that you want to view. Right-click and select view page source. Find either 480, 720 or 1080. Skip the first and copy the second url that you find.
480 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_480p.mov
720 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_720p.mov
1080 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_1080p.mov
Add the letter h before the resolution, it would like this
480 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h480p.mov
720 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h720p.mov
1080 – http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/300/300-tlr1_h1080p.mov
This is the direct link to the movie. You could use a download manager to download it or save the page once the movie has been completely loaded.
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hey.. thanks for the info… quite useful..
thanks man, yu r a genius!
thanks for the tip!
cool !! it still works as of Jan-07-2009 !
Thnakx
it really helps! thanks.
moronic apple trying to fool all of us before.
Thanks, worked great!
danke
Doesn’t work with all the movies from Apple.
ie
http://movies.apple.com/movies/wb/theinventionoflying/theinventionoflying-tlr1_720p.mov
How do I get these ones to work?
I have been doing this for years, but ever since Thursday evening (Aug 20, 2009) I can’t download trailers using this method anymore. I am guessing some update was applied with the Avatar teaser (although I did get the Avatar teaser using this method Thursday morning).
Does anyone know the new way to download trailers from Apple?
I’ve found a way to make it work.
Add the ‘MOV Download’ tool. I tried that today and it works 100% on the Apple site.
After you install it, you just right click on the Apple HD link and the tool gives you extra options to download the movie and you save it to your desktop.
http://www.codecguide.com/
is where to get it.
Works like a charm. :-))
CyberG4: i’m having ur problem too.. its sad :S
I came across this page http://tinyurl.com/m4nqu2 which seems to suggest Apple is checking the user agent now. You can get a user agent switcher and then DL the old way (just switch your user agent before you DL), or the MOV download tool that Stuart suggested was updated to work with the updated restrictions
Here is the solution, they changed something, but this worked for me.
http://sandmaxprime.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/download-apple-trailers/