gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » trailers http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Download Movie Trailers With HD Trailers Downloaderhttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/15/download-movie-trailers-with-hd-trailers-downloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/15/download-movie-trailers-with-hd-trailers-downloader/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:11:25 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=24566 Movie Trailers are useful for consumers to decide if a movie seems good enough to watch in a cinema or to be purchased. Several Internet resources are available where movie buffs can view the latest movie trailers, such as Youtube and Apple’s Trailer website. Ghacks has published guides for users who want to download movie trailers from Youtube or Apple Trailers to their home computers. An alternative is the HD Trailers Downloader which is an automated program to download the latest HD movie trailers to the computer.

HD Trailers Downloader crawls the popular hd-trailers.net blog for the latest movie trailer releases and downloads them automatically. A configuration file can be used to define the quality preference (1080p, 720p or 480p), download location or automatic deletion of trailers. The downloader will by default download movie trailers in 720p if available, or in 480p if not. Movie buffs with fast internet connections might want to edit the configuration to add 1080p for the best quality possible.

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A double-click on the executable will open a command line window that details the progress of the downloads. It will display the current movie trailer being downloaded and status messages to inform the user if trailers or other videos have been skipped or successfully downloaded.

The program recognizes already existing trailers, which are skipped automatically. It can also resume previous sessions to download trailers which have not been downloaded completely the last time the program was run.

HD Trailers Downloader is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. The program seems to require the Microsoft .net Framework but there is no information on the homepage regarding this requirement. It can be downloaded from Codeplex.

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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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