[mythtv-users] Apple Trailer Downloader

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 21:19:48 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:34 AM, John Payne <mythtv at payne.ch> wrote:


Nice to see this idea come to fruition, I am not enough of a coder to
do more than a rough hack of it, and too lazy ooops I mean busy to
have even started!


> There also needs be some checking in case the user cancels the streaming
> before it's finished I guess. Not sure how to check that - I'll need to
> experiment with mplayer for return codes etc. If it is cancelled (or fails)
> I won't change anything as the download is probably incomplete or unwanted.


The movie file size is in the apple xml file I think.

<preview>
<large filesize="15590852">
http://movies.apple.com/movies/fox/australia/australia-tlrc_h640w.mov
</large>
</preview>

Could this be used to test the file on your machine?

Not sure where you would store it.


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