[mythtv-users] Problem with Apple Trailer Grabber

[Tom Flair]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm using the Ben Leto Apple Trailer Grabber script to download the Apple
> > movie trailers.  Last night, it started failing.  I am using it in the
> > download mode.  The script seems to run correctly and produces a valid
> > appletrailer.xml file, but the movie trailer files themselves fail to
> > download.  After some investigation, I discovered that the
> > 'system("/usr/bin/wget --quiet $movieLink");' line is really downloading
> a
> > file called "index.html" instead of the movie trailer file.  The value of
> > $movieLink is correct (ie, not "index.html").  Any one else having this
> > problem?
> >
> > In looking into this, I also made some modifications to the
> > myth_trailers_grabber script to detect and report these errors properly
> in
> > the appletrailer.xml file.
>
> Apple changed stuff yesterday when they released the Avatar trailer.
> Now you can only download from quicktime. If you are able to change it
> so that you can give the quicktime user agent then you will be allowed
> to download again. I know you can do it with wget:
>
> http://www.hd-trailers.net/blog/2009/08/20/direct-download-links-from-apple-are-not-working/
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Is there anyway of modifying it to download from Yahoo instead of / in
addition to Apple?     Not that it helps with the Avatar trailer, but.

Speaking of Avatar, I was really irked to find I couldn't even watch the
trailer in Firefox using mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer.
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