I installed the adon (user switcher) and still get the clip playing in QT. How am I supposed to save it? Again, I DON’T have QT pro, and am on a Mac. There’s no menu save nor anything that I can see in FF. This last part, the saving, is the part I don’t seem to have access to. Any help?

As noted above:

Create a new User Agent by clicking on New > New User Agent… Clear out all the fields and copy and paste QuickTime/7.6.2 into the Description and User Agent fields.

Let me know if you need more help.

Added the user switcher to Firefox (3.5.6). Could you walk me through the procedure? I don’t usually dl using FF (I usually use Safari on my G5 iMac, running Tiger) and don’t have the method for dl with FF. I’m using QT 7.5 and not the pro version, which allows me to dl and save directly from QT (as opposed to the regular version that I’m using). So, the problem is saving in QT since the movies are not playing in FF.

Thanks.

No, I don’t have an aversion per se to using other programs and I will probably give the other a try, I just thought there was an easy fix that didn’t include yet another program. I used to be able to grab the odd video clip from the Activity window and it’s pretty simple, but this hd trailer was so much better re quality, I thought to try and save it and the usual method isn’t working. Just thought there was an easier workaround but will give the other a try.

I also figured there were smarter people than myself that might know exactly what is happening re the cache/activity window and thought I’d step in line and learn something, ya know? No disrespect meant, either! I’ll give the other a try. Btw, is it going to work on my G5?

The QT cache method is interesting, but as you noted, QT corrupts the file by the time it finishes downloading it.

I’m not using anything related to ‘user agent’; I’m just finding the QT cache and when I see one that is most recent and a very large file, I copy it to my desktop (usually, this is a partial as I look while it’s still downloading to play through QT) and then, if I double click the file, it plays. But then, when the file is complete and I copy that, then rename it including adding the extension .mov, upon trying to open it, QT tells me it’s not a movie format. Soooo, that’s the process I went through. Something changes when the browser is shut down because the partial IS the movie exactly as I’m seeing it in QT.

Get wget for windows
make a batch file (.bat) in the wget directory
copy/paste as many lines of ‘wget -U “QuickTime/7.6.2″‘ as you need

Go to apple.com/trailers, search for the trailers I wanted (in HD), open them in tabs, copy/paste the 720p links
Then when I had all the desired trailers I’d replace ‘_720p’ with ‘_h720p’.
Run the script, and voila – it’s automatically downloading all the trailers you picked.

got your reply and tried the adon; not working with either Safari nor Firefox. Having the link didn’t give me any file to download in Safari’s Activity window and in Firefox, using DownloadThemAll gave only an 81k file. Where is this small menu supposed to appear? When I right click, I don’t get anything other than save the link in various ways. Point is, I need a download file url for the full 150+Mb clip, in this case. I can get the whole file in the QT cache, but something happens once the browser is closed and I’ve renamed the file with the extension .mov to insure QT will open it up again. When I click, let’s say, on the 720p option at Apple’s trailer website for Avatar, Qt wants to play it for me. If I can get the browser to play it, there should be a file loading as viewed through Activity window of the Safari browser. The name of the link is there, but no .swf, .mov, .mp4 etc file shows. Qt is in control at this point, which is why I went looking in the Library>caches>quicktime and rooted about for the latest cache item over 10mb. I can find it, but can’t seem to save it AS A MOVIE file after the browser is closed.

But, if you can run me through an exact procedure whereby your adon works, by all means, ’splain away, Lucy!’

It’ll show a small menu with the link to the video file.

Sorry

The cache file name will be a random string of numbers and letters. I simply selected the cache file, copied it from my Library>caches>QuickTime>(folder containing the file; you have to manually search for it) to my desktop. There, I renamed it Avatar trailer and added the extension .mov

When my comp asked if I wanted to change the extension to .mov from whatever it was, I simply clicked yes. That did it.

Michael

I’m not having issues with the referrer. I even tried setting the referrer to http://www.hd-trailers.net and was able to download it.

curl -I -A QuickTime -e http://www.hd-trailers.net http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/ironman2/ironman2-z7r459g-tlr1_h1080p.mov
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Cache-TTL: 3345
Content-Length: 198212327
Content-Type: video/quicktime
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:32:12 GMT
ETag: W/”bd07ae7-47ae36e356300″
X-Cached-Time: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:36:27 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=2100
Expires: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:33:14 GMT
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:58:14 GMT
Connection: keep-alive