Re: mplayerplug-in and trailers at Apple.com

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On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 18:18 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 19:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:41 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > > 2008/5/23 Andre Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've been happily using mplayerplug-in to watch movie trailers on
> > > > http://www.apple.com/trailers for quite some time, but lately I've
> > > > been denied access to some movies with a "get latest quicktime"
> > > > message (other movies still play as they used to).
> > > 
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > I've not followed this thread that closely, but I thought I'd let you
> > > know that I can view all the media on apple's site with
> > > totem-mozplugin and the xine backend for totem.
> > > 
> > > Do:
> > > ------------
> > > yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad streamer-plugins-bad-extra
> > > gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine totem-mozplugin
> > > 
> > > totem-backend -b xine
> > > 
> > > yum remove mplayerplug-in (gecko-mediaplayer)
> > > -----------------
> > > and you should find that things work :)
> > 
> > It didn't. I installed and removed as suggested, restarted Firefox,
> > visited a trailer page and clicked on the URL, and absolutely nothing
> > happened.
> > 
> > BTW there's no streamer-plugins-bad-extra. It's
> > gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras.
> ----
> I still can't get the trailers to play from Apple's web site but no
> problem playing the trailers from the studios web sites or videos from
> CNN (which have never worked as smoothly as they are now).
> 
> I have to believe that Apple is really clamping down hard on the DRM to
> prevent non-quicktime players from working.

There's no indication that this is a DRM problem. If it were, I would
expect the plugin to start up and then not work, but to repeat myself,
literally *nothing* happens, not even the "transferring data" message in
the lower border.

poc

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