Where is a good place to download movie trailers?

by **Mac** on Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:39 pm

Where is a good place to download movie trailers in formats that can be played with ZoomPlayer?

by **AirPost** on Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:05 pm

To ensure the smoothest QuickTime playback, make sure you have the latest version of both Zoom Player and QuickTime installed. -- Inmatrix

by **stevenhanna6** on Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:42 am

Yah make sure you have the latest quicktime...mine wouldnt playback without doing that.

I was thinking of writing an autodownloader for apple.com, nice to see other people use that site

by **wintz** on Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:22 pm

Stupid question time but how do you save a quicktime movie trailer?

stevenhanna6 wrote:I was thinking of writing an autodownloader for apple.com, nice to see other people use that site

that would be a great feature

by **sp00head** on Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:27 pm

yeah, an autodownloader would be ace

by **AirPost** on Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:26 pm

Wintz, no such thing as stupid questions around here.

The crude way to save quicktime trailers is to:
1) open/load a movie trailer from the website above or from here: http://www.themovieinsider.com/multimedia/
2) while the movie is downloading or at anytime, right-click the quicktime window and select Plugin Settings.
3) Under Browser Plug in, tick on "Save movies in disk cache"
4) After the trailer has been downloaded/viewed, you can go to your browser's internet cache directory and look for the file that has around the same file size as the movie trailer that you just watched. In my case, I use Mozilla as my net browser and it stores the file as a generic cache file without any extension. I had to add a .mov extension to the files. For IE, you can change the default temporary folder since there might be thousands of files in the default folder by now or just clear the cache before you do your downloading.

The smoothest way is to have someone (Steven?), do a plugin to download movie trailers. :wink:

by **wintz** on Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:15 pm

Thanks AirPost, now to hunt them down on my pc lol, oh i found one i could download of the net put it into my trailers folder but it will not import it :roll:

any ideas

by **AirPost** on Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:50 am

Wintz, make sure you have the .mov extension in the File Types area.

You did change the extension to .mov for the cached file, right?

by **wintz** on Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:14 am

Thanks AirPost, yeah i did put the .mov in to the file types i didn`t changed the extension on the cached .mov files as i couldn`t find them but i did download one from the net and that is the one i can`t play or import my bro had ago on his machine aswell and couldn`t get it to work either? cheers