[CentOS] Apple movie trailers on Centos6/Firefox

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 04:34:57PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> Hi all!

I've not seen any replies since I posted this original posting in June.

Apparently I'm the only Centos user who is unable to view the quicktime
trailers,... or maybe nobody but me is interested.

I've found a posting on the centos forums:

https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=24119&forum=38&post_id=109180#forumpost109180

that proposed a technique close to what I used for the previous 2 or 3
years, but it doesn't work either.

Curiously, on my two Fedora laptops, Apple's trailers work just fine
with Firefox and "movie player", along with a bunch of various firefox
add-ons and a scattershot approach to finding the right packages to
install, but I can't make it work on Centos at all, anymore. (And it
did work on this very computer up until somewhere in late May.)

I'd appreciate it if anyone else has figured it out, if they'd let
us all know how to do it.

thanks!

Fred

> 
> Once again, Apple has messed with their trailers/website such that I can
> no longer play their trailers on Centos 6 (note that it still works
> fine on my two Fedora machines, F17 and F19, without any special
> settings.
> 
> on Centos, I've long ago found that by setting the user agent to certain
> values I could make it work, but now that no longer helps. when I try
> to view a trailer all I get is a "download Quicktime" page.
> 
> When I was running C5, I used mplayer plugin to do the video and it
> worked fine. after installing C6, I discovered that Totem also worked
> without the need to mess with mplayer installation. then all of a
> sudden, a couple weeks ago, it stopped working.
> 
> at the same time, the choices they offered changed, so now they only offer
> "automatic", "480p" or "720p".
> 
> this link is to one I can still play: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/elemental/
> 
> and this is a newer one I cannot: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/monstersuniversity/
> 
> I am (and have been) using the User Agent Switcher plugin for firefox
> (for several years) to make this all work, and until recently it has.
> Using that plugin, I find either of these settings has worked:
> 
> useragent description="Quicktime 7.6.2" 
> useragent="QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1 Service Pack 3)"
> appcodename="Mozilla" 
> appname="Netscape" appversion="5.0 (X11)" 
> platform="Linux x86_64" 
> vendor="" 
> vendorsub=""
> 
> or:
> 
> useragent description="Google chrome" 
> useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML,like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19" 
> appcodename="Mozilla" 
> appname="Netscape" appversion="5.0 (X11)" 
> platform="Linux x86_64" 
> vendor="" 
> vendorsub=""
> 
> I'd appreciate hints on how to once again do a end-run around Apple's
> attempts to fence me out.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
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