[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Movie trailers

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Thu May 27 21:16:28 UTC 2004


Mark Morgan wrote:

>Evan Heidtmann said:
>  
>
>>On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 18:55, Mel Andres wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Today I received this link in an email:
>>>http://www.thedayaftertomorrow.com/trailer2/
>>>I was hoping the problem was related to Yahoo, but evidently not.
>>>      
>>>
>>If you're like me and your connection speed is too slow for the quality
>>you want, you might want to just download the movie. This is difficult
>>for windows and realplayer urls (they use their own streaming protocol -
>>use mencoder), but the quicktime video on that site is an http download.
>>Just look at the source.
>>
>>If your connection is fast enough, then the mplayerplug-in is probably
>>the best bet.
>>    
>>
>I generally do the same.  Look at the html source to find out where
>they've actually got the film, then make a quick wget to fetch it. 
>Sometimes this means jumping through a couple hoops.
>Then play it using mplayer.  I used to have it work via my browser, but
>every so often I run into a problem with it.
>
Works for me (and I've done it as well).  But how do I, realistically, 
explain this
to my neices/nephews?  ... brother-in-law?  ... or to my Mom?  Wasn't 
the original
problem having to show a movie trailer to someone who wanted to "use" the
computer?

- Don






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