Movie trailer Plugin

[raptoger]

I dont know you but I love movie trailers, sometimes more than the movie itself. Having said that, would it be possible to create a plugin that could download trailers for coming movies? I wish I knew how to code for something like that. I better leave it to those here who have done all those cool plugins we use today.

[reven]

i was going to add this to my videos, but quicktime changed a few things and you can no longer download their trailers, all the files are only about 256k, and then when you open that file, the trailer is downloaded, so i gave up.

[raptoger]

I'm still able to download and play any trailer from apple. I'm using quicktime 6.5 pro. The only problem is when playing full screen

[KingArgyle]

You gave up too easy Reven. You need a little perl program called GoGetEmAll.

http://www.meedio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6168&start=0

I've been running this once a week for the last 6 months and haven't had a problem with getting Quicktime movie trailers.

I just set a scheduled task to kick off at about 2am in the morning on Sundays and it does the rest.

[raptoger]

There it is!!

[reven]

i was using this program i found over at xlobby, which just went thru the trailers website and downloaded the poster and the url for the videos. and those urls were no longer working.

[KingArgyle]

GoGetEmAll works pretty well. It does take a while to download the trailers, and it does check to see if you already have the trailer.

[reven]

ok ill look into it in a few weeks.

[pauly666]

Hey Reven

Not that you have anything better to do than serve this its-never-enough community but did you get to look into this?

KingArgyle, are you using this in conjunction with an MVP, and if so, what player are you using to watch/transcode the trailers?

This would be a very cool plug-in! Who doesn't love movie trailers?!

Thanks!

[Pioneer4x4]

I get trailers for some movies to show the family. mainly if it is something interesting that I might take them to see. What I do is;
1) Go to the regular apple site to view it.
2) View source of the web page and find and select the actual URL for the file. (simular to http://images.apple.com/movies/wb/the_is...nt_480.mov)
3) I open quicktime player and <File> <Open URL in new player> and past that string into it. Then <File><Save as> and pick make movie self contained.
4) Then I use TMPGEnc to reencode to MPEG2 at a high bitrate (7000)so no reencoding artifacts show up.


It wouild be great to automate this, and tie it in to the theater listing plugin! Just brouse a theater, then look and say "What the heck is that movie, and hit play trailer!!!!!"