Cannot play apple trailers on OpenSuse 11.1 (worked a few wks back; not anymore)

[wond]

I am running OpenSuse 11.1 with Firefox 3.5.2 (that's the latest). I am having a problem with playing apple trailers. Yes , i know they don't play that easily on linux systems ; but after a lot of research i had managed to play it some 3wks ago. This is what i had done:
> upgrade all my gstreamers to 0.10.12 or above wherever possible
> tried getting all gstreamers from packman repo versus openSuse community repos
> installed libquicktime0 & libquicktime - both
> installed smplayer
> my system already had totem (with plugins), vlc (with plugins), mplayer (with plugins installed)

More recently however, i got some upgrades to media packages like gstreamer & libquicktime and the trailers stopped playing. I do not have any problems with playing .mov or .mp4 natively with totem, vlc or mplayer. Streaming is an issue.

I have tried the openSuse forums ; but no success.

Anyone with a solution ??

[hellnoire]

My first thought is to install Quicktime under Wine. I don't know how well that would work, or if it would work at all. But it's worth a go.

Also, Apple is getting more restrictive in how they let people view their trailers. Stupid, yes, but it's not a surprise. Try running this patch and see if it works. It was reported on Digg.com as a possible solution. It's just another pain in the ass for being a user of a hated OS by APPLE.

[wond]

Infact i have this problem with all streaming quicktime videos. This patch is for apple trailers alone and is not a generic solution - it's a hack for apple's user agent block.

[hellnoire]

Have you tried installing Quicktime under Wine yet?

Try using the MPlayerplug-in or the mozilla-vlc-plugin. Those will both play Quicktime videos.

And if these fail, then we've got Apple who's changed their formats again just to f**k with us. I'd be out of ideas at this point.

[wond]

Yeah - i have the plugins for mplayer & vlc. Nothing works.

[hellnoire]

Looks like it's Apple blaming time.

[wond]

The Opensuse forum has got the solution for this now until gecko mediaplayer gets this version into their svn. Link to the thread with rpm is http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/multimedia/419732-unable-play-apple-site-trailers-7.html#post2038850.

I got this rpm and trailers work great now !

[hellnoire]

Good to hear, this is the power of OSS... if we know how to code, we can code it.