Re: priblem with apple trailers

[Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral igalia com>]

Hi Roland,

El vie, 15-07-2011 a las 12:05 +0200, Roland Peffer escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I just play around with GRILO and gstreamer for playback.
> 
> 
> Just I have a proble with the apple trailes.
> I get a media URL like this:
> 
> 
> http://trailers.apple.com/movies/lionsgate/abduction/abduction-tlr1_h480p.mov
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sending this to gstreamer I get an error like this
> ...
> Error: A text/html decoder plugin is required to play this stream, but
> not installed.
> ....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Also I tried to Open the URL with VLC player. But it can not play it
> as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So what is the trick to get to actual movie file into playback? The
> given URL seems to be useless
> 
> 

in order to be able to play those trailers from Apple your media client
must set the user-agent http header to the value 'QuickTime'. You can
instruct GStreamer to do this by setting the user-agent property of the
souphttpsrc element.

Iago