Stream Apple Movie Trailers (like in Freevo)

[salle78]

a friend of mine showed me a new feature in freevo (http://freevo.sourceforge.net) (a linux htpc software) that was kind of nice, you can watch trailers from apples movie trailer page (http://www.apple.com/trailers/). i think it would be neat if xbmc could do this to. the freevo plugin (with source) can be found here (http://faked.org/freevo/dist/freevo-appletrailers-plugin-0.1.tgz). the plugin is written i python, and i think it is open source?

[thebeast]

sounds interesting (i vote for it, although i don't know python so i can't port it).

and, perhaps if someone could make this python script work with minor hacks, it'd be a cheap way of shutting up a lot of users that keep posting on the forums for web browsers and apple trailer browsers, etc. etc. ;)

[deltop]

forgive me if i'm wrong but isn't this rather useless since freevo still uses mplayer as it's core to accomplish video playback.

all this script is doing is presenting a nice ui for the apple trailers homepage!

freevo is a front end to mplayer, mplayer is still used for video playback and hence we still have the same problem stated here:


http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....;t=1921 (http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=st;f=4;t=1921)

it doesn't help in any way with the actual decoding and playback of quicktime.

[Gamester17]

you are not wrong deltop, there is no point in implementeding quicktime streaming of any kind if xbmc can not decode the contense of it.