[zerozero]

i'm having a fairly odd problem, and i can't seem to find any information on it elsewhere...

when i run the quicktimebrowser script, the script parses the apple xml just fine, and provides me with a list of trailers to view.

unfortunately, when i select a trailer to watch, i get the following error (example is for the movie venom):

no trailer has been found for this movie using the url:
http://www.apple.com/moviesxml/s/miramax/venom/index.xml

any ideas? the xbox is very recently modded, and the script has never run successfully on the xbox before. if it matters at all, i'm running the 10/3 compile...

thanks for any help in advance!

[ripper1975]

i have the same problem, a few days ago all trailers worked fine, now i need to update manually and i get a list of trailers. but all the trailers seem to have bad links. and 3 of 4 days back all worked just fine.

[zerozero]

is this possibly an issue with apple changing their format? is anyone else having this problem?

i'm not too knowledgable on how the script works, but i changed my user agent (firefox plugin) to itunes/4.5 to check out the url, and i didn't see any trailer link there either. hmm...

[pike]

we don't know whats going on yet.

does trailers in itunes (application) work? what version ? what user-agent does it use ?

[zerozero]

yes, trailers work in itunes...

here's what i get out of ethereal:

get /moviesxml/h/images/posters/poster_overlay_purple.png http/1.1

~~~~~~~: ~~~~:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

accept-language: en-us, en;q=0.50

x-apple-tz: -14400

cookie: s_vi_qx60x60x7cucex60ubwx7cx7frqx7c=[cs]v4|42420d18-e611d769|0[ce]

user-agent: itunes/5.0.1 (windows; u; microsoft windows xp home edition service pack 2 (build 2600)) dpi/96

x-apple-validation: 8243332b-5e852a94dee1c9573c31351b7e1722f8

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~

x-apple-store-front: 143441

host: movies.apple.com

user agent: itunes/5.0.1

[pike]

x-apple-validation: 8243332b-5e852a94dee1c9573c31351b7e1722f8

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~

x-apple-store-front: 143441

hmmm

but does 4.x clients still work ? thats what we used to "emulate"

[zerozero]

hmm... i'm going to try to dig around for an older version of itunes (i think i have an old laptop with it installed) but check this out:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=706

according to tipsters, users with dated versions of itunes are being advised to update to the latest version of the software (4.6), as previous versions will soon no longer be supported.

if you were emulating 4.7, is it possible the same thing is now happening for that version? i doubt it's that easy, but i'm going to try to bump the user agent up to 5.0.1 in the script...

[pike]

i already tried to alter user-agent, it's not that simple

[zerozero]

yeah, i figured it wouldn't be.

i assume from the following code in quicktimebrowser_utils.py that the script is looking for links to small.xml/medium.xml/large.xml files:

base_url = 'http://www.apple.com'
main_index_url = base_url + '/moviesxml/h/index.xml'
excluded_movie_urls = ('info.xml')
standard_urls = ('small.xml','medium.xml','large.xml','fullscreen.xml')

when the original url is processed (see error in original post) there are no links to those files. i imagine that this is what causes the error. however, the index.xml file for each movie does contain the following link:

<vboxview>
<view stretchiness="1"/>
-
<gotourl url="/moviesxml/s/miramax/venom/trailer/index.xml">
-
<textview leftinset="0" topinset="0" styleset="normal12" textjust="left" maxlines="1" truncation="right">
<b>
trailer
</b>
</textview>
</gotourl>
<view stretchiness="1" height="4"/>
</vboxview>

when you follow the [movie]/trailer/index.xml link, you find the links to small.xml/medium.xml/large.xml.

<gotourl url="small.xml">
<picturebuttonview width="90" topinset="0" picts="plain,rollover" url="http://movies.apple.com/moviesxml/i/generic/moviebutton_small.png" leftinset="0" height="22" transparentclicks="yes"/>
</gotourl>
<!-- switch small off -->
<!-- switch medium on -->
<view width="15"/>
-
<gotourl url="medium.xml">
<picturebuttonview width="90" topinset="0" picts="plain,rollover" url="http://movies.apple.com/moviesxml/i/generic/moviebutton_medium.png" leftinset="0" height="22" transparentclicks="yes"/>
</gotourl>
<!-- switch medium off -->
<!-- switch large on -->
<view width="15"/>
-
<gotourl url="large.xml">
<picturebuttonview width="90" topinset="0" picts="plain,rollover" url="http://movies.apple.com/moviesxml/i/generic/moviebutton_large.png" leftinset="0" height="22" transparentclicks="yes"/>
</gotourl>

meaning that the trailer links are no longer in "/moviesxml/s/[studio]/[movie]/index.xml" but are now in "/moviesxml/s/[studio]/[movie]/trailer/index.xml".

but, like i said, i have no idea how it used to work... so i could be completely off base here.

[polo247uk]

quicktime trailers links not working. when i go to view a trailer it goes to look up the url but then says error url can not be found, i tryed loads of the trailers links and same error comes up on all of them.
please let me know if we all have this problem or just me.

[Pigster]

upgraded to 2nd oct build, now having the exact same problem.
connects to quicktime fine and gives trailer listings under each option(exclusive, newest etc....), but gives url not found error when trying to stream any trailer

[urko64]

i've got the same problem but i found i was able to play the trailers of older movies but i can't remember which ones.

[pike]

please post issues regarding:

itunes quicktime trailers trailer not found in this thread from now on, tia

[Baxrus]

i have the same problem as the rest of you, but..

the bourne identity works just fine.. and thats weird.

so did moulin rouge..

[jvr]

in the two latest cvs builds i can't play any apple.com trailers. if i select anything, i get a message saying that no trailer has been found for this movie using the url : http://www.apple.com/........
the weather is working so i can access the internet from the xbox.