Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 02:30 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > On 12.09.2009 at 23:49 Ron Blizzard wrote : > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith > > wrote: > > > >> Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to > >> PREVENT people > >> from using otherwise-compatible play

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
On 12.09.2009 at 23:49 Ron Blizzard wrote : > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith > wrote: > >> Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to >> PREVENT people >> from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just >> doesn't make sense in any way other

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-12 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:49:32PM -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith > wrote: > > > Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people > > from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just > > doesn't make sense i

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-12 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith wrote: > Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people > from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just > doesn't make sense in any way other than sheer meanness. I mean, what real > business justific

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread Olaf Mueller
fred smith wrote: > So, they're not gaining anything other than ill will by > blocking us from viewing. Yes. An other example for such a behaviour is Amazon.com. Amazon.com has changed their data API to require that all searches be signed with a secret key, unique to each user. As a result my tell

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:43:21PM -0700, nate wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people > > from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just > > doesn't make sense in any way other than sheer meanness. I mean,

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread nate
fred smith wrote: > Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people > from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just > doesn't make sense in any way other than sheer meanness. I mean, what real > business justification could there be? They don't

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:26:45PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > While I haven't tried that, > ? > > > I don't think that's the problem I'm > > having: I can copy and paste the URL of the .mov file into mplayer or > > vlc from the commandline, and get the exact same sympto

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread Robert
Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > >> While I haven't tried that, >> > ? > > >> I don't think that's the problem I'm >> having: I can copy and paste the URL of the .mov file into mplayer or >> vlc from the commandline, and get the exact same symptoms. I.E., there >> is no bro

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread Olaf Mueller
fred smith wrote: > While I haven't tried that, ? > I don't think that's the problem I'm > having: I can copy and paste the URL of the .mov file into mplayer or > vlc from the commandline, and get the exact same symptoms. I.E., there > is no browser involved in that transaction but it fails the

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-10 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:26:16AM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > Hello. > > > I've been able to view the movie trailers at apple.com/trailers for > > years on my old Centos box (5.3). [...] > > Is anyone else having trouble with that? or to ask another way, can > > any of you

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-09 Thread Olaf Mueller
fred smith wrote: Hello. > I've been able to view the movie trailers at apple.com/trailers for > years on my old Centos box (5.3). [...] > Is anyone else having trouble with that? or to ask another way, can > any of you still watch them? Works here with 'User Agent Switcher' for Firefox. See for

[CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-09 Thread fred smith
I've been able to view the movie trailers at apple.com/trailers for years on my old Centos box (5.3). so in July I built a new box and also used Centos 5.3. I recall being able to view them on the new box too, back in July. now, none of them work on either the old or new box. Firefox by default u