Description of problem: Starting around 2 months ago Apple changed the way Quicktime movies are streamed by their www.apple.com/trailers site, causing Linux media players (totem-mozplugin and gecko-mediaplayer) to choke on the trailers [1]. This has been fixed by version 0.9.8 of gecko-mediaplayer [2], but totem-mozplugin still can't play the movies. [1] http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2009/08/applecom-trailers-and-gecko-mediaplayer.html [2] http://kdekorte.blogspot.com/2009/08/applecom-trailers-and-gecko-mediaplayer.html?showComment=1253288527721#c3075357907507657318 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.26.3-5.fc11 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open www.apple.com/trailers on Firefox 2. click on any movie and then try to play it by clicking on either "Small", "Medium" or "Large" 3. Actual results: totem complains saying it doesn't know how to play a text/html stream. Expected results: Movie would play. Additional info: Apparently a specific user-agent has to be passed ("Quicktime/xxx.0", where xxx seems to be arbitrary), otherwise an HTML page is sent back which confuses totem-mozplugin. Movies can effectively be downloaded using wget and the above user-agent ID.
Is that through the web browser plugin, or through Totem itself?
Hi Bastien, the error happens through the browser plugin (totem-mozplugin), I haven't tested through totem itself.
Right, this bug is already fixed in newer versions of Totem (in Fedora 12 and newer), and won't be fixed for Fedora 11. See the referenced upstream bug.