Apple.com blocking Gstreamer

I think there is the related (upstream?) report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592665

seems so yes, marking this as triaged.

I think, this is fixed now: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375867

> Override the HTTP user-agents for Quicktime and Windows Media Player,
> fixes playback of the Apple trailers.

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.27.92-0ubuntu1

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totem (2.27.92-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Movie Player:
    - Remember the current file position when Pause is clicked (lp: #98780)
    - Show menu item description in status bar
    - Make Home and End keys seek to the start and the end of streams
    - Use Totem's icon as the main window logo (lp: #139401)
    - Make screenshot dialogue more like GNOME's
    Bug fixes:
    - Fix crash when a storage volume is encrypted
    - Make shuffle playlists faster with a large number of items
    - Fix the artist not showing up in the window title (lp: #421721)
    - Detect non-xine DVB channel configurations
    - Select the directory in which the movie is by default,
      when looking for a subtitle (lp: #414325)
    Web browser plugin:
    - Use the user-agents for the plugins we're mimicking (lp: #418064)
    - Show controls for the Cone plugin when VLC compatibility
      isn't explicitely asked
    Thumbnailer:
    - Make it possible to output thumbnails without the film borders
    Plugins:
    - Add plugin authoring tutorial
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated gstreamer requirement
  * debian/patches/03_disable_debug.patch:
    - dropped since the issue is fixed in the new version
  * debian/patches/66_show-cover-image.patch:
    - dropped since the change is in the new version
  * refresh the other patches for the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:35:09 +0200

This issue happens on other releases of Ubuntu (obviously- since Apple changed their website behavior) - will this fix be backported to older releases as well?
Just for the record- I'm using Jaunty and this issue happens on my system.

This error exist in my lucid, with totem (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) lucid version? - I need a confirm.

Movie files don't played from movies.apple.com to me.

Installed in lucid :

totem (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) A simple media player for the GNOME desktop based on GStreamer
totem-common (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) Data files for the Totem media player
totem-dbg (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) Debugging symbols for the Totem media player
totem-gstreamer (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) [universe] A simple media player for the GNOME desktop (transitional package)
totem-gstreamer virtual package provided by totem
totem-mozilla (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) Totem Mozilla plugin
totem-plugins (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) Plugins for the Totem media player
totem-plugins-extra (2.29.2-0ubuntu1) [universe] Extra plugins for the Totem media player

vanekmax : please tell if you see the "install quicktime page" instead of your movie when launching a movie from trailers page. If yes it can come from their plugin version checking js which should although work with current gstreamer plugin name:

______________________________________________
var plugin = navigator.plugins[i];

                //Match: QuickTime Plugin X.Y.Z
                var match = plugin.name.match(/quicktime\D*([\.\d]*)/i);
                if (match && match[1]) {
                    version = match[1];
                }
______________________________________________

tell also if you still can play a movie ( getting a tes/html content ) when playing directly the file (not the binary playlist) with Totem , ie : http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/macgruber/macgruber-tlr1_h480p.mov

It should work as good as

wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/macgruber/macgruber-tlr1_h480p.mov

The totem player opens when I click on HD but immediately the plugin searcher application pops up. I cancel it, I click on the title of movie in the opened file history and then the movie starts well. The codec installed but this plugin pops up unnecessary.

According to this bug report (linked in the original upstream), a fix should be available upstream. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375867

I can download the trailer in Lucid Lynx with "wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 http://trailers.apple.com/movies/independent/thesquare/thesquare-tlr1_h1080p.mov"

But totem does not work, text/html codec issue.

Apple seems to have re-written their Javascript check for QuickTime again (April 2010, Lucid beta). Trying to watch a trailer on http://apple.com/trailers gets me nothing but an "Install Quicktime" ad.

The problem is that while GStreamer can play Quicktime just fine, Apple's web site is using Javascript to try to verify that the 'official' version of Quicktime is install. GStreamer doesn't quite match their test.

This was fixed for a while. Should be simple to fix again.

WON'T FIX ?