Movie Trailers Not Available?

Our iMac hard drive was recently replaced and the new drive installed/upgraded to Snow Leopard. I was able to restore the hard drive by using my Time Machine backup which worked like it should-- everything was restored like I had hoped. However, when I went to the Apple Trailers site via Safari 5.0.4 and tried to view the latest Pixar Cars 2 trailer, I can see the page but the little icons in the top left of page denoting how many trailers they are, HD versions, etc. are missing. I checked other movie trailers and the same results: the page is viewable but no ability to access the Quicktime movie trailers. Thinking it was an issue with Safari, I checked with my Firefox 4.0 browser-- same thing. I'm pretty sure I've upgraded to the latest version of Safari. Quicktime is working on my iMac as I can watch QT clips on tutorial pages and iTunes. Not sure what is causing the issue. Any suggestions?


Side note: when I open Quicktime Player 10, it just opens. It doesn't open up an Apple Quicktime window/site that lists available items from iTunes, etc. Maybe this has been abandoned recently but I can always remember it when opening Quicktime 7.x


Thanks!

iMac, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on May 13, 2011 3:26 PM

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May 14, 2011 5:32 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Way ahead on that. I did update a long time ago.


Something about wondering about is Quicktime X. Whenever the drive was replaced, the technician installed Snow Leopard. Then I did my restore from my Time Machine, which were 10.5.8 Leopard based, and I think it might have brought the incompatible settings into the mix. Can you look at your Installed Plug-Ins (Safari>Help>Installed Plug Ins and see if it indicates Quicktime X as a player? In my Installed Plug Ins, I see Quantum Media Player and Quicktime 7.6.6 (which I installed as a possible repair but it did no good) but not really seeing Quicktime Player X. But I think its part of the Snow Leopard OS.


And Apple doesn't provide too much info on Quicktime X-- at least, not on their QT website. http://www.apple.com/quicktime It appears to be embedded into Snow Leopard and the site tells me that I have it-- which makes sense as other QT movies (like in Apple tutorials and iTunes) play fine.

May 14, 2011 10:13 PM in response to Alwill

7.6.6 is the only browser plug-in. X doesn't have one in Snow Leopard but is "called" via the "QuickTime Player Launcher" app (hidden very neatly inside the 7.6.6 Package file).

When you click on a QuickTime file or come across a supported format on the Web, the Launcher app triggers X and uses its version of the controller on Web based files.

Test the Apple trailers pages using a different browser. Test Safari while logged in under a different User account.

May 15, 2011 4:42 AM in response to QuickTimeKirk

I have tried to test the Trailers with Firefox (see original post) and I have tested with different users accounts. Same results. Thanks!

QuickTimeKirk wrote:


7.6.6 is the only browser plug-in. X doesn't have one in Snow Leopard but is "called" via the "QuickTime Player Launcher" app (hidden very neatly inside the 7.6.6 Package file).

When you click on a QuickTime file or come across a supported format on the Web, the Launcher app triggers X and uses its version of the controller on Web based files.

Test the Apple trailers pages using a different browser. Test Safari while logged in under a different User account.

May 15, 2011 6:16 PM in response to Alwill

I'm getting the exact same result. Pages are there. Load fine. No actual trailers. This goes for all browsers I've tried & both my Mac Pro & my Macbook Pro.


It's not extensions, It's not plugins, or cookies, It's not even adblockers. I can't recall when the last time I attempted to visit the trailers site, but this is odd. ( actually I was on this site yesterday, but that was at the Apple store, not my home computers. ) I'm wondering if Apple is changing things on their servers.


Or my ISP is censoring Apple! #Gasp #ConspiracyTheories!!! lol.

:~)

May 16, 2011 4:15 AM in response to ScarCrow28

Gotta be a bug or other issue on the Apple Servers.

Unfortunately, it does not explain why any/most users still have no problem accessing the specifically named trailers.


That's too many computers to be a fluke system problem. Driving me nuts... So many trailers I've not seen!

Too many to be insignificant. Obviously there is a real problem that affects more than a random few users.


Time to hurry up and wait I guess.

Time to send feedback and, if Apple responds with requests for additional information, to provide any and all additional information and insights that you can. The more who participate in providing feedback and/or responses, the faster Apple will likely be able to isolate and correct the problem. (I.e., don't assume someone else will be the one to provide the feedback and supplemental information.)


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May 16, 2011 5:33 AM in response to Jon Walker

I've submitted a bug report to Apple via Safari. With screenshot & source info. For kicks, though I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at, I ran the debug Javascript option in Safari. It found two javascript errors. One mentioning that it could not find a certain variable called "overlay panel.js.66". The other mentions "scriptaculous.js:1" having a Pharse error.


The overlay panel.js.66 element sounds like it might be the link dropdown that we are missing. Just buy guessing at the name of that element.

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