Error 47: Invalid URL. ()

I really tried everything i found in the last 5 or 6 hours, including the reinstall **** with only one language and so on...

I know now, that this error doesn´t appear if i´m

1. reinstalling quicktime with eng (1033) only, or

2. change the programm to play .mov files from another programm to quicktime.

it really works, but i have to restart my pc after and before every file i watch.

(sorry for the bad eng)

I too have been getting the same problem. I have uninstalled and installed a fresh new copy twice. I've also deleted a couple other files it leaves behind after uninstalling and still doesn't work. I hope somebody from Apple can come to the rescue.

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium with an Intel Core i7

Same issue here. Quicktime and iTunes have to be two of the most horrible, badly coded pieces of rubbish I've ever had on my PC.

Before this problem just started to show itself (obviously for a lot of people, HELLO APPLE!!!), it was already horrendous in use, in that you'd select a HD trailer and nothing would seem to happen, Quicktime wouldn't open, nothing... so you'd wait, then eventually click on it again only to have quicktime pop up then, or have two windows appear.

It's an absolutely rubbish piece of software and hardly a way to show windows users 'the light' of how 'wonderful' apple software is.

Same problem on multiple PCs. I would test it on a mac, but I just ebayed my last one off. All windows now. Anyways, for anyone who is wondering, don't bother reinstalling windows. That didn't work. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and the most current version of every browser and quicktime as of today (7/14/11). I have also tried setting quicktime as the default player, having it auto-run movies, etc. No luck here.

Same problem here on my desktop and laptop, both running Windows 7 x64 with the latest version of QT and iTunes.

It's been like this for weeks now, I can't imagine the Hollywood studios being too happy that 90% of people visiting the site can't watch trailers.

Quicktime for Windows, the buggiest software ever created.

WOW, Apple really not even going to bother replying to this thread? Guess a fix is too much to ask...

Its not just this thread.Numerous threads are being ignored,and support doesn't even bother replying.

Bad apple.

Not a pun,just a truth.

Just wanted to voice my frustration as well that I've been having this inexplicable problem for weeks (just appeared out of nowhere) without a solution and started following this thread. It seems that after reinstallation of quicktime didn't help. I have the updated iTunes 10.3.1, and also reinstalled the latest quicktime player over it and still get the same invalid URL.

The only links that work on trailers.apple.com are the "automatic" and "Large- 480" links, but NOT the HD links. Otherwise you can go to Yahoo! Trailers and watch HD trailers there. The crazy thing is that that when you download HD trailers, you are actually downloading a quicktime LINK, and when you open that link, the quicktime client downloads and plays the trailer appropriately!!! Why can the Yahoo! Trailers get the link working and the apple site be broken makes me think that there is a problem with trailers.apple.com website and how they upload links to clients. Almost makes me think there is an subconscious effort by apple to 'break' Windows 7 PC's compatability with apple products (e.g. the already ridiculous slow iTunes and now their trailers website). 😟😠

Let's cross our fingers someone with sanity and who cares at apple will fix it or at least read this thread.

On Windows 7 x64 and have Quicktime Pro

Found this workaround here. Open a new tab to play the movie in the browser at the HD resolutions.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1660116

If you go to the Apple Movie Trailer site in Safari and follow the procedure above, you will be able to right-mouse click after the movie has completely loaded and will be able to save the Quicktime movie as before.

Doesn't work for Chrome 12 for Firefox 5.

Yeah that does work but since you are using the browser plugin, you can't fullscreen it. It used to just open up in quicktime. Those were the good ol' days.

It seems clear from this conversations and others that there has been a recent change that has caused this error to appear almost everywhere. Of all the systems that I have running Windows 7, there is not a single one that does not report this error in every browser that I have tried.

There may be other, older, reasons for this error, but the recent cause appears to be new and pervasive.

No one has confirmed whether it occurs on a Mac yet, so it may be a Windows only issue, caused by anything from a recent update to bad QA at Apple.

It would be great to get some response from Apple as to whether they are even aware of the issue. Anyone have an idea as to how we could prod them to make such a comment, assuming they aren't reading every thread?

Ann.

It is not "a Windows only issue". It may only be affecting windows machines, but it is a "quicktime issue".

If the fault had been with with windows, Microsoft would have released a fix by now. At the very least, they would have recognised the problem and released information about it. If it had been a "windows only issue", apple would have fallen over themselves to lay the blame at their door. As it is, they have their heads in the sand.

This is disgraceful Apple. There is a reason I run Win7. My computuer is a year old, has better hardware to the new MacPro, and was half the price.

I paid for QuicktimePro, but I regret that. I have had the URL error for the past few weeks. No support. Useless.

Yeah Apple needs to dump quicktime, almost everyone else has gone to a better trailers system, yet they stubbornly hold on to this old way of things. And this problem won't go away because I'm willing to be it's not that they're ignoring it, it's that they aren't smart enough to fix it.

Today´s update for iTunes&QuickTime (10.4.0.80) doesn´t solve the problem 😟.

Also I installed the 64-bit version for Windows 7 64-bit, but when I run iTunes and QuickTime, they are listed as *32 programms in the taskmanager.