Saving a non-savable QuickTime movie

Aug 13, '02 10:05:03AM

Contributed by: nockely

Apple seem to have introduced a feature recently which does not allow some movies to be saved off their trailers website. All they have done is set the movie into 'Kiosk mode', which bypasses the QT preference settings (which invariably have this disabled) and does not allow the movie to be saved.

One way of bypassing this problem is to do the following:

  1. On the page on which the movie is on, open the HTML source, select all and copy it. The ideal application to paste into is either an HTML editor or SimpleText, which is available for OS X in the Developer's Tools CD.

  2. Scroll through the source code until you find the text KIOSKMODE="TRUE". If you look at the source, it will have a few lines beginning with <PARAM, followed by a line beginning with <embed. Look on this line. Change TRUE to FALSE, keeping the quotation marks around it.

  3. Save the file as plain text or html, and add a .html extension. Open this file in your browser, and the movie page should load again, but this time you will be able to save the movie as normal.
I haven't come across any 'unsaveable' movies on any other sites, but I should imagine this method would work in most cases.

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