Tuesday, July 22, 2008


Playing Quicktime High Def Trailers on the PS3


Putting this here for Google’s sake — the information is out there, but scattered…

You can play the High Definition videos from Apple’s Quicktime Trailer site on your PS3 (maybe the Xbox 360 as well — I don’t have one to test.) This is nice, as Apple’s trailer site has about 10x as many trailers available compared to the PSN store. The HD videos are internally MPEG4 conformant h.264 video and AAC audio. I believe Quicktime Pro is also required. In theory this should work in either OS X or Windows, but I only have OS X to try.

  1. Click one of the links (depending on your TV’s resolution, of course) and the trailer will load in QuickTime Player. Depending on download size, it will take anywhere from a couple of seconds to an eternity for the movie to finish downloading. I recommend allowing the trailer to download fully before trying to export it.

    hd_trailer_selection
  2. Make sure you set the viewing window to “Actual Size” — as far as I can tell, QuickTime wants to export the movie at the same resolution as the current window.

    3. quicktime_view_menu

  3. Choose the “Export” option in QuickTime Player’s file menu.

    4. qt_export_1

  4. In the resulting dialog, choose to export the movie with both audio and video set to “passthrough.”

    5. Save exported file as2026

    MPEG-4 Export Settings (video)

    MPEG-4 Export Settings

  5. Move the resultant MP4 file to your console via network, using something like MediaLink or MediaTomb, or via a thumb drive.

:: Dave Walker 08:35 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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Comments:

ssp wrote:

Title:

Date: 7/22/2008 11:51:24

Response:
Just wondering: What's the difference between doing this and using the Save command?
d.w. wrote:

Title:

Date: 7/22/2008 16:28:52

Response:
Doing a normal "Save" or "Save as..." produces a QuickTime movie, and the container format, while _close_ to that of generic MPEG-4, is just different enough to befuddle the PS3. Performing an export instead makes QuickTime write out the generic container.
ssp wrote:

Title:

Date: 7/23/2008 09:19:09

Response:
Ah, I see. I had thought QuickTime's format became mp4 at some stage. I guess that would have been too easy.
Gábor Farkas wrote:

Title: MP4Box should work too

Date: 7/29/2008 06:59:58

Response:
if you don't have quicktime-pro, it should also work with MP4Box from the gpac project (i cannot test it currently). simply download the *.mov file, and then do: "MP4Box x.mov x.mp4".



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