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Higher Res Prequel Trailer (and Quicktime 4)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-download dept.

Shishigami writes "Apple has released the latest Star Wars trailer at a higher resolution - 640 pixels wide. They probably figured it was the best way to get people to download Quicktime 4.0. My favorite is the requirement for playback - a 300mhz G3, or a 400mhz Pentium II. " I bet my 400mhz P2 won't play the trailer.

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  1. Here's the link to download direct. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    http://www.apple.com/home/media/m enace_640qt4.mov

  2. Stereo trailer on Linux by heroine · · Score: 2

    If you Linux kids want to hear the full stereo sound of the trailer, get xmovie from

    http://heroine.tampa.fl.us/xmovie

    and a Linuxised trailer from

    ftp://heroine.tampa.fl.us/pub/starwars_flattened .mov

  3. not bad... by eshefer · · Score: 2

    a interesting thing is that the size of the new 640 file is 25 meg, the same as the privious highest quality file.

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  4. QT4 FYI by webslacker · · Score: 2

    The reason why the 640 trailer doesn't playback sound in QT3 is that it uses the new QDesign2 sound codec. If you want any idea how good the new sound codec is, the old trailer was 480 pixels wide, had 22khz sound, and was 24.8 MB. The new trailer is 640 pixels wide, has 44khz sound and is 25.2 MB (video track is much larger, sound track is higher quality and is much smaller).

    The quicktime streaming examples took forever to see (too many people trying to get on the same 3 sites) but when I finally got to see it, it was okay... about the same as RealVideo (as in, it sounds like talking through a tincan and looks like fingerpaint).

    BTW, there's no point in converting this to MPEG or AVI. The file size would either be enormous or look crappy, won't be much better than the previous trailer you've already seen, and how many times have you already seen this thing!?!

  5. PII 400? Bah by Numeric · · Score: 2

    I suspect Apple is also promoting their G3 300mhz
    system is just as fast or faster than a P2-400mhz.
    Perhaps MindCraft can publish benchmark test.

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  6. But how do you save it to disk? by mharder · · Score: 2

    Here's how I did it:

    Make an html document with a link to:

    http://www.apple.com/home/media/menace_640qt4.mo v

    Then load the page, and right-click the link and choose "Save Link As..."