Firefox Quicktime HD (qtl) Links

// April 10th, 2007 // Web

Recently, I started having problems viewing certain HD QuickTime links. Before, I could click on the link to the HD trailer (480, 720, or 1080) and the QuickTime window would open and the trailer would start to load. Somewhere along the line, that changed. I’m not sure if developers are linking the content differently or if Firefox or QuickTime changed their loading structure, but .qtl links were not working in Firefox (or IE for that matter).

When clicked, the link would present the SAVE or OPEN dialog. Selecting open would open a small QuickTime window, with no content. Saving the file and then opening it produced the same results. After watching one or two non-HD trailers, I had to find a solution and here it is.

If you are presented with a SAVE/OPEN dialog box when clicking a .qtl QuickTime HD link, simply save the .qtl and change the extension to .TXT. Open the resulting text file and you should see the direct link to the HD trailer. Open up QuickTime. Select File -> Open URL (CTRL + U) and paste in the URL and you’re ready to go. Welcome back HD QuickTime goodness.

For instance, the following link:
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/hdtrailers/columbia/spiderman3final/720/?
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mo/spiderman3final_720.qtl

Links to this, when saved:
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?sid=35419655&sdm=web&pt=rd

17 Responses to “Firefox Quicktime HD (qtl) Links”

  1. Frank says:
    April 20, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Thanks! That really helped out. It was hard to go back to low-def and after watching HD trailers!

  2. Harshhira says:
    April 21, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    i have founf that this method doesnt work directly with me however if you take the link and use it in firefox the file plays in there
    also this links to a new url which can be used in quicktime

  3. allaboutduncan says:
    April 24, 2007 at 8:39 am

    Frank – I know how you felt. I looked and then looked some more and finally found this solution on a forum somewhere and thought I’d post it and share with others. Glad it worked for you.

  4. Lee says:
    April 27, 2007 at 7:21 am

    Thank you so much for posting this – I really appreciate it as I was starting to go a little mad

  5. Opyz says:
    May 17, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    Please help now i can’t do that i don’t now why there is some thing new like this:” ftypqt  qt žmoov lmvhd Âs¡TÂs¡T X     @  *udta play aqui WLOCd d wide mdat ” and i don’t what i have to do

  6. allaboutduncan says:
    May 18, 2007 at 11:42 am

    What trailer / site is giving you that message? Mac or PC? Windows, Firefox, etc?

  7. Opyz says:
    May 18, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    The Exlcusive Trasformers Trailer in Yahoo. I am usin PC IE7

  8. Opyz says:
    May 18, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    And that message appear after i save it and open in notepad, then when i open that message appear and there i don’t found any url like in the others. thanks for the interest in my case

  9. Tabasco says:
    May 19, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    Work for me on a PC using Firefox 2.0. you should try with another browser

  10. Opyz says:
    May 23, 2007 at 10:37 pm

    I am gona try and i tell you soon thanks

  11. TSL says:
    May 27, 2007 at 12:11 am

    Oh My God… Its work. Thank you for posting it.^^

  12. stant says:
    June 20, 2007 at 6:16 am

    Thank you very much for this tip. I have similar problem (only on Yahoo! movies, not on Apple trailers etc.), and I hope this will do the trick.

    Answers to this problem on Yahoo!’s site were useless. So thanks again!

  13. allaboutduncan says:
    June 20, 2007 at 6:24 am

    Glad it helped stant – Yahoo! is the site I had problems with as well.

  14. AleX says:
    May 23, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    Really,really THANK YOU!!!

    You solved my problem!
    :) Thumbs up!

  15. Frankey says:
    June 30, 2008 at 8:29 am

    Hey,

    Thanks for the great advice! I’ve been in need of a solution for this for a long time.

    Alternatively, you can open the .qtl file that you’ve downloaded in notepad and that will save you an extra step.

    But thanks immensely for this!

    Frankey.

  16. Evan says:
    July 29, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks a lot! that really makes me happy!

  17. Mike says:
    March 1, 2009 at 7:14 am

    thanks alot for that

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