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Do Quicktime Trailers Exist and What does the response look like?
posted by psubsee2002STAFFMOD on February 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM
From the API documentation (and the queries that I have run), I can see that the Movie Trailer method (/3/movie/{id}/trailers) includes a quicktime object array and a youtube object array.
200 (OK)
ETag: "72e857d0850e3270b502f725bdbf30dd"
Content-Type: application/json
{
"id": 550,
"quicktime": [],
"youtube": [
{
"name": "Trailer 1",
"size": "HD",
"source": "SUXWAEX2jlg",
"type": "Trailer"
}
]
}
But for this example, there are no contents for the quicktime array,nor have then been for a few examples I've tried. I do now see on the main site that users don't have the ability to add quicktime trailers yet. So when this feature is released, can you give me an idea what this object will look like? Is it identical to the youtube objects? Or are there planned variations? Or don't you know yet.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 8, 2014 at 1:53 PM
Truthfully, no they don't really exist. I've been meaning to remove the mention of them at all on the website. They haven't been available to edit for almost a year.
YouTube is likely the only external video reference we'll support.
Reply by psubsee2002
on February 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM
Oh ok. Thanks.
I thought it might be an upcoming feature based on the text on the website "The ability to add and edit QuickTime trailers will be arriving shortly." when you try to edit trailers.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 8, 2014 at 4:02 PM
Ya, we used to support them back from 2009-2012 or so but we never had much adoption (everyone typically only added YouTube) and when I re-designed the edit interface it never made its way back.