Most of the movie trailers available on Quicktime website can only be watched by the Quicktime program, available to Mac and Windows OS.

However, it's possible to download and convert those files on Linux and watch them through Mplayer, even being them HD files.
Do it this way:

1) Access Quicktime website and click upon the trailer you'd like to watch. At this very
moment you'll be presented to the option to choose a High Definition resolution.
In this example we click upon the option 720p.




NOTE: you need configure mplayer plugin for 100 % of cache. See here

2) The file will be loaded, just hold on. When the progress bar reached its end
click to close the mplayer-plugin window.

3) Again click upon the 720p link with the right button and choose Save As.
Save the .mov file.

4) * You won't be able to watch the movie in the downloaded format. You'll need to
converter it first. For accomplish this you start by installing an AAC decoder available
in the Debian Unstable repositories. Open the sources.list file (/etc/apt/sources.list)
and uncomment any line pointing to one of the unstable repositories. If there's none,
you can manually add one, for instance:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free.
After saving the /etc/apt/sources.list file do an apt-get update to update the packages.

5) * Now install the FAAD decoder this way: sudo apt-get install faad . Accept the dependencies.

* this step is not necessary on the Dreamlinux MM GL RC1.

6) Open the Avidemux program. Click on Open file and look for the mov file downloaded.
Accept the questioning presented by the dialog box.

7) On the Avidemux Video area choose Xvid and then Configure. Choose
Single Pass and then input 1500 as the bitrate value. You can also choose x264 or other codec.

8) On the Audio area, choose Wav PCM or Lame and then filters. Accept the default values, but
on Mixer choose Stereo.

9) Save the file to <any-name.avi>. Hold on for the conversion.

10) Ready!. Your trailer movie was converted. Click upon the avi file and Mplayer will open, reproducing the video.

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