Let’s say you want to watch a movie trailer in QuickTime™, like for the upcoming Ong Bak as a coworker of mine wanted to, but you’re on an old dark monitor whose tube is utterly shot so you need to maximize it (as said coworker was, and did). Good luck if you’re inside a browser like you should be.
Here’s how to get around that if you’re running Windows. You have to download the file in order to play it, right? And you can stretch the images in the normal QuickTime player, right? So it follows that you can put the URL of the file directly into the QT player (File -> Play Location…). How do you find it? Right-click on any part of the page that is text (i.e., not the QT movie), and click “View Source” (or, if you’re on a site that doesn’t allow right-clicking, either disable JavaScript temporarily or use the hotkey that allows you to View Source—Ctrl+U in Firefox). Do a search in this page for “.mov” (without the quotes). Unless two or more QuickTime movies are embedded in the page, the full line ending with this combination of four letters is the link directly to the movie. Select everything from “http://” to “.mov” and copy (Ctrl+C) the text you just highlighted. Put this into the QuickTime viewer’s “Play Location” dialog box, and when it starts loading, hit Ctrl+Enter to view it full-screen.
HTH!
