Google Launches Pay-Per-View Web Video 217
Elliot Shepherd writes "According to John Batelle, on Monday Google is launching in-browser video playback based on VLC. Google has been accepting video uploads in April, including allowing the video owner to specify that payment is required, through the Google Payment Program." Update: 06/27 22:21 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "Google Video is now up. The about page describes what kinds of content has been uploaded to their servers so far -- mostly a random assortment of stuff from Gamespot's archives, a few things from Greenpeace, a Google recruiting video, some breakdancing videos, and other randomness. The in-browser video plugin works seamlessly (although Windows only for now). Looks like it has potential." Check the top entry on Google Blog for a few more words on it, too.
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
And version 8.2.2 of VLC was released yesterday (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Microsoft and Realmedia's proprietary formats? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So precensorship? (Score:2, Informative)
I meant will Google check through all the files to make sure things like hollywood films, tv shows, etc...
Re:Codec compatibility (Score:4, Informative)
The legal way to get those codecs is to download and install each official player+codec combo, and then use your choice of player to use the codec; even then their EULA may say you can't use the codec separate from THEIR player.
Howerver the best way to get the codecs -- but not technically legal way, because of software patent BS -- is to google for and download what's called a "codec pack". The best one for Windoze is called the "K-Lite Mega Codec Pack" [free-codecs.com], which comes with Media Player Classic, BSPlayer, as well as almost every video/audio codec under the sun. For Linux, the best (and only?) codec pack available is the MPlayer essential codec pack [mplayerhq.hu], which is actually just an archive of windows .dll codecs, which MPlayer, VLC, and other players will fall back on if there is no open source alternative codec to use.
GreaseMonkey (Score:1, Informative)
Try it!
Re:google = content brokers (Score:3, Informative)
Google is nowhere near being THE content broker. For instance, Factiva has more than 9,000 newspaper, major trade publications and market research providers. I can think of many other aggregators such as Lexis-Nexis, Thompson that have been operating in the space for decades - and Google can't touch them for usefulness.
This is not to say Google may not be developing a whole new content set - which will make them a more useful content provider. However, if you are in a position to have to answer any question that pops into someone's head - which I am, Google is rarely a first choice. It is only your first choice if you know absolutely nothing about the topic. It is also part of any final search to make sure you haven't missed anything that your average Joe might come across - especially any misinformation.
Re:So precensorship? (Score:2, Informative)
https://upload.video.google.com/video_faq.html#ov
Re:Codec compatibility (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Few details (Score:3, Informative)
That really seems fair enough. Seems like they'll charge the user, not the uploader, if the video is big and becomes popular.
Re:Content control? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
0) Get Firefox
1) Install Greasemonkey [mozdev.org]
2) get this extension [uni-magdeburg.de]
--> Every
Re:Codec compatibility (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Codec compatibility (Score:2, Informative)
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php [sourceforge.net]
On the homepage it says it is adding support, and or experimental support, and or full support has been added for:
Quicktime 7
x264.h
Alac
"(Jan 24, 2005) Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed the recent CVS addition of a VC-9 decoding implementation. It is still highly experimental but should eventually serve as a basis for decoding Microsoft VC-1/VC-9/WMV3/WMV9 video data." - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php [sourceforge.net]
For all the supported codecs either download, and build ffmpeg and run it with -formats or take a look at http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC