Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google's web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store. Image File history File links Google_video. ... Google, Inc. ... Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images which represent scenes in motion. ... Full M1 Garand clip A clip is a device pushed into the magazine of a firearm to load the magazine in one action. ... The Google Video Store is a service provided by Google. ...

Users can search and play these uploaded videos directly from the Google Video website, as well as download video files and remotely embed them on their webpages. This page as shown in the AOL 9. ...

If a user decides to upload a video, it is saved as a .gvi file under the "Google Videos" folder in "My Videos" and reports of the video(s) details are logged and stored in the user account. The report sorts and lists the number of times that each of the users videos have been viewed and downloaded within a specific time frame. These range from the previous day, week, month or the entire time that the videos have been there for. Totals are calculated and displayed and the information can be downloaded into a spreadsheet format or printed out.

Competing services include iFilm, MetaCafe, Veoh, blip.tv and Outloud.tv. On 9 October 2006 Google agreed to buy former competitor YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, but YouTube will remain a separate service under its own identity for the near future, though YouTube search results may include Google Video clips, and vice versa ^[1]. iFilm is an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. ... Metacafe Website Metacafe Desktop Application Metacafe is a video and media sharing community on the internet. ... Blip. ... Outloud. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...

Video content

Google Video is geared towards providing a large archive of freely searchable videos. Besides amateur media, Internet videos, viral ads, and movie trailers, the service also aims to distribute commercial professional media, such as televised content and movies. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Word of mouth marketing. ...

It should be noted that a number of educational discourses by Google employees have been recorded and available for viewing via Google Video. The lectures have been done mainly at the employee's former universities. The topics cover Google technologies and software engineering but also include other pioneering efforts by major players in the software engineering field.

Various media companies offer content on Google Video for purchase, including CBS programs, NBA, music videos, and independent film. Initially, the content of a number of broadcasting companies (such as ABC, NBC, CNN) was available as free streaming content or stills with closed captioning. In addition, the U.S. National Archive uses Google Video to make historic films available online.^[2] CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... It has been suggested that NBC, NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... The National Archives building in Washington, DC The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records. ...

Video distribution methods

Google Video offers both free services and commercial videos, the latter controlled with digital rights management. Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. ...

Flash Video

The Google Video Player displays a Flash Video (.flv) file in a supported browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. The flash video file is in Adobe Flash format, and requires that the Macromedia Flash plugin is installed in the web browser (the latest version of this plugin is called Adobe Flash Player 9). The plugin is available at Macromedia's website. FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (also called Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. ... Windows Internet Explorer, previously Microsoft Internet Explorer, abbreviated IE, or MSIE,[1] is a graphical web browser developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. ... Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, cross-platform graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and hundreds of volunteers. ... Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash; originally FutureSplash Animator), or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies). ...

The browser automatically caches the flash file whilst it plays, and it can be retrieved from the browser's cache once it has fully played. In Windows o/s variants this cache is typically located at "C:WindowsTemporary Internet Files". This flash file will play in Media Player Classic (provided that ffdshow is installed), MPlayer, or in the standalone Wimpy flash player, amongst others. Look up cache in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Media Player Classic is a compact media player. ... ffdshow video decoder configuration ffdshow is an open source DirectShow and VfW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, XviD and other open source libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters. ... MPlayer is a free media player with support for more multimedia formats than any other media player. ...

Google Video Player

Google Video Player
The main window.
Developer:	Google
Latest release:	1.0.3.3 / ?
OS:	Mac OS X, Windows
Use:	Video player
License:	Freeware
Website:	http://video.google.com/playerdownload

Google Video Player is another way to view Google videos; it runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The Google Video Player renders files in Google's own Google Video File (.gvi) media format and supports playlists in "Google Video Pointer" (.gvp) format. When users download to their computers, the resulting file will be a small .gvp (pointer) file rather than a .gvi file. When run, the .gvp file will download a .gvi (movie) file to the user's default directory. Image File history File links Google_Video_Player. ... Image File history File links Google_Video_Player_window. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Google, Inc. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... Video player can refer to the following: Hardware video players: VCR Laserdisc player DVD player Software Video Players: Windows Media Player MPlayer This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ...

While early versions of Google's in-browser video player code were based on the open source VLC Media Player, the current version of Google Video Player is not based on VLC, according to its readme file. However, it does include the OpenSSL cryptographic toolkit and some libraries from the Qt widget toolkit.^[3] The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. ... A readme (or read me) file contains information about other files in a directory or archive and is very commonly distributed with computer software. ... OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. ... The German Lorenz cipher machine, used in World War II for encryption of very high-level general staff messages Cryptography (or cryptology; derived from Greek κρυπτός kryptós hidden, and γράφειν gráfein to write) is the study of message secrecy. ... In computer programming, Qt is a cross-platform graphical widget toolkit for the development of GUI programs. ... Widget is a general-purpose term, or placeholder name, for any unspecified device, including those that have not yet been invented. ...

GVI format and conversion

Google Video Files (.gvi), and latterly its .avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC "goog" immediately following the header. The video is encoded in DivX4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX video players can render .gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from .gvi to .avi, although this method of just renaming the file extension does not work with videos purchased with DRM to inhibit unauthorized copying). Among other software VirtualDub is able to read .gvi files and allows the user to convert them into different formats of choice. There are also privately developed software solutions, such as GVideo Fix, that can convert them to .avi format without recompression. MEncoder with "-oac copy -ovc copy" as parameters also suffices. AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ... A FOURCC (literally, four character code) is a sequence of four bytes used to uniquely identify data formats. ... DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ... DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. ... Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. ... VirtualDub is an open source video capture and linear processing tool for Microsoft Windows. ... MEncoder is a command line video encoding tool released under the GNU General Public License. ...

Very simple conversion with no program

1. It is simple to convert a GVI or GVP file. First, download file. Then open file with notepad. There will be a URL address. Copy the URL into your browser. You will then get a download window from a Google server for the file's real format; AVI, MPEG, WMV, ect. Also, the URL will turn blue.

2. An alternative way is to add the following text into your favourites/bookmarks:

javascript:if(document.getElementById('macdownloadlink')!=null){window.location.href=document.getElementById('macdownloadlink')}else{alert('Go to Google Video to download videos as AVI.')};

When you are on a page of a video, click this added favourite/bookmark. It will then ask you to open or save the download.

AVI and MP4

Besides GVI and Flash Video, Google provides its content through downloadable Audio Video Interleave (.avi) and MPEG-4 (.mp4) video files. Not all formats are available through the website's interface, however, depending on the user's operating system. FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (also called Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. ... AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ... MPEG-4 is a standard used primarily to compress audio and video (AV) digital data. ...

If available, Google's "save as" function for Windows/Mac will produce an .avi file, while the "save as" function for iPod and PSP will produce an .mp4 file. A white fifth generation iPod with a sleeve and earphones. ... The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated as PSP) is a handheld game console released and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. ...

The .avi file is not in standard .avi format. To play the file in a popular media player such as Winamp or Windows Media Player, the file must first be modified using a hex editor (for example the XVI32.exe editor) to delete the first LIST block in the file header, which starts at byte 12 (000C hex) and ends at byte 63 (003F hex). Optionally, the file length (in bytes 5 to 8) should then be amended by subtracting 52 (3F hex - 0C hex = 34 hex).

Winamp and Windows Media Player cannot play the unmodified .avi file because the non-standard file header corrupts the file. However, Media Player Classic, MPlayer and the VLC Media Player will play the unmodified .avi file, and the Google .mp4 file, if a DirectShow Filter such as ffdshow is installed. Media Player Classic is a compact media player. ... MPlayer is a free media player with support for more multimedia formats than any other media player. ... The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. ... Logo of the DirectX Media SDK - the first time DirectShow was distributed under its current name. ... ffdshow video decoder configuration ffdshow is an open source DirectShow and VfW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, XviD and other open source libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters. ...

An .mp4 file will play in Winamp if an MPEG4/H.264 DirectShow Filter such as ffdshow and an MP4 Splitter such as Haali are installed, and the extension ;MP4 is added to the Extension List in the Winamp DirectShow decoder configuration. ffdshow video decoder configuration ffdshow is an open source DirectShow and VfW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, XviD and other open source libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters. ...

Third-party download services

Third party browser extensions^[4][5], bookmarklets^[6] and websites^[7] facilitate direct and straightforward downloading of all available formats and offer access to users of operating systems not officially supported by the Google Video downloading system. A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. ...

External embedding of Google Video files

Google Video allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Video without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. // One difference in the latest HTML specifications lies in the distinction between the SGML-based specification and the XML-based specification. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ...

Uploading videos

Users may choose to upload videos either through the Google Video website [1] (limited to 100MB) or alternatively through the Google Video Uploader, available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Major producers with a thousand or more hours of video can apply for Google's Premium Program. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ...

While the Video Uploader application is available as three separate downloads, the Linux version is written in Java, a cross-platform programming language, and will therefore also work on other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, without modifications, providing that the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. Also worthy of note is the fact that this Java executable (.jar) file is a standalone application that does not require installation. Consequently, it can be run from removable media such as USB flash drives, CD-ROMs, or network storage. This allows users to upload video even if the computer terminal on which they are working will not allow them to install programs, such as a public library computer. Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... The Java Runtime Environment, or JRE, is a software bundle from Sun Microsystems that allows a computer system to run a Java application. ... A USB drive, shown with a 24 mm U.S. quarter coin for scale. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...

Market adoption

Despite availability of downloading in multiple formats, being less restrictive on video uploads, and google being a well known organization, google video has had little adoption from the online video market. According to one poll, Google Video has about 8% ,while Youtube has about 27%^[8]

Availability of service

While initially only available in the United States, over time Google Video has become available to users in more countries and can now be accessed from many other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and India.

Regardless of general availability, content providers are given the opportunity to limit access to video files to only users from certain countries of residence. However, methods of circumventing geographical filtering^[9] exist.

Criticisms

Google Video has little organization of content and no noticeable pricing scheme^[10][11]. However, pay content (available currently in the United States only) is arranged in a few categories. A video ranking in the form of a Top 100 has been introduced and the official Google Video Blog features "Google Picks" (videos considered noteworthy by Google) on a regular basis. "Google Picks" are currently also available via the Google Video homepage.

While the lack of a fixed pricing scheme may be perceived as confusing by a number of users, it does offer content providers a wider scope in terms of individual pricing. Whether this pricing concept will be accepted and retained beyond beta remains to be seen.

There has also been criticism regarding varying standards used by Google on evaluating the content of each video for suitability. For example, Google might accept a video featuring graphic violence and profanity, but reject a milder one, with no apparent means of objective analysis. ^{[citation needed]}

The video uploading tool also receives various complaints, due to its "Uploading failed" error message which seems to appear in random cases without any explanation why the upload was not successful. This message sometimes also appears when the upload was successful which can be problematic as the same video may be uploaded again. Google has not yet addressed this issue. [2]

Some users who have uploaded videos have reported that their viewing figures have been reset, most notably, Alex Jones's TerrorStorm and Loose Change 911. And the comments for such videos and videos pertaining to controversial subject matters are getting deleted. Notable men called Alex Jones: Alex Jones (U.S. journalist) Alex Jones (British playwright) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Flyer for a screening of the documentary Loose Change is a controversial film written and directed by Dylan Avery and produced by Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas. ...

Additional criticism of Google Video has been on a lack of end user tools to add tables of content and chapters to the videos, which make longer format videos easier to annotate, view, navigate and understand.

Notes

1. ^ Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion
2. ^ National Archives and Google Launch Pilot Project (...) (NARA press release, published on 2006-02-24)
3. ^ Copyrights for Google Video Player, noting the inclusion of several open source libraries
4. ^ VideoDownloader extension for the Firefox browser
5. ^ Greasemonkey (an extension for the Firefox browser), with corresponding user scripts from zeekat.nl or userscripts.org
6. ^ Google Video Download Bookmarklets (download Google Video files in FLV, AVI and MP4 format; does not work under Windows 9x or Windows ME.)
7. ^ keepvid.com, javimoya.com, clipnabber.com, VideoDL.org (download helper websites)
8. ^ [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/08/google_youtube_and_myspace_an.html Google Video, YouTube and MySpace Vids: An Update], August 16, 2006
9. ^ Watch Google Videos in any country (bypass Google Video's geographical filtering)
10. ^ Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure (a New York Times editorial, by David Pogue, published on 2006-01-19)
11. ^ C|net Editor's Review For Google Video (Beta) (edited by James Kim, reviewed by Troy Dreier on 2006-02-07)

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See also

• Comparison of video services
• iTunes Video Store (Video Store by Apple)
• YouTube
• vMix
• GoFish
• Metacafe
• Youare.tv
• Dailymotion
• MSN Soapbox
• blip.tv
• Videosift

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External links

Official Links

• Google Video (Official Homepage)
• Google Video Top100 (Official Ranking of most popular videos)
• Official Google Video Blog
• Source code for Google's changes to VLC Viewer.

Unofficial Links

• Mobile Video Search how to search, download, and view Google Video on your mobile phone
• Google Video Highlights, a video blog on Google Video
• Google Video Converter a web based interface to Download Google Videos
• Vewgle, an unofficial forum about the site
• Search Engine Journal The importance of Video in Google's strategy
• GVTV, a desktop interface to Google Video