Google and VLC???

[Guest]

I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google's video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April. Google will not disclose the raw numbers of videos that have been uploaded to date, but the company will make all those which were tagged as "free" available for real time streaming through the VLC player, which Google has modified and will make available for download Monday morning. The company also intends to make its VLC code available to the open source community as part of their Google code project.

Now, before we start discussing how this represents the Death of Comcast/The Networks/Windows Media Player et al, this is not quite that, but it is the start of something big. For one, it's clear this will be integrated with the Google payment program which was revealed to be in process last week. Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out, but you can expect that it will.

AWESOME!!! Hope they release the Mac version as well .[/quote]

[zeno]

AWESOME!!! Hope they release the Mac version as well

I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing....
let's wait a couple of hours and we'll see....

[dionoea]

hum ... its weird that they've never contacted us for help (usually people don't understand VLC code ...) Could this be a hoax ? (anyways, its good to be on /. every now and then i guess)

[Quovodis]

check this out http://video.google.com/video_about.html

[Guest]

The "Google VLC player" is currently only for Windows, but apparently a Mac version should be coming soon...

"The clips play right in the page using the brand new Google Video Viewer, which was created by our engineer Aaron Lee using code from the open source Videolan project. It works great in both Firefox and IE, and we've designed it not to fight with any other video plugins you might have. We're releasing the Windows version first, with Mac coming soon."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/ ... eo_27.html[/i]

[rsaccon]

if you look at the patch, the changed not much, mainly renamed a few things and took out the mimetypes for audio/video-files and changed the mimetype for the plugin.

But in my opnion, this is the best thing which could ever have happened to VLC, that google is distributing it.

dos anybody know which codec they are using ?

[dionoea]

they're only distributing a small part of VLC (their installer is 1 MB big). They seem to be packaging it with ffmpeg. So i guess that they'll use mp3 for audio and mpeg4 (or h264 ?) for video.

[MegaHyster]

I downloaded the google player. I didnt like it, did not display video correctly. I've been using VLC almost exclusivly for a year now (winxphome, Athlon 2400, 768 ram, sp2)
I uninstalled the google player, then later went to watch a video in vlc, and the output looked the same as the google player! I tried uninstalling vlc, and reinstalling vlc-0.8.2-win32 to fix, but it didnot help. any ideas?

By not correctly, i mean washed out, fuzzy, and the colors don't look right. its unwatchable. I've never had a problem with vlc before, i recomend it to all my friends ( both of them ) would like to get it fixed, miss watching movies on my pc

thanks for any help!

[xtophe]

Try resetting your preferences.

[MegaHyster]

Done. Still no change to the picture. I did forget to mention, WMP plays correctly, but power dvd and nero showtime seem to be affected with the same problem.

Thanks for responding.

[MegaHyster]

Have now also tried uninstalling, then reinstalling divx. No change as of yet.