Google Video - .gvi=.avi

[krmathis]

You forgot to add that it has a price tag of $20.

Anyway, this really look like advertising to me!

[fkuehne]

Yeah, but since it is related to streaming media, I think that we can keep it in our coffee section.

Anyway, VLC is probably able to do the same, although it won't export AVI but ASF files (which is the better format btw.).

[dionoea]

GVI is just plain AVI with FOURCC "GOOG" added after the AVI header. That shouldn't be too hard to change to AVI (a small perl script is available on the web to do the conversion). Anyways, VLC can read GVIs.

[Guest]

GVI is just plain AVI with FOURCC "GOOG" added after the AVI header. That shouldn't be too hard to change to AVI

Is a hex editor able to do the job (ie changing GOOG to DIVX) or is there some checksum to edit as well ?

a small perl script is available on the web to do the conversion

Where ?

[dionoea]

In the hex editor you'd have to *remove* GOOG (not replace it)

The perl script can be found using (the first two links look ok):
http://www.google.com/search?q=gvi2avi

[SoothingR]

It'd be ridiculous to pay the $20 for such a program. With some work arounds, it is possible to download the avis directly from the Google Video servers. Add the following to your favourites:

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

..And use that favourite when you're viewing a site of a video which you would like to download.

[NoCommerce]

Forget about commercial gvi to avi converters! All Bulls..t!

Naevius^^ and GVideoFix v2.0 are big programs for such a small task like removing the header information from the AVI files (more precisely a list of type “goog”). Naevius with 37.6 Mb and 20$ isn´t even worth thinking about, GVideoFix 2 - ok, 4.19MB and donation-ware.

A very nice and small tool converts it for free. Daelin´s free GVI2AVI http://www.kultiras.net/programs/Gvi2Avi.zip does the job perfect. Just 96 KByte and voila. .NET Framework (2.x) necessary.

[Russell]

I love GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE no one can be like the big G, stop dreaming Yahoo & MSN



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[MotoGeek]

any hardcore techies out there looking how to fix a gvi (avi) file that they downloaded from google...

here is the manual fix:

1. using a hex editor (i use xvi32)
2. correct the header of the file to match as shown below



basically... you insert about two characters in hex... and delete about 20...

and viola... your avi will now play in wmp...