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09/27/2005, 8:20am, EDT
Tuesday, September 27th
Google improves video service, adds Mac support
Google has improved its Google Video service by eliminating the need for users to download software to play back videos, bringing support for both Linux and Mac users. The site now enables users to playback videos directly within a web browser without the need for additional software, according a company announcement on its seventh birthday. "There's no viewer to download, and the bigger video window (which expands automatically to your browser size) is now compatible with Mac and Linux as well as Windows. You can skip around in the video and start watching it instantly, even beyond what's been buffered. And you can watch a 10-second snippet of playable videos right on the results page - making it easier to decide whether you want to commit to the whole thing." In addition, Google is offering the series premiere of the UPN television network's "Everybody Hates Chris" show.
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Mark my words: Flash video has come of age with Flash 8. It's going to be Quicktime for editing and high-end dist, and Flash for the web.
Windows media will just have to thrash it out with MPEG1 for the online pr0n market.
J Treehorn
That's what I said dopey: 'it's going to be Quicktime for editing and high-end dist, and Flash for the web'. High end on the web, sure QT will be great but the web is about UBIQUITY. Flash IS everywhere. And Google isn't creating the video, they are providing a channel for displaying it with a link back to the original. Plus if the original is crappy, then Google's won't get any better. Plus plus the Google video is displayed at a size relative to your browser window, and very few web videos would be made at +1024 x 768, so of course it's going to look pixelated.
Stop being such a fanboy and go for practicality.
I personally prefer to encode in Quicktime 5 with Sorenson pro and Quicktime 7 H.264 for the Mac and a few lucky win users and Windows Media 9 for the windows users.