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06/07/2006, 9:30am, EDT
Wednesday, June 7th
Free Google Video player for Mac
Google has released another product for the Mac, allowing users to view both the free video and the previously-unavailable premium video content on a Mac. The free Google Video player allows users to watch videos downloaded from Google Video, view full-screen video, browse scenes within a video using thumbnails, skip to anywhere in the video (even if that portion hasn't downloaded yet), and resume video downloads automatically. It w The player requires a 1GHz or faster machine and a video card with at least 16MB of RAM. It runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later as Universal Binary for native support on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs.
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I'll keep working this to see if I am wrong.
Here, let's look at the above article. I'll even try to point out some important points:
the free Google Video player allows users to watch videos downloaded from Google Video, view full-screen video, browse scenes within a video using thumbnails, skip to anywhere in the video (even if that portion hasn't downloaded yet), and resume video downloads automatically.
So, why a player? Well, once you've downloaded a video, you can view it without launching a browser (or even have an internet connection). You can do full screen video (something you can't do with a browser), and use the software to download videos (like an FTP app).
The player can also play paid content purchased through the video service...