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Google Launches Pay-Per-View Web Video
Elliot Shepherd writes "According to John Batelle, on Monday Google is launching in-browser video playback based on VLC. Google has been accepting video uploads in April, including allowing the video owner to specify that payment is required, through the Google Payment Program." Update: 06/27 22:21 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "Google Video is now up. The about page describes what kinds of content has been uploaded to their servers so far -- mostly a random assortment of stuff from Gamespot's archives, a few things from Greenpeace, a Google recruiting video, some breakdancing videos, and other randomness. The in-browser video plugin works seamlessly (although Windows only for now). Looks like it has potential." Check the top entry on Google Blog for a few more words on it, too.
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Google is providing their infrastructure free of charge to let anyone upload video and have it be found.
So no matter what you search for, you're likely to come across a movie of someone etching "penis" in the snow
With VLC's ability to play pretty much any codec under the sun (including microsoft and realmedia's proprietary formats), maybe we'll begin to see more out-of-box compatibility with competing video players. I bet a lot of end-users are tired of codec searching any time they want to watch a certain video.
Is google trying to be all things to all people? We've had this, the paypal clone, the rumored gbrowser etc.
I'm not saying you can't diversify your core business but if you try too many projects at once you risk being a jack of all trades but a master of none.
I'm starting to feel a hint of worry about the direction of Google.
Simon.
What kind of content control does Google have in place for this service? (I haven't looked into it)
Is every file looked through to make sure it's not copyrighted? Or if the file depicts illegal activity, etc?
On the same note, would Google take files out if someone paid them to (eg. insulting clips, though not illegal, may tarnish a reputable name or something)
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
TFA says nothing about patents problems that VLC and other media players are facing (see http://www.videolan.org/patents.html). But with Google in the bandwagon, I guess this problem can be solved with a win on the open source front :-)
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Something about Mission Impossible.
After viewing the video: "This message will self destruct in 5 seconds".
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
+ pseudo-VGA + video capturing + ffmpeg encoder + bit torrent = mpegs all the world can see for free!
You may think this is illegal, but the fact that it is simply possible, shows that selling information like this is stupid. (Any links to downloadable mpeg of college_dork?)
The title of this story is completely misleading. Google aren't releasing a pay-per-view thing. In fact, TFA said that those videos which were tagged free were the ones that would be available at first...
"Plenty of folks uploaded video to Google with a payment option, and that has yet to roll out"
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
...PPV pr0n on Google?
Sign me up.
This would depend fully on the content, I think... who would pay to see TV shows and such when they could use a TV?
... but if the service is akin to, say, a subscription to CNN.com or something... I am not sure how well it would do (heck, any pay-for-video service on the web, I just am not sure on how it would do) ...
... http://www.ruckusnetwork.com/
... but in the end, would I pay for them?
Movie "rentals" aren't out of the question, to be sure...
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Admitedly, I've tried one (albeit for free, as the network was in beta)
Essentially its needs its own web browser, so I guess technically Google's got a leg up (and their video format is different, Ruckus uses WMV)
Probably not.
Someone might, I suppose, but how many need to before it becomes profitable?
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Ahh google, tapping deeper into what really runs the internet.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
They're trying to provide a global information infrastructure, and so far they are succeeding.
...so I'll have to try out the upgrade :)
Seriously - they should be using Mediaframe; it's open source, plugin-free ('playerless'), feature-rich and most improtantly, stable.
I ask what they intend to use because as a 'pay to use' service' (when it goes) ... they are vague as to what has been uploaded for video hosting and any future plans...
I doubt people are going to pay to see the Leeeeroy Jenkins video, let's say...
So they have to have some sort of plan...
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[and conversely, I doubt people will pay Google for them to host the Leeeroy Jenkins video, but then again, people do crazier things every day]
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I think I've started figuring google out.
Microsoft and Linux and MacOSX might actually be on the way out, or at least on the way to obscurity. All of these offer interfaces to the computer, and that's useful in its own way, but I think one thing that Google has figured out is that mastery of the computer is a means to an end, not an end unto itself. It's throwing an abstracted layer over the top of it all and owning that layer, and making it useful enough that people eventually aren't going to care what OS they're running, so long as it'll give us what google has to offer.
Google maps. Translation services. Multimedia access. Shopping/Pricing comparison. News. Wikipedia (well, not exclusively, but you get my point). Limitless-space email. They're coming closer to giving us what we expect computers to give their users in Sci-Fi movies.
Google's on the verge of becoming THE content broker. What's odd is that from this point of view, Yahoo is more of a player than Microsoft at this point. But they've got to be worrying. Most of what google's done has been collecting and mining, but with Google maps developing the way it is, it's obvious that they're doing more than just throwing a bunch of computer clusters at a problem.
Anyways, if this is what they're about, the consistency behind all their new forays, then maybe Microsoft's already lost the battle to Google, but they're stuck on what no longer matters as much, which is people's relationship to the computer. Google, by focusing on people's relationship to the content, is miles ahead now.
Yeah, yeah, -1 full of shit or totally obvious, but I really think this is the way it's going.
Google approached my company about uploading our content. We ultimately decided against it since they couldn't tell us what the terms were going to be. For example:
Me: How are you going to protect copyrighted material from being copied?
Google: We're working on that.
Me: You say video can be free or fee based. How does that work?
Google: We'd prefer free content, but you can also charge a fee. We will have a payment mechanism in place.
Me: In a fee-based scenario, what "cut" does Google want?
Google: We haven't decided.
Me: What if I upload free content and a LOT of people like/view it? How does Google make money?
Google: We reserve the right to charge the uploader if the content becomes "very popular."
Me: Define "very popular".
Google: We don't know yet.
Me: Why should I upload content if you can't answer these basic questions?
Google: You just should.
So unless they're just planning to get lots of home videos, I didn't see any real incentive for a content provider to participate. It costs real money to produce content so companies aren't going to just give it away.
Cheers,
Is this possible?
I've tried to use VLC to play RealMedia files / WMV 10, and I always get scads of error messages. Could you provide a bit more information on how to get VLC to do this?
It has been days since they launched a new service ;-) I was starting to get worried.
Maybe they will put this media player togather with Google Office, Google Voice Services and Google Gaming Engine to create ultimate Google Vaporware OS?
839*929
Call it an iTunes for everything that's not music, an Amazon for self-published eBooks, or an eBay for digital content, whatever you call it, there might well be space there for a big player...?
Yeah, this is newsworthy. Some dweeb makes junk up on his blog and it makes /.
"Is every file looked through to make sure it's not copyrighted? "
All content is copyrighted by default. Doesn't your comment just reflect the tyrany that copyright has become? Aren't you suggesting Google becomes judge jury and pre-censors all to avoid the risk of a copyright infringement?
Or did I misunderstand your comment?
TFA mentions some really neat stuff: Google is giving away the code. That means that folks will be able to take open source browsers, and extend them to use the video streaming code. You could set up your own streaming service too.
When I first heard about the Google's video hosting service, I thought, "SO WHAT."
But if others set up compatible porn video streamers, and others make firefox work with the video service well, then suddenly the combination of the video streaming and the video features (built in to browser) suddenly make them "gotta have" features --- esp. if porn video sites pop up.
Suddenly IE and WMV start looking totally behind the times. MicroSoft won't be able to integrate those features cheaply if they are done under a GPL: they are totally hosed, and have to play an expensive catchup game. Fine -- they do "embrace and extend", but it will cost them a lot of time and money.
In the meanwhile, pornlovers will have switched over, and M$ will be looking pretty useless.
If the people at Google are doing this on purpose, you have to give them credit for doing to Billy what he's done to so, so many others!
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_
This reminds me of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. He had a sub-plot centered around these techno-nerds that wired themselves up with a suit of computers and cameras.
They would run around everywhere there might be something remotely interesting going on and capture it. Then they'd copyright it and offer it for sale. If someone wanted it, they paid a royalty and could download it. It was all centered around some big company with lots of storage that made money off of hosting the video and getting it copyrighted. Kind of a higher-tech paparazzi, I guess.
"Well..here I am..." - Jubal Early
I'm not very familiar with the entire process, but what keeps someone from ripping some commercial video and putting it on the system and charging others to view it? If someone from one of these rogue countries does this, it's not like there could be any legal action against them, correct?
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You have two competing Porn services offered by Google.
Video-Based
Text-Based
Video version would have a welcome, like this:
"Welcome to Interactive porn, Ladies and Gentlemen, with Pay-Per-View Premium Video WebCam Shows to assist your Masturbatory Habits."
Text version would have a welcome, like this:
"Welcome to Interactive porn, Ladies and Gentlemen, It's like those Pay-Per-View WebCam Shows without the money, and in text form. Pr0n."
~The TwoTailedFox posts again....
Grainy Porn, Porn, Porn, Skateboarding Video shot on a Super-8, Porn, Porn, Video of someone's cat, Porn with someone's cat, Porn, Porn...
Of course they do, VLC is a GPL license project...
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
I cannot understand why a desktop application for
the video uploader has been developed? Why didn't they just use a web form for uploading videos?
Go go Google eyes.
This just in! 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
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This just in! 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
http://www.eonestudio.com/download/01.jpg Checkbox makes you certify that it is your material or that you have the right to upload it. It also makes you certify that you're not uploading pr0n.
This just in! 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
I was looking at VLC and I heard you could "carry" your codecs around. I was looking for software at one point to put onto a USB drive that would allow me to play my media anywhere I wanted. Is there any good VLC specific codec packs?
I am happy to see google going to this pay per view system on the web, they look like they might actually pull it off and we can start seeing the real value of some video going on the internet.
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
Depending on the prices people are willing to pay, and the amount of protection involved to prevent your "proprietary clips" from being leaked out to free websites, this could really help usher in some real leaps in portable video recording technology as people start to become "gargoyles".
What I'd really like to get my hands on is a system that is constantly recording to one drive, but overwrites after say....10 minutes, or 5 minutes, and then I have a button that lets me save the past amount of time to a second drive if I decide content was valuable enough to save permanently. It could have a wifi setup as well and a wearable interface as well so not only could I edit my content on the go, but I could also upload it right away to Google's service and start making money.
Does anybody know if any such thing exists?
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I don't like Google anymore and hope that they fail spectacularly. Google is a media company masquerading as a tech company. All their revenue comes from ads. Their primary product which is free displays information which they don't own and for which they don't have any rights (their search engine). This makes them very easy to replace. They have started re-implementing stuff (like e-mail) which has been around for years and thousands of companies already offer. But because they are 'Google' and some people are drinking their kool-aid a lot, they get all the hype. Netscape was innovative. Microsoft, love it or hate it, does some fantastic innovative stuff. But Google, they do stuff which has already been done a million times, and then thinks its somehow cool. Even Amazon is more innovative than Google.
This is why Google will fail by the end of 2010:
- They don't have a plan.
- They are easily replaceable. If Google falls of the face of the earth tomorrow alongwith its search engine, it won't matter.
- They don't do anything meaningful or remotely innovative in the software field.
- They are loading up with PHds and scientists. If these guys had any useful brains, they would be super rich already. Can you name ONE web related idea which could be credited to someone with a PHd ?
The Google bubble is about to burst and it is important for shareholders, employees and potential users to open their eyes and see the fire or be burnt by it.
Yet again Google manages to dig up something more we may want to search. Usability of video search heavily depends on the spread of broadband, but it seems to be advancing well as previously reported on SlashDot.
By the way, have you ever noticed how Larry and Sergey seem to be inseparable?
Almost like they spend every waking hour together.
Ever thought that maybe it means something?
Google stress-relief game
Why back in my day peoples annoying stories about their cats were in ASCII and they were 1KB...
Then came the web, and peoples stories about their cat got pictures, and it was 100KB, and still noone cared.
Then came the podcast about the cat, at 10MB, still annoying, but for broadband.
Now comes the video about the cat, 100MB, but now even the cat is pissed off.
How is this progress???
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
hmmm...wonder if the grokster ruling will have any effect on their plans to release this. I know they're not really promoting illegal activity, but what bad timing....
...no two people are not on fire.
I hadn't thought of that, that is a very good idea...
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Instead of presenting a collection of different formats on the service, google should pick only one and transcode all uploaded videos to that format.
Naturally my vote goes to theora because it is free from the patent problems that are causing so much harm to the software world.
On their page they say how threatened they are by Europe's Software patent push.
I for one hope Google can help this great media player stay in business.
Mods really need to learn the definition of "Insightful". "Interesting" possibly, definitely "Informative", but there's little insight in just quoting something.
I much prefer their way of spending the cash to the microsoft way : buying patents & sueing people.
./ share this opinion. Well, sorry to spoil your future, but you guys are in for a rude awakeningen when you realize that Google is the Walmart of the Internet. Any competitor site will be marginalized by Google's dominance.
A lot of people here at
Why does the fact that Google answers the questions make them less interesting?
You mean like cable TV and DVDs?
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
"Or if the file depicts illegal activity, etc?"
You mean someone would actually film themselves doing something illegal and then post it on the internet just for the bragging right?
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
^ 10 bux says it's coming out in 2 years.. :D
also try http://ourmedia.org/
Pr0n is the #1 driver of the Internet, so why is it not legal to upload that ? They should categorize video contents in two. Adults and non adults.
I have used their uploader and have a video for download right now.
r &time=0&page=2&docid=6131409577636313198&urlcreate d=1119894120&chan=Uploaded&prog=MGM+v.+Grokster&da te=Wed+Apr+13+2005+at+5%3A54+PM+PDT
1. Select a video and upload it to their servers. Add associated text, type of video (documentary, comedy etc), and authors.
2. They review the video for obviously infringing content and pornography. They except neither.
3. Your video is listed at video.google.com using any text you supply during the upload process.
4. Free videos appear in the listings with the universal play symbol next to the title.
This process is not very quick since real people review the vids.
To see what such a result looks like you can see my short/poor/test offering here:
http://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=grokste
I took that using a still camera's video option while waiting for MGM v Grokster to start.
-----------------The Welcome Note to the New Features-------------
Today we're pleased to announce that we're (finally) launching a new
Google Video feature: video playback of all that great content you
folks uploaded to us. Given that we started accepting uploads back in
April, this development is certainly long overdue; we'd like to
apologize for the delay and thank you for your newsgroup posts, your
emails, your blog posts... oh, yes, and your patience.
Feel free to test out our new playback feature. Keep in mind only the
videos that feature a small triangle "play" icon next to the snippets
of transcript text will allow playback. Try typing in the following
search terms to watch free videos: gamespot, Greenpeace, AdWords,
badminton, PS3, cattlemen, Hortus, sarong, breakdancing, capoeira.
Going forward, we plan to use this newsgroup to communicate product
changes and updates and respond to your inquiries in (ahem) a more
timely manner. Enjoy the video playback, and please do keep writing.
Google Video is still in beta; we have a lot of work to do to make this
product as good as it can be, and your opinions and ideas are always
welcome.
And so, of course, are your videos. Keep those uploads coming!
Thanks,
The Google Video Team
Apparently, Google's VLC doesn't have a GUI. It starts in a debug mode interface. And you can't launch it with wxwin. So they launched the player, but the videos launch later?
From their welcome note:
o ogle-Video/browse_thread/thread/1c3c182f2cc7215d/5 4db938f56c6904e#54db938f56c6904e
video.google.com
gamespot, Greenpeace, AdWords,
badminton, PS3, cattlemen, Hortus, sarong, breakdancing, capoeira
Source: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Google-Labs-G
First revolution: Agricultural Second revolution: Industrial Third revolution: Informatics Each revolution changes drastically the production mode of a society, thereby changing its institutions, ideology, etc. Companies like Google, Ebay, Amazon, the Open Source movement, etc are enabling millions of people to participate in a new economy not restricted by a fear and privilege based productive structure. We're seeing history in the making.
which works better for you? eg Yahoo concorde vs Google concorde
on top of which, google is returning 90% Fox tv news results. how is that not evil??!
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. hmmm
From the article: "Update: I neglected to mention that all the video in the "free" category has been "human scanned" for adult content and copyright violations, I'm told by a good source."
I was hoping there would be a "Safe Search" option like images.google.com
http://video.google.com/plugin/GoogleVideoViewer1. 0_Win.exe
Once installed, use video.google.com to find and play videos.
http://video.google.com/
Yep, it's live...
http://video.google.com/video_interesting.html
Speaking as a content uploader, the quality is simply rubbish.
Small videos, heavy compression. Web video as of 5-6 years ago. No playback controls.
Okay for reference, but this HAS to be a rough beta, it seems half-baked...
Now is the winter of our disco tent
Deja View camera does this on a smaller scale (only the last 30 seconds are cached).
>It could have a wifi setup as well and a wearable interface as well so not only could I edit my content on the go, but I could also upload it right away to Google's service and start making money.
Even with a longer timeframe, I'm not sure about the underpants gnomes business model you're suggesting...
1. Upload video to Google
2. ?????
3. Profit!
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A foreshadowing of what may lie ahead..
Remember, you're only as dense as the content you consume.
When you search the term Microsoft, look at the first result.
;)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=microsoft
Planned?
--NuAngel--
With a bit of stuffing around, you can access the content under linux by the looks of things..
m e=0&page=1&docid=-1557613506005379193&urlcreated=1 119913159&chan=Uploaded&prog=+sonycon+E3+05+ps3+ro ckstar+s+West+game+trailer&date=Tue+May+17+2005+at +3%3A43+AM+PDT'5 b4a049447b1&begin=30000&len=25733&itag=w320&docid= -1557613506005379193&urlcreated=1119913606&sigh=KF Dp2d7FaxUQC-GdGGOTBTjPskk')
.. it's a start, anyway.
* Install vlc, or mplayer (you'll probably need the mplayer codec pack too..)
* wget -O temp the link referenced by the blue 'arrow' for the video you're interested in. (eg: wget 'http://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=ps3&ti
* search for the vp.video.google.com reference, grab the URL, and mangle the %xx codes into something more reasonable (eg: http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com becomes http://vp.video.google.com/
* Zap that link into mplayer or vlc (eg: gmplayer 'http://vp.video.google.com/videoplayback?id=ef07
Unfortunately, I suspect that the slashdot comment mangler will kill those links, but you should be able to rebuild them.. (btw: the video is some ps3 thing at E3).
L.
So I have VLC 0.8.2 already installed, MacOS 10.4.1, use it to watch all sorts of formats that other players won't touch, now what? Sorry, but Googleviewer.exe just don't cut it. Anyhow, enter search term: balloon 4 out of 5 socalled links have a comment "Video is currently not available"
Family Guy!!
l y+guy%22&time=0&page=1&docid=-2212943784323106756& urlcreated=1119918684&chan=Uploaded&prog=+Family_G uy_-_First_Episode&date=Tue+Jun+7+2005+at+10%3A01+ PM+PDT
http://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=%22fami
Delivered instantly to your browser anywhere.
God bless Google.
how long do you guys think it will be befor there will be a hack out for this?
To pron!
What's next? Google online gambling?
I dream in binary.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000 061791,39177708,00.htm
Nothing sucks like a Vax, nothing blows like a PowerMac G4
Did anyone notice the entire Matrix Revolutions is available there in Google Video? Pretty cool. You might think it's just 30-second clips, but hit "Play whole video" and off it goes. Whole movie. Wondering if this is a special "show-off" case google snuck in, or a black-hat's upload?
see this link
Evan - needs to hit preview before submitting