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Google Video Not Ready for Prime Time?
elfguy writes "Ars Technica has a piece on the Google Video Store, and their opinion is that it seems a little rushed to market. The interface is very bad, with paid and free videos mixed together. While free videos can be viewed in Flash on any platform, their paid DRM'ed videos require a Windows program, and the page tells you the available formats only after you purchase it." From the article: "As I pointed out in my coverage of the keynote, for all of its evangelization of open standards, Google has done an about-face with the video store. Not only are the videos protected by DRM, but Google has gone and rolled its own home-grown solution instead of using one of the current solutions. On one level, that makes sense: Apple doesn't share its DRM, and Microsoft is Google's biggest competition. However, inflicting yet another flavor of DRM on the public goes against the desire of many in Congress and in the consumer electronics industry to see a single, unified standard emerge."
Always infringing upon my Rights! What? This has nothing to do with Rights online or otherwise? Well damn them anyway...
Shift happens. Fire it up.
This is a general linux/flash gripe, but here goes, the Linux flashplayer has, since it's inception forever, had a/v sync issues. It's not a big deal on most things like flash games, but in video it's dreadful.
Anyone have any tips on how to fix this?
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