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respiridus · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject: Google Video

http://video.google.com/

Oh Yeah!

It's not just images anymore: Now, you can use Google to search for video clips. All are converted into FLV format, so they should be playable from any computer, anywhere, without additional software.

I like this one:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6965425855476369520&q=cyprus

Crash Test Dummy · Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 4911 Location: London(ish)

i been using this for ages. was waiting them to make it available.

Khan · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 1092 Location: London

I like this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4758511336689739389&q=Turkey

Promotional video of Istanbul, quite high production

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3369 Location: Larnaca area

Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.

:dunno: :dunno:

Xenos 2Fan · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: Re: Google Video

respiridus wrote: http://video.google.com/

Oh Yeah!

It's not just images anymore: Now, you can use Google to search for video clips. All are converted into FLV format, so they should be playable from any computer, anywhere, without additional software.

I like this one:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6965425855476369520&q=cyprus

Is that you driving respi? :lol:

Xenos 2Fan · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:24 am Post subject:

Khan wrote: I like this http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4758511336689739389&q=Turkey

Promotional video of Istanbul, quite high production

This was really cool when I first saw it. 8) 8)

zan · Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 962

I love those two Japanese students from here. http://video.google.com/ They cracked me up.

respiridus · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

city wrote: Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.

:dunno: :dunno:

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I checked in their legal papers, and they don't say anything about restricting playback to certain countries. Maybe you should try to contact them?

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3369 Location: Larnaca area

respiridus wrote: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I checked in their legal papers, and they don't say anything about restricting playback to certain countries. Maybe you should try to contact them?

nah, its not that important to me...

zan · Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 962

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4446981554735098778

Mete · Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 1150 Location: Boston

This is so funny: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2545757182364984369

It's about Turkish Firemen practising their "skills" but it turns into a disaster..

Xenos 2Fan · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:11 am Post subject:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

zan · Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 962

Thats not funny. Watch it again and you will see it is an assasination attempt. :roll:

erolz · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 4195 Location: Kyrenia / Girne

city wrote: Thanks for your interest in Google Video.

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.

We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.

:dunno: :dunno:

I also have this problem because my sat based internet connection downlinks in Germany - and thus I appear to google to be in Germany.

However I was not going to let that stop me :)

I could have used a proxy server to make it look like I was in say the UK (if the proxy server was based there) but thats a pain, and it doesn't help city , or any other german members either.

So I noticed the 'link code' to the left of the google video page telling me I can not view the video. I wondered if that link was placed on a UK server, and then I viewed it from that sever, would I be able to see it. The answer was yes I could.

So then I thought wouldn't it be a useful 'feature' for the site if our german users could copy and paste such google video links in their onw posts and then use that link on the forum to 'get round' not being able to view the video directly via google.

Here is where it started to get complicated :)

I did not want to just allow the necessary html tags directly to be allowed (object,embed and param) for various reason, and anyway when I tried that it did not work. However there was a mod that created a bbcode tag for 'flash' content. So I have now installed that. In short if your take out of the google video 'link' code the 'right bit' and use that with the new bbcode flash tag in theory you should be able to embed a google video clip into a forum post AND it should be viewable by those with a German IP address. In practice it would appear to work in Firefox but not IE.

So here goes, for firefox users, even ones with german IP's below should be the said video clip (which is very funny imho).

Still bemused why it is not working in IE - but working on that. Hope to get it fixed in IE as well.

Enjoy the video clip city (hopefully) :)

city · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 3369 Location: Larnaca area

erm, this one does not work at all. Its just a small pic. But I just answered your post in the test section and there everything was just great! Thanks a mill!! :D :D