I just read an interesting article at Arstechnica by Ken Fisher who was commenting on the termination of Google’s commercial Video service. The termination takes effect in just two days which would not be a big problem if the users who bought or rented videos from the service would still be able to play their purchased videos after that date.

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry, Online Services

Not long ago I wrote an article about converting flv files which are used by Youtube and Google Video to another format like avi and mpg to be able to watch them on your computer without the need of using a flv player or plugin. Fastdump pointed out in the comments that the program VDownloader would do the same faster and easier, what can I say – he was right.

Categories: Knowledge, The Web

Youtube and Google Video use the format flv, flash video, to stream the videos on their websites. If you download them using a firefox extension such as Video Downloader you might have problems playing them in your normal video player. One option would be to use a player that supports flv files such as the FLV Player. A better solution would be in my opinion to convert the flv files into avi or mpg which are widely supported and can be send to friends or burned on DVD easier.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Have you ever uploaded a movie to Google Video ? You can chose one of 38 categories like sports or business for the movie. Now, when you visit the Google Video page again you only have the option to click on a few categories on the top. There is no option to search most of the 38 categories: Until now.

Categories: Hacking

Well google video has finally a top list of the best rated videos that they host. There is not much to say about this, just the fact that positions might change on a daily basis so be prepared to find different movies in the top 100 every day. If you´re on broadband and have some time at hand visit the google video page and watch some of the movie clips offered there. Always good for a laugh..

Categories: Funny

Everyone probably knows Googles Video Service where you can search for videos and watch them online. Until know it was not easy to download a movie that you liked, that you probably would like to see again or show friends at home.

Categories: Search Engines

The home video uploads that Google has been testing back in 2005 turned into a service called Google Video

Categories: Search Engines