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Google Video is a service provided by '' Google '' that allows anyone to upload Video Clip s to ''Google'' Competing services include YouTube , IFilm , IFC Medialab and ITunes Video Store . VIDEO CONTENT ''Google Video'', which is officially still in beta stadium, is targeted for offering a large quantity of searchable video. Besides publishing amateur media, internet videos, viral ads and movie or TV show trailers ''Google Video'' aims for distributing professional commercial media such as televised content and movies. ''"Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day. Google Video enables you to search a growing archive of televised content – everything from sports to dinosaur documentaries to news shows."'' (Google Video FAQs) Various media creators are to offer their content for a fee, including press release, published on 2006 - 02-24 ) VIDEO DISTRIBUTION METHODS ''Google Video'' offers free services and commercial videos, the latter protected with Digital Rights Management . A Macromedia Flash viewer plays videos in Flash Video (.flv) format inside the web browser. Alternatively ''Google Video Player'' is available for download, a VLC Media Player based application which currently only runs on Microsoft Windows . The Open-source ''Google Video Player'' renders files in ''Google'' Besides Flash Video and GVI, ''Google'' provides its content through Audio Video Interleave (.avi) and MPEG4 (.mp4) files. Not all formats are made available through the website's interface, though, depending on the users operating system. Third party browser extensions Greasemonkey (an extension for the Firefox browser), corresponding scripts zeekat.nl , userscripts.org (Greasemonkey scripts for ''Google Video''), bookmarklets Google Video Download Bookmarklets (download ''Google Video'' files in FLV, AVI and MP4 format) and websites keepvid.com , javimoya.com (download helper websites) do however facilitate direct and straightforward access to all available formats and can ease video consumption for users of operating systems not officially supported by ''Google Video''. GVI FORMAT AND CONVERSION Google Video Files (.gvi) are Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files with an extra list with the FOURCC "goog" immediately following the header. The video is encoded in DivX 4 alongside an MP3 audio stream. DivX video players and various portable video players such as the Archos AV500 can render Google Video Files without format conversion after changing the extension from .gvi to .avi. Among other software VirtualDub is able to read .gvi files and allows to convert them into different formats of choice. EXTERNAL USE OF GOOGLE VIDEO FILES ''Google Video'' allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on ''Google Video'' without running into bandwidth issues or holding substantial storage capacities on their own. UPLOAD OF VIDEOS Users have to download the ''Google Video Uploader'' in order to upload videos. Major producers with 1000 or more hours of video can apply for a . The ''Video Uploader'' is available on Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X and Linux . While the application is available as three separate downloads, the Linux version is written in Java , a Cross-platform programming language, and will therefor also work on other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows , without modifications. The Java version of ''Google Video'' Uploader does not require installation and can be run as a standalone application from removable media such as CD-ROM and USB Thumb Drive s. The only requirement for an operating system to run the Java application is that it has a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE At the time of the initial release of ''Google Video'' to the public users in many regions outside of North America were unable to use the service and denied access to ''Google Video'' ''"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."'' Several ways to work around this restriction have been found and published Watch Google Videos in any country (bypass ''Google Video'' Over time ''Google Video'' has made its services available to users in more countries and can now be accessed from many nations outside the U.S. (e.g.: France, Germany). Regardless of the general availability of ''Google Video'''s services, content providers are given the opportunity to limit access to their video files to users from certain nations of residence. The above-mentioned ways of circumventing geographical filtering Watch Google Videos in any country (bypass ''Google Video'' CRITICISM ''Google Video'' is sometimes questioned about its video quality with some believing it to be poor, a complaint which is not exclusive to ''Google Video'' but brought upon many similar services also. Many factors contribute to this issue. The quality of videos on offer depends on the quality of the original media uploaded to ''Google Video'', a vector that is for the most part beyond ''Google'' Another popular criticism is that ''Google Video'' has little organization of content and no noticeable pricing scheme Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure (a ''New York Times'' editorial, by David Pogue, published on - 02-07 ). In terms of finding videos ''Google Video'' is geared to keyword-based search rather than structured directories. Pay content is arranged in few categories while free content is not categorized. A videoranking in the form of a '''' features ''"Google picks"'' (videos considered noteworthy by ''Google Video'') on a regular basis. While the lack of a fixed pricing scheme may be perceived as confusing by a number of users it does offer content providers a wide scope in terms of individual pricing and offers room for creative new marketing concepts. Whether this pricing concept will be accepted and retained beyond the beta stadium remains to be seen. It would also seem that the people responsible for verifying the content of each video for suitability have widely varying standards. For example, they might accept a video featuring graphic violence and profanity, but reject another, milder one, with no apparent means of objective analysis. NOTES SEE ALSO
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