Google videos?

Energize · 8 May 2006 at 18:06

Can anyone tell me why they are all crap quality?

Stellios · 8 May 2006 at 18:07

You got it set to display in full screen?

KizZ · 8 May 2006 at 18:07

Because they must load fast?

Energize · 8 May 2006 at 18:08

I have to shrink it down loads and it still isnt good, they must be using the worst codec avalible or something. Havent they heard of divx?

DaveyD · 8 May 2006 at 18:21

I think the point of the Google Video system is to provide a universal video player system not requiring anything else but flash and no codecs etc, so therefore the systems are working hard in the background to convert thing videos to the flash system, probably anyway, but I'm probably waffling a little also.

axe · 8 May 2006 at 18:24

Well are you going to pay google to index all there videos in high quality? i mean it takes space and bandwith....

Deleted member 651465 · 8 May 2006 at 18:26

One word; Bandwidth

They have to compromise due to the mega-bandwidth usage + the fact it's in flash doesn't help much

iCraig · 8 May 2006 at 18:30

Energize said:
Can anyone tell me why they are all crap quality?

Because people would moan if they were good quality but had to pay.

Google cannot win.

However I think Google Video is great, no need for codecs - just click and play.

Its not exactly unwatchable.

Stellios · 8 May 2006 at 18:31

I like it, just wish you could download the videos. Its a pain having to stread 100mb videos when you want to watch them, especially when your on a 3GB cap at peak time.

Pho · 8 May 2006 at 18:34

Stellios said:
I like it, just wish you could download the videos. Its a pain having to stread 100mb videos when you want to watch them, especially when your on a 3GB cap at peak time.

Firefox + http://videodownloader.net/ = downloads

Stellios · 8 May 2006 at 18:46

Ooooo, your a clever bugger aint ya

Thanks a lot matey, much appreciated.

NathanE · 8 May 2006 at 18:55

Because Flash Video sucks.

Energize · 8 May 2006 at 19:24

EVH said:
One word; Bandwidth

They have to compromise due to the mega-bandwidth usage + the fact it's in flash doesn't help much

If they used divx they wouldnt need more bandwidth.

DaveyD · 8 May 2006 at 19:45

Energize said:
If they used divx they wouldnt need more bandwidth.

At a guess, they don't for a good reason, and it divx probably takes up more bandwidth, unless you can prove otherwise. And again, it's a universal system, so everybody can use it on whatever browser with flash installed, to be simple.

They've probably already got videos stored with a good divx style codec in the background, to keep it small enough and of reasonable quality to watch.

Energize · 8 May 2006 at 19:57

With divx you can set the bitrate to whatever you want, so it takes up less bandwidth.

Raymond Lin · 8 May 2006 at 20:02

Pho said:
Firefox + http://videodownloader.net/ = downloads

That got me all excited but it doesn't work for this ad

http://www.frenchconnection.com/campaign_06ss_video_film.html

Mic · 8 May 2006 at 20:06

Because you touch yourself at night.

Pho · 8 May 2006 at 20:10

Raymond Lin said:
That got me all excited but it doesn't work for this ad

http://www.frenchconnection.com/campaign_06ss_video_film.html

That's because that extension only supports sites which It's been written to support.

Using my flash haxoring skills I found this for you. Right click > save as, open with an FLV player.

http://www.frenchconnection.com/media/06ss/video/vid_film_hi.flv

james.miller · 8 May 2006 at 20:13

Pho said:
Firefox + http://videodownloader.net/ = downloads

awsome, ain't it? :cool:

Jotun · 8 May 2006 at 20:18

The google videos are actualy .avi files (all the ones i downloaded anyway) and fairly decent quality, it's just the flash resizing them that makes it look bad.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/download-google-videos-as-avi-files.html

Google videos?

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