Google videos?

[Raymond Lin]

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

You are a star !

 

[Al Vallario]

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

We all know what DivX is; we don't need a lecture on how amazing it is. The fact is, videos take up a lot of bandwidth (I've heard YouTube are spending $1m/month on bandwidth bills alone) and it's simply not viable to offer them - for free - in high quality. Besides, the majority of the videos featured on sites like YouTube and Google Video aren't very high quality in the first place. Flash video is much more compatible than DivX (>95% of web users have flash installed, whereas most of the general public have never heard of DivX) and, aside from the people who jump over backwards weaving through the source code to download the .flv files and re-encode them as something more friendly, it's not as immediately apparent how to download a FLV file compared to a DivX alternative.

 

[Energize]

We all know what DivX is; we don't need a lecture on how amazing it is. The fact is, videos take up a lot of bandwidth (I've heard YouTube are spending $1m/month on bandwidth bills alone) and it's simply not viable to offer them - for free - in high quality. Besides, the majority of the videos featured on sites like YouTube and Google Video aren't very high quality in the first place. Flash video is much more compatible than DivX (>95% of web users have flash installed, whereas most of the general public have never heard of DivX) and, aside from the people who jump over backwards weaving through the source code to download the .flv files and re-encode them as something more friendly, it's not as immediately apparent how to download a FLV file compared to a DivX alternative.

Lol I said 1 sentance about it and you call it a lecture. Divx doesnt need to take up anymore space than flash yet the quality is better, its common sense to use it. All google need to do is provide a link to the divx player, the public might not know all the different file types but they aren't retarded either. The replies in this thread would make you think people want crap video.