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- DROB003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Well its nice to see google consider the MAC....unlike Yahoo
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24yahoo only considers more advertising
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18I wont really use it, but its the thought that counts! Thank you Google for thinking about those of us with Macs!
- Nefarious_Denny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17There is nothing wrong with AVI files, you misinterpreted our distress. Before GVP for OSX, Google would let users with Macs download videos directly from video.google.com as AVI files, w/o the need for any ***** tools. But now with this GVP, we'll have to use their stupid format.
- macattacks10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yahoo Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) is only for Mac because it was formerly made by a developer for Mac first. But then they made it for Windows, and further along it was bought by Yahoo.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16cool. I've been waiting for this. now all I need is the mac itself.
- ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Google is taking over every aspect of my computer.
- longofest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yes. Downloaded and did Get Info, and it indeed reports that it is universal.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Yahoo have the most confusing website known to man!!
- christianw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10is it universal binary?
- birch25, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Yahoo Widget Machine anyone?"
that was a mac exclusive program for years before it was on windows. i'll never forgive yahoo for renaming it. konfabulator was the greatest software name of all time! - turtleJP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Actually just change the extension to .avi and then play fine in VLC. IIRC Google google used a lot of VLC code in their player.
My free tip of the day. - FreakTrap, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Noooo!!!!!!!
No more AVI files =( - springbok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Now if only there was something worth playing with the video player...
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8install this firefox extension. http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Download videos from google, youtube, and other sites and save them as a normal format that your regular media player software will play. Then you do not need to install extra software.
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh for pete's sake..
Make it a QUICKTIME COMPONENT, people!
The last thing we need is yet another player app.
-jcr - sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7wow, its here at last! good work google!
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Clearer video resolution on GVP, compared to the crap resolution on Flash (when watching a vid in-browser). Experience in Windows is good, should be just as much on OS X (especially since its Universal).
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Forgive my skepticism, but why is this player consequential at all? We can download the avi files off Google Video any time we want and watch them with almost any video player. Is built-in video.google.com functionality the only thing this application has to offer?
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mac, not MAC (Address)
- samsoffes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7yay google. i wish they wouldnt take so long to release mac versions though... but its google, who can be angry with google?!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If it's a 1GHz G4, then yes, that is needlessly fast. An equivilent x86 chip would have to be nearly double the speed. I've got a 2GHz Intel Mac, I'd hate to think that this is minimum spec
- uberushaximus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Nefarious_Denny
thirded
@itistoday
The complaint is about the getting rid of AVI and switching to gvp, which will make it unviewable in VLC :)
Edit: Nefarious_Denny Explained it first, thanks man :) - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah... sorry guys, I misunderstood. It seems we're all on the same page. BTW... sorry for my ignorance, normally I'm on top of these things, but how do you use this 'tool'??? It doesn't seem very intuitive...
Edit: OK, nm... apparently you can't download the Steven Colbert's performance... It'd still be nice if you could search for videos within the player itself, instead of doing the web browser player hybrid thing. - KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Aw, I liked my AVI files...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@the_snitch:
Carbon apps can be Universal Binaries, and many are. - Nefarious_Denny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Precisely my thought.
- NSResponder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Worse than I thought. It's a Qt app. (that's Qt, as in the excreble cross-platform GUI toy, not QT as in QuickTime.)
Google, if you're going to release anything for the Mac, make it native or don't bother.
-jcr - FredSanford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So is there a Google Video DRM system?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So? Quicktime comonents are just CODECs, they can handle the DRM, no app needed at all.
It's becoming like Windows where you need a slew of players to handle all the formats >.o - ellingswin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would have been really excited about this when Google Videos was initially announced, but now that everything can be viewed on the web, it isn't as important.
- ripcord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Finder is pretty far from being considered a "good" OS X app.
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ugh... Carbon... i hate fiber... i like chocolate... you know, the COCOA FLAVOR??
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51 Ghz or faster processor
oh my...
700MHz better watch out. :P - fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I feel gross downloading a Carbon App.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Why didn't they use Cocoa for the GUI? Weak.
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6What's wrong with AVI files? They're usually compressed very well via divx, and they play well in VLC, which of course is available not only for OS X, but just about every other platform known to man. So if you're complaining that Quicktime doesn't handle AVIs well, then... you're right. No matter what Apple may have you believe, QT simply cannot play everything VLC can, in addition to using more CPU than VLC.
http://videolan.org - vtequine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool. Good work Google! :) It's nice to see they're making all their programs for things other then Windows (aka Picasa on Linux...etc).
- Swissguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The reason it's its own app, is because of decryption capabilities built-in, for purchased Google video.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There's nothing wrong with Carbon. The old ideas that Cocoa is inherently superior to Carbon were debunked long ago. They both draw on the same CoreFoundation libraries in OS X. Cocoa is the object-oriented way to develop, and Carbon is the procedural way (and the way to use if you're cross-platform with Windows since it correlates well to Win32).
The Finder was programmed with Carbon. - safer9999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes it is!!!
Neal Saferstein - grendelwraith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They kept the interface to same to maintain consistency across the google video application.
Web site, Win32 App, and OS X app all use the same interface.
Less work programming.
All users use the same button for the same purpose.
That kinda makes sense. - fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Acctualy, no one knows what the finder is written in because it does not work like a carbon app and it does not work like a cocoa app.
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes there is - some content you have to purchase to watch, and all content you have to now download and play using this player.
Kind of a stillborn effort if you ask me. - grendelwraith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google is using the same interface on the website, on the windows XP app, and on the OSX app.
The only difference is window dressings.
Makes sense not to fraction your users with different interfaces.
Also less dev work.
Google=Smart when it comes to the tools they release.
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New user name with another bonch added?
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Is that banination I smell? - sspooner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Earth would be nice as a UB.
- spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very nice, I was unaware that Google hadn't released a Mac version which seems a little odd for Google... Oh well!
- Dithre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Ugly as sin.
- pmbauer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1GVP lets you watch movies bought from the google video store (DRM).
You can't do that in a browser. - turtleJP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, here is a pretty easy step by step to get your AVI files back.
Download movie file "whatever.gvp"
Open the movie in Google Video Player
Once the movie has completely downloaded just change the downloaded files extension to .avi and away you go.
Turtle -
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