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- konrad8ha, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Funny, 'cause on my Linux box I always downloaded them as AVIs by default. Poor Windows users :-(
(gentoo is the r0X0r!) - fishnchips, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Ditto for Mac - didn't even know there was a problem with Windows....
- mwales, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Cool. Worked for me (Ubuntu Dapper x86_64, Firefox 1.5) which is great since 64-bit Flash still doesn't exist.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12"You "didn't even know there was a problem with Windows...."? It IS the problem!"
groan.... - babbling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It doesn't. It uses MPEG-4. The problem is that you're trying to play it in Winamp... Try it with a proper media player, like VLC or MPlayer.
Here: http://mpui.sourceforge.net/ - ionut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You need Google Video Player for DRM videos you buy from Google Store.
- misteryxz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Same thing - only for FLV, AVI and MP4! Plus Break.com, Putfile, Metacafe, YouTube, Myspace and Dailymotion:
http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html
Funny that it didn't make it to the front-page, but this less powerful bookmarklet did.
See: http://digg.com/technology/Video_Downloads_-_A_Great_One-Click-Solution_ - justintime32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes. I use Ubuntu as well and I have always been able to download it as an AVI.
- jakemitchinson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This about downloading video to be used WITHOUT the googlevideo player, so that the video can be used with other media players.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Nice to have it as avi from a script bookmarklet.
- rimco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm... GVI? AVI? Anyone seeing the similarities there? Rename the extension and poof, you have an AVI. Yes, it works (at least it does on my Xbox Media Center). It's just an MPEG-4 file with a different extension... otherwise, it's pretty much identical.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3the downloaded AVI doesnt seem to suffer from bad quality like the GVP files or the downloaded and converted MPEG-4 files.
The file size is the same as original. Google compresses the AVIs that Linux and OSX get - sirmasterboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought AVI was just a container. What codec are the videos in? If you download the ipod format and rename it to .AVI it will still play, but that doesnt make it an .AVI
- Mundo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was unable to play the video back in WinAMP? Must use some dodgey codec as i've got all the usuals...
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, this is very nice. Thanks a lot whoever made this.
- justintime32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you download it on Linux or Mac, it gets saved as an AVI. If you're on windows, it will download a file you can only play in Google Video Player. At least that's how I interpret it.
- tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1interesting, i cant drag the bookmarklet to the links bar in IE7.
- konrad8ha, on 10/12/2007, -12/+13You "didn't even know there was a problem with Windows...."? It IS the problem!
- babbling, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Isn't the file extension just different when downloaded on Windows? Just rename the file from whatever.gvp to whatever.avi. Stupid Google are trying to force Windows users into using their player, I guess.
Linux and Mac users get avi files by default. - zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm assuming it depends on the size, but from what I tried it with (minute and 4 seconds) the quality was amazing compared to what I'd expect.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3OLD NEWS, REALLY OLD NEWS.
- ionut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you can't see the videos or you player gives errors, try Media Player Classic.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?download (for 2000/XP)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc98me6490.zip?download (for 98) - coolguy69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there any other way other than downloading a different player software ... a CODEC perhaps? to play the file
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Oh you get it as default when you DL using a mac
..*set phasers to smug*... - CalAggie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After downloading a few videos, it seems that they are encoded with DivX 4 (OpenDivX).
- cillian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, i'm on gentoo, with firefox and mplayer-plugin - the video normally plays for me just fine in the browser, without downloading. And this bookmark-let works great for me. Thanks :D
- DickBreath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Using SuSE Linux, I've been downloading Google videos as AVI files for ages now, and playing them without problem in KDE's Kaffeine (based on Xine).
I also, sometimes, use a GreaseMonkey script for FireFox to download the FLV files in addition to the AVI. (I also use GreaseMonkey scripts to download the FLV files from YouTube.) - coolguy69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is there any other way other than downloading a different player software ... a CODEC perhaps?
- wolkengrau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, not exactly, because it doesn't work the other way round.
I think there is additional data in a GVI, which isn't in an AVI. This data is ignored by an AVI-player, but is necessary to make the file work in the Google Video Player. - toad3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah I noticed this too. Thankfully at least google is looking out for us.
- VideoRecord, on 12/25/2008, -0/+1I use Replay Media Catcher to download video from the Internet. It supports more online video services than any other streaming video downloader. And it can convert videos, extract audio tracks from FLV files, burn DVDs
http://www.replay-media-catcher.com - vexx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It Always download in avi when your using Linux.
In fact I use a agent switcher on windows to download to avi. - starbirix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It tripped me out the first time I had my Mac sitting next to a lab machine (WinXP) and what I was seeing was different.
- ideefix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2multumesc ionut ;)
- eviscerator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3i was thinking the same thing
- odarky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1SWEETTTT!!!!!!
- whiteghetto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apparently this is a dupe, but I haven't seen it before. Thanks ;)
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Seeing as all the bookmarklet does is downlaod the video using the mac download link, I find that rather unlikely.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1LOL, I thought this was a feature of google videos because I had always had it on my mac in safari. Just one more reason why linux and OS X are much better then windows.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is cool.
I wish there was something like this for YouTube - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Oh you get it as default when you DL using a mac"
With any browser or just the browser you happen to use? - ionut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The other Digg posts ( http://digg.com/software/Save_Google_Video_as_AVI_from_the_web_browser and http://digg.com/software/Save_Google_Video_as_AVI_from_the_web_browser ) were saying to download the .gvp file from Google Video, open it in Notepad and copy-paste the address from that file. Using the bookmarklet, it's much easier: just a click.
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1bo *****, whenever I click download for Mac/Windows i get an AVI file.
- jandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aparently for mac users it was always avi files ..poor windows guyz
- mutant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1/meh
- dppgroup, on 10/02/2008, -0/+0File download information and search help at:
http://fileloader.blogspot.com/ - necrogoldo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1works just like http://www.keepvid.com
- UtubeVideo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great Utube video clips http://uutube.info Utube videos online.
- freebrowsers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Perfect Solution for download Google videos. Working good. No more hassles..no more waiting. http://free-web-browsers.com/
- 1024k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There is: http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html
I also derived a greasemonkey script from the bookmarklets: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4037 -
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