Monday, June 27, 2005

News: Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday

From John Battelle's Searchblog:

Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. This is the logical next step for Google's video search and upload function, which began taking uploads from anyone who cared to submit back in April.

Google will not disclose the raw numbers of videos that have been uploaded to date, but the company will make all those which were tagged as "free" available for real time streaming through the VLC player, which Google has modified and will make available for download Monday morning. The company also intends to make its VLC code available to the open source community as part of their Google code project.
See John Battelle's post for relevant links.

Food for thought. Google has announced a paid service. John Battelle eludes to how Google's paid service could become a distribution medium for independent content creators with the DRM issues of cable companies and film studios.


Posted by: djuggler | 1:11 PM |