Comments on: Is this ilegal, or a marketing scam

Is this ilegal, or a marketing scam

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:27:07 -0800

Matrix Revolutions - google lets you see the whole movie, fullscreen, for free. (google video player download required. More Inside)

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:34:30 -0800

SlashDot Thread discussing DVD Jon who modified their open source video player to allow other websites to use it for video playback. You will need to click the watch whole video button at the top to receive more than 30 seconds. This seems like it could be part of googles ever expanding desire to do more online. Perhaps a future in media distribution or is this somehow a very very very large mistake? Also the use of the open source project Video Lan is yet another feather in googles pr hat with the open source community.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:34:30 -0800

1. I already have more video players than I want. 2. I can't get back the two hours I wasted seeing Matrix Regurgiations the first time.

By: cyphill

cyphill — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:39:57 -0800

excuse me, but do I have to watch it thirty seconds at a time (or is that the point)?

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:40:31 -0800

On preview perhaps smidgen inside would have been more appropriate. The player integrates with your web browser.Homepage for the player the google software is based on.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:41:18 -0800

Is this ilegal, or a marketing scam considering the cheap telesync look to it, i think the answer is pretty obvious. i wonder how long that will stay up.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:41:54 -0800

and cyphill no, you have to hit the play whole video button.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:50:37 -0800

teh suck

By: eustacescrubb

eustacescrubb — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:53:31 -0800

Is this ilegal, or a marketing scam Is that a false dilemma or a juxtaposition of two unlikely extremes? The player no worky on my Powerbook.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:04:31 -0800

Yeah, too bad they won't let us just use VLC. Not that I want to see that show again.

By: BoringPostcards

BoringPostcards — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:06:40 -0800

Matrix Revolutions - google lets you see the whole movie, fullscreen, for free. And worth every penny, it is.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:19:15 -0800

crap it didn't post the tags at first and then when it finally did it appended twice... I just wanted to stress that the movie was obviously crap.

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:22:45 -0800

Family Guy- Petarded Family Guy- First Episode Family Guy - North By North Quohog

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:40:30 -0800

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:41:12 -0800

The Daily Show - Even Steven (steve carrell v. stephen colbert)

By: birdherder

birdherder — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:42:58 -0800

no mac version available. fuckers.

By: davy

davy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:51:33 -0800

System Requirements Windows 2000 or later with latest updates installed Amen to birdherder. I'm running Fedora Linux and I have Windows 98 SE on the other hard drive. I just saw it at my sister's a couple weeks ago. Quotes abounded: the ones I recall offhand now were from the book Dune Messiah, the movies Hellraiser II and Aliens, and Galaga the old video game. It was sometimes fun to watch but made very little sense -- and what happened to the people physically plugged in to the Matrix?

By: davy

davy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:07:25 -0800

Could I somehow rig Videolan (which I just found) to play it on Linux via Firefox? I need a Real Geek to tell me whether or not it's possible before I waste gobs of time and carpality trying.

By: sourbrew

sourbrew — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:29:34 -0800

Davy: This link will let you patch the VLC player with the google code so that it will work.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:23:41 -0800

That move sucked.

By: kuatto

kuatto — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:30:54 -0800

That movie sucked.

By: kuatto

kuatto — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:31:50 -0800

Indeed, the move to post the movie sucked as well. Who would waste their time?

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:44:39 -0800

Speaking of the goo, they've just released personal search (incorporating search history). They are also releasing/endorsing google maps API for overlaying and embedding : "The Maps API is a free beta service, available for any web site that is free to consumers. Google retains the right to put advertising on the map in the future".

By: H. Roark

H. Roark — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:10:12 -0800

So this is the first time google has managed to crash my browser. (And probably the last time I install a goggle native executable). I seriously question their move back to thick-clients away from webapps.

By: MarvinTheCat

MarvinTheCat — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:24:16 -0800

birdherder: seconded.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:34:34 -0800

I've never seen Revolutions. Is it intentional that the first line of the movie is "I've got nothing"?

By: Plinko

Plinko — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:41:10 -0800

Pardon me, but sourbrew said "fullscreen". ... How does one achieve this?

By: davy

davy — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:41:49 -0800

Sourbrew: with gcc-3.4.2 and glibc-2.3.4 on Fedora Linux, how do I do that? The diff itself refers to things like "/cygdrive/d/vlc-rev10995/vlc-trunk/activex/plugin.cpp ", which are not in the tarball; "patch" gets confused, I tell it which file to patch (in this case I shoot for "activex/plugin.cpp"), then it rejects it as junk, and goes to the next one -- with the same result. I've taught myself how to patch linux kernel source, but this is beyond me.

By: banished

banished — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:51:08 -0800

Plinko, double-click the movie after it starts playing. For Google, it's not very intuitive.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:24:07 -0800

are there any hacks yet which would enable you to save the movie?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:00:52 -0800

I liked this movie.

By: craniac

craniac — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:02:31 -0800

It's a dollar rental now, isn't it? I wish google came out with a hack that let us painlessly mix and make movies. *That* would be cool. /tired of being a consumer

By: dios

dios — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:01:42 -0800

So, can someone quickly explain what's going on? Is google hosting this video as a result of someone uploading it through a system google provides, or are they finding it from the web somewhere and storing it themselves? posted by odinsdream at 7:40 PM PST on June 29 I'm wondering this, too. Can any of you computer pros explain to comptuer neanderthals like myself what is going on here? Is google archiving this stuff and letting us see it? Or is it a search of things already on the net, but then just routing them through google?

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:08:29 -0800

Useful Q&A from Senior Product Manager Google Video.

By: gen

gen — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:33:17 -0800

I'm running XP SP2 on a pretty fast AMD Duron and the newest Firefox and it ain't working for me. I get the first few seconds of audio/video and then it hangs.

By: gen

gen — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:33:53 -0800

Er, scratch that - it's an AthlonXP. 3200? Something decently fast nevertheless.

By: illovich

illovich — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:49:20 -0800

I think it's strange that there is never a mention about platforms other than windows in anything I can find from Google on this service. They do realize that there's more computer platforms than one, right?

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:20:06 -0800

Those Google guys are so smart! They get all sorts of publicity by releasing a full movie, and even better publicity by using the geek-popular Matrix name... but they pick a movie that sucked so horribly that no one will actually watch it, thus reducing their bandwidth requirements for this project to near-zero!

By: horseblind

horseblind — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:20:43 -0800

are you trying to tell me that there are computers that run an OS besides MS Windows? When did that happen? BTW this movie is teh suxor.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:25:10 -0800

Video Ouija