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Releases patch lifting restrictions...
(old news - 09:14AM Wednesday Jun 29 2005)
tags: Video · software
As recently mentioned, Google released a new video player, though it refused to play any video not hosted on Google's Servers. Enter Apple's good friend "DVD Jon", who in less than 24 hours released a patch removing that restriction via his blog.

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statecop
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Beverly Hills, CA

Divx?

I will have to check that player AND patch out.
permalink · 2005-06-29 09:23:42 · Reply to this

pcscdma
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oh no!

We're going to see all the .NET haters come out.
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permalink · 2005-06-29 09:33:33 · Reply to this

MikeStammer
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Aurora, IL

Re: oh no!

said by pcscdma See Profile:

We're going to see all the .NET haters come out.
.NET rocks! it has its uses like everything else.
permalink · 2005-06-29 09:51:08 · Reply to this
bmn
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hiatus		 Well, considering that the Google video software only runs on Windows, they really don't have a leg to stand on, now do they ?
permalink · 2005-06-29 11:18:13 · Reply to this

MxxCon

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nothing special here

not taking away from his previous work, but
since google's plugin is based on VLC, he just took the source code, removed "+ const char* allowed_host = \"video.google.com\";" line and recompiled.
any monkey with a compiler can do it.
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permalink · 2005-06-29 09:49:00 · Reply to this
rmdir

join:2003-03-13
Chicago, IL

Re: nothing special here

Apparently the other monkeys never thought to try doing so.
permalink · 2005-06-29 09:54:38 · Reply to this

MxxCon

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Re: nothing special here

or just didn't get around to it yet
not everybody bothered to install that plugin yet to start hacking it apart
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permalink · 2005-06-29 10:14:01 · Reply to this

Wills

join:2001-01-03
Port Charlotte, FL

Re: nothing special here

Or they were to chickensh*t to put it out to the public. Either way you have to give this guy credit. His hacks work, they're almost always first, and he's not afraid of any repercussion.
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permalink · 2005-06-29 10:38:19 · Reply to this

MxxCon

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Re: nothing special here

said by Wills See Profile:

Or they were to chickensh*t to put it out to the public. Either way you have to give this guy credit. His hacks work, they're almost always first, and he's not afraid of any repercussion.
well considering that plugin is released under GPL »code.google.com/patches.html
nobody should be "checkenshit" to modify it.
nor can there possibly be any repercussions to his modifications since they are perfectly valid and legal under GPL license.
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permalink · 2005-06-29 10:46:00 · Print · Reply to this
Lysis

join:2005-03-30
Brooklyn, NY

Re: nothing special here

vlc has been the best video player i've had for the past year or so kudos to google for picking the best media player out there
permalink · 2005-06-29 13:14:39 · Reply to this

FLECOM
Bay Networks Freak
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Miami, FL		 isnt VLC open source?

so then shouldent google have to release their source for their player since they are using opensource stuff or am i an idiot?
permalink · 2005-06-29 14:00:01 · Reply to this

MxxCon

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Re: nothing special here

said by FLECOM See Profile:

isnt VLC open source?

so then shouldent google have to release their source for their player since they are using opensource stuff or am i an idiot?
can't say you are an idiot, but you do seem to be reading every other line;):p
in my last reply i posted url
»code.google.com/patches.html
i'm no programmer, but looking at the posted diff file, it seems like majority of changes were to remove all mime support but "application/x-google-vlc-plugin" and relabel it from "VideoLAN VLC Plugin" to "Google VideoLAN VLC Plugin"
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permalink · 2005-06-29 15:51:29 · Print · Reply to this

GlenQuagmire
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Grand Rapids, MI

WTF

Google must have taken all of the videos offline I cannot view anything
permalink · 2005-06-29 20:40:42 · Reply to this

Andrew J
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Lancaster, PA
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Re: WTF

I'm pretty good with video stuff. Did the .net, installed viewer, and hack. But I'm not able to play any of my own videos on either of the two boxes I tried.
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permalink · 2005-06-29 22:54:42 · Reply to this
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