Rippool: It is my opinion that Google Videos was not developed to
become an on-line repository for videos. I believe that it was built
for folks like me that take home movies about the things that my wife
and I are involved in, get them posted on the internet, then let our
out-of-state kids (and friends) know where they can find out what
we've been doing. Some folks use it to show off their video talents.
As an example, my Japanese wife is involved with Japanese Traditional
Dance, and her groups biggest event is to perform in Phoenix, AZ at
the festival "Matsuri - A Festival Of Japan" - here is her solo
performance & we let the daughter & grandkids in Virginia know about
it since they cannot travel to Arizona to see her perform:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22garry+koons%22&emb=0&aq=f#
Respectfully, Garry
On Dec 2, 8:21 am, rlppool wrote:
> The video archiving service that I was comparing Google Video to
> obviously was
http://www.archive.org/(not archive.com).
> Sorry about the typo.
> On Dec 1, 9:54 am, rlppool wrote:
> > At what resolution and in what format are uploaded videos actually
> > stored on the Google Video servers? Obviously, the streaming video
> > for online viewing is 320x240 Flash and the downloaded files are
> > supposed to be 480x360 MPEG4. (When I download files, I get 320x240
> > MPEG4.) Is this the highest resolution in which the videos are saved
> > and is the original uploaded format irretrievably lost?
> > What is Google’s intent in providing this video service? I assumed
> > that one of the principal reasons was to provide archiving of video
> > data, like archive.com, similar to what it is doing with printed
> > books. However, if the videos are only stored in the highly
> > compressed low resolution format, the value of the site is diminished.- Hide quoted text -
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