Just when did Google Video become Mac compatible?You can search for Videos, and watch them right on your browser now, as opposed to having to download + install an add-on VLC-based application/plugin for your browser.
I took a look at the source, and apparently the whole playback application is placed inside an embed tag as a .swf (x-shockwave-flash) animation file.
So basically you're watching a large on-demand flash animation rendered by google video engine. Pretty interesting hack, and smart as well. Flash is practically cross-platform, even more so than Java. With this one step google brings the whole Google Video platform to all the Mac geeks out there.I wonder though, if they used any of the VLC-player-based-code they used for Google Video for Windows Application.
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