[vlc] Re: google using VLC based player?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Did someone ported back the google patch to our trunk?
Grtz,
Jean-Paul Saman

Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

>Le Lundi 27 Juin 2005 15:58, Cian Cullinan a écrit :
>  
>
>>Any of the developers care to comment on this story in Slashdot
>>today? http://battellemedia.com/archives/001658.php
>>Apparently Google are launching some kind of video archiving service
>>and plan "an in-browser video playback feature based on the open
>>source VLC media player."  Anyone know anything more about this,
>>especially details about the player?
>>    
>>
>
>Well, you can download it from their website (as well as the diff to 
>their modification). Surprisingly, it's based on our very recent 0.8.2 
>release. Well... not so surprisingly given it's the first version with 
>the ActiveX plugin for IE. I don't know if they were waiting for us to 
>release or if they'd have used a -test release otherwise.
>
>I've had a quick look at the -pretty small- diff 
>( http://code.google.com/vlc-diff.txt ). As far as I could see, it 
>consists of :
>- putting Google's name every now and then,
>- fixing one or two bugs in the Mozilla and IE plugins,
>- locking our HTTP module so that it will only connect to
>  video.google.com,
>- heavily customizing the installer script (actually, most of the 
>patch).
>
>There's definitely no DRM stuff, or it's not in their diff. In other 
>words, I suppose the official non-Google VLC should be able to access 
>Google Video with no modifications (unless they check the User-Agent).
>
>Besides, they've disabled most features, so that the whole binary 
>installer fits in 1 Mo. Admittedly, our own binaries are getting a bit 
>too fat, by the way :) I've not checked, but I suppose they've removed 
>all streaming/recording capabilities as well.
>
>  
>

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