Google Video Format

What is Google video format?

What is Google video format? Google video format is supported by Google Video. Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video search engine from Google. Google Video allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Video without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. Some Google video file formats videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.

Google video format GVI and conversion

Google Video Files (.gvi), and latterly its .avi files, are modified Audio Video Interleave (.avi) files that have an extra list containing the FourCC goog immediately following the header. The list can be removed with a hex editor to avoid playback issues with various video players. The video is encoded in MPEG-4 ASP alongside an MP3 audio stream. MPEG-4 video players can render Google video format .gvi Google Video Files without format conversion (after changing the extension from .gvi to .avi, although this method of just renaming the file extension does not work with videos purchased with DRM to inhibit unauthorized copying. Among other software VirtualDub is able to read .gvi files and allows the user to convert them into different formats of choice. There are also privately developed software solutions, such as OJOsoft Total Video Converter, that can also convert from or to Google video format by choosing AVI profile Video for Google Video.

Google video format AVI and MP4

Besides Google video file formats GVI and Flash Video, Google provided its content through downloadable Audio Video Interleave (.avi) and MPEG-4 (.mp4) video files. Not all formats are available through the website's interface, however, depending on the user's operating system. Where available, Google's save as function for Windows/Mac produced an .avi file, while the save as function for iPod and PSP produced an .mp4 file. The .avi file is not in standard AVI format.

An .mp4 file will play in Winamp if an MPEG-4/H.264 DirectShow Filter such as ffdshow and an MP4 Splitter such as Haali are installed, and the extension .MP4 is added to the Extension List in the Winamp DirectShow decoder configuration. As of Spring 2008, the option to download files in .AVI format has been removed, and files are only available as Flash video or Google video format .MP4, while the same videos when accessed through the companion YouTube.com site are available only in Flash video format.

Google video format - Related conversion shareware

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