p2pnet.net News:- Google’s new Video Viewer browser plugin is based on the open source VLC.

Except Google thoughtfully decided to make a minor change namely, says Jon Lech Johansen on his blog, this:

+ // Google mods
+ const char* allowed_host = “video.google.com”;
+ char * host_found = strstr(p_sys->url.psz_host, allowed_host);
+ if ((host_found == NULL) ||
+ ((host_found + strlen(allowed_host)) !=
+ (p_sys->url.psz_host + strlen(p_sys->url.psz_host)))) {
+ msg_Warn( p_access, “invalid host, only video.google.com is allowed” );
+ goto error;
+ }

The Google code stops you from playing videos not hosted on Google’s servers.

Or, rather, it used to.

“Download and run this patch I wrote to remove this restriction, he adds, pointing out that you’ll need .NET runtime,” says Johansen.

(Cheers, Lars)

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See:-
Video Viewer – Google scarfs up VLC, p2pnet, June 27, 2005
blog- Google Video Viewer, June 28, 2005

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