{"id":3266,"date":"2005-04-13T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/13\/google-video-pc-only-for-now\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:02:15","slug":"google-video-pc-only-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/13\/google-video-pc-only-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Video PC only (for now?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This really shouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googleblog\/2005\/04\/google-wants-your-video.html\" title=\"Google Blog: Google Wants Your Video\">just-announced<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/upload.video.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Video (Beta)\">1<\/a> has continued their tradition of being <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/gmail_and_safar.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Gmail and Safari\">Mac-unfriendly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eportal.com\/2005\/02\/google-maps.html\" title=\"ePortal.com: Google Maps\">at launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/04\/graphics\/googlevideo-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/04\/graphics\/googlevideo-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"267\" width=\"490\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"Google Video Uploader Installer.exe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, they don&#8217;t even provide a backup web-upload option &#8212; just the Windows-only uploader application. Pity, that, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourmedia.org\/\" title=\"Ourmedia\">Ourmedia.org<\/a> seems to be going through some growing pains (I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourmedia.org\/node\/5548\" title=\"Ourmedia: First Christian Church demolition, Seattle, WA (low quality)\">uploaded a video<\/a> three days ago, and it&#8217;s yet to actually appear in a useable form on the site), and I&#8217;m looking forward to being able to host some of my more bandwidth-intensive experiments on servers more powerful than mine.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll hope that this is just a temporary thing, and as with <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.google.com\/\" title=\"Gmail\">Gmail<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" title=\"Google Maps\">Google Maps<\/a>, Safari\/Mac OS X support will come along before too long. In the meantime, though, I&#8217;ll just have to keep poking along as I have been until now.<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> As of May 18th, they <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/video-uploader-for-rest-of-us.html\" title=\"Google Blog: A Video Uploader for the Rest of Us\">now support Mac (and *nix) uploading<\/a> thanks to a Java-based uploader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Blister in the Sun%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Blister in the Sun' on the iTMS\">Blister in the Sun<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DViolent Femmes%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Violent Femmes on the iTMS\">Violent Femmes<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Violent Femmes%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Violent Femmes on the iTMS\">Violent Femmes<\/a><\/em> (1982, 2:24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really shouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but Google&#8217;s just-announced video hosting service has continued their tradition of being Mac-unfriendly at launch. (UPDATE: A Mac uploader is available as of 5\/18\/05.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}