From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Barton Subject: Re: Google Tech Talk Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:10 +0100 Message-ID: <48821FB6.2020908@manor-farm.org> References: <4880CE7B.6020600@yahoo.com> <48819B6F.20703@manor-farm.org> <77EA77CB-884A-40BC-9BBA-3A8C4E55EE44@uva.nl> <48820479.10806@manor-farm.org> <8763r1rj1i.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFw2-0004oQ-Tw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:09:30 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFw1-0004ns-Uw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:09:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43047 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKFw1-0004nm-Rb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:09:29 -0400 Received: from a2s22.a2hosting.com ([69.39.86.130]:58551) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKFw1-0005kn-E6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:09:29 -0400 Received: from [217.146.125.41] (helo=firewall.banter.local) by a2s22.a2hosting.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KKFvz-0007ix-Dr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:09:27 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firewall.banter.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E7D283A7 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from firewall.banter.local ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (firewall.banter.local [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ynEH6pohExbl for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.0.8] (unknown [192.168.0.8]) by firewall.banter.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBD928383 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:09:10 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <8763r1rj1i.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org It seems that only the videos hosted on http://video.google.com offer downloads. A bit of research with my Python example shows it hosted on several Google sites, but only video.google offers downloading. Ian. Bastien wrote: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> On Jul 19, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Ian Barton wrote: >> >>> OK, I can understand Google's reasons for not allowing downloading. I >>> presume that the video remains available indefinitely on YouTube. In >>> fact many Google Tech talk videos do eventually become available for >>> download from Google themselves. >> Really? Can you send me an example link? Then I could check with the >> Google people. > > Take Merlin Mann's talk, for example: > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925 > > On the top right frame, there is a link "Download - iPod/PSP". > Clicking on it let you download the talk in .mp4 format. > > Maybe they don't offer this service for newer talks because they are > slowly moving people from Google video to Youtube? Not sure though. >