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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

How to watch Google Videos outside US

If you try watching any Video from the Google Video site from some countries like India & Pakistan,china , HK etc......, you will get the following message:
"Thanks for your interest in Google Video. "

Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.

But there is a trick to watch the video..............

Trick: How to watch Google Videos outside US
1. Make sure you have installed the Macromedia Flash player plugin in your browser. If you are on Firefox, turn off Adblock that sometimes block SWF animations.
2. Open video.google.com and search for the video you want to play.
3. Once you locate the video, click on the video thumbnail to play the video. Since playback is not supported in your country, Google shows you an error message. Ignore that warning and click on the "Put on Site" link
4. You will see a text box just beneath the "Put on Site" link containing some cryptic HTML. Don't get frightened, copy the HTML code by clicking inside the text area and press Ctrl+C. Then open notepad or any text editor and paste the HTML.
5. Open the Find dialog (Ctrl+F) and type http://video.googleAs you click find, you will see a really long URL starting with the above text. Select and copy the entire URL (select everything that's enclosed in double quotes starting with http://video.googl... and ending with playerMode=embedded)
6. Just paste this URL in your browser address and press enter. The video is now playing inside your browser just as a visitor in US would see it!!!

You can also change the the Video dimensions by clicking on the bottom right corner of the Google Video player

P.S.Actually you can select the long url from the text box in the site itself (i.e. without copy pasting in notepad etc), but since the box is small, and its not searchable, its tricky business.

But once you get a hang of it, you will save time.

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