Watch These Important Videos Before They're Gone!

[Walter Ego]

Google video will cease to exist on April 29 (not May 13 as I stated elsewhere). If you have videos on Google and have gmail you will have have been notified how to download (in flash format) any videos you may have previously uploaded.

I have saved my uploaded videos but there are a lot of good documentary and debunking videos produced by the major broadcast and cable networks I can't save because I didn't upload them myself. This is very bad news for my 9/11 video blog. Hopefully I can find You Tube multi-part alternate versions of most of the Google videos but some really good factual and dramatic stuff about 9/11 on video may be lost.

Some of these videos are duplicated on You Tube chopped into segments but the Google videos are full length. I'm posting some direct links below to some of the better items on Google for anyone who hasn't seen them or wants a chance to view them before they're gone.

PBS Nova: Why The Towers Fell, Air date: April 30, 2002. Link

World Trade Center: Anatomy Of The Collapse, The Learning Channel (2002) Link

WTC: The First 24 Hours, Independent documentary Link

Inside 9/11 (Episode 1: War on America), National Geographic. Link

Inside 9/11 (Episode 2: Zero Hour), National Geographic. Link

History Channel: 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction Link

BBC: The Conspiracy Files 911, Link

BBC: Conspiracy Files 9/11 -The Third Tower, Link

Note: There are some other good debunking and conspiracy videos on Google not related to 9/11 (including the Jon Ronson programs for Channel 4) I'll be posting on the CT forum. In the meantime, you can find those links here.)

 

[ElMondoHummus]

Damn. I'd hope that the original posters - looks to be all corporate media orgs - reposts them somewhere. I'd hate for them to no longer be easily accessible on the 'net.

 

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Is there a way to save google videos to disk for later replay?

 

[ElMondoHummus]

Is there a way to save google videos to disk for later replay?

That'd have to be done by the original uploaders themselves. Who, again, are already media companies.

I'm willing to bet that they're considering selling those exact videos rather than just reposting them anywhere . But I'm willing to be proven wrong.

I guess someone can capture them and then save. But I'd hate to think of how poor a video capture of a Google vid would be.

Here's to hoping that Nat Geo, BBC, and all the other groups who posted those videos make them available elsewhere.

 

[carlitos]

Is there a way to save google videos to disk for later replay?

You can get a firefox plugin that will save them as .FLV files, but the quality is only as good as the stream you're watching. I used to use this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

No idea or comment as to copyright implications.

 

[quixotecoyote]

Damn. I'd hope that the original posters - looks to be all corporate media orgs - reposts them somewhere. I'd hate for them to no longer be easily accessible on the 'net.

If they're at all interested in maintaining the content, it's easy to do so. Google put in a button that transfers a video over to youtube.

 

[MikeW]

Also, if anyone wants to capture a local copy of the video for their own use, it's not that difficult, you just need the right software.

On Windows, for instance, install http://www.orbitdownloader.com , and run the program.

Right-click the Orbit system tray icon and select Grab++.

Use IE or Firefox to view the video of interest, in the highest resolution you can.

Once it's playing, switch to the Grab++ window and you should see a link for the FLV file. Check the box next to it, click Download, specify a name and folder for the file and Orbit will grab a copy for you.

When it's finished you'll then have an FLV version of the video that you can play whenever you like. Assuming your system understands the format, anyway - if not, download something that does, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is about as good as it gets.

 

[Walter Ego]

If they're at all interested in maintaining the content, it's easy to do so. Google put in a button that transfers a video over to youtube.

Yeah, but most You Tube users are limited to 15 minutes running time per upload. Most of the videos in the OP are 50 plus minutes or longer.

 

[A W Smith]

realplayer plus will save them even if they aren't yours,
http://www.real.com/realplayer/features

http://www.real.com/realplayer/download-video

 

[JAStewart]

I would also recommend Orbit Downloader's Grab++

 

[kookbreaker]

Are Gravy's movies and Abby Scott's 9/11 Conspriacy Wars on youtube? Because they used to be on Google Video only.

 

[A W Smith]

just got a notification from Google today, seems they had a change of heart, they will not be deleting videos Google offers instructions on how to migrate them to youtube,

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/110423-054119

"Google Video users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content and we are eliminating the April 29 deadline. We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos to YouTube. In the meantime, your videos hosted on Google Video will remain accessible on the web and existing links to Google Videos will remain accessible," the email stated.
The email went on to explain:
"We've created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option on the Google Video status page. To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account (you can create one here). Before doing this you should read YouTube's Terms of Use and Copyright Policies. If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function."

 

[Walter Ego]

just got a notification from Google today, seems they had a change of heart, they will not be deleting videos Google offers instructions on how to migrate them to youtube,

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/110423-054119

I got that notification today from Google. The bolded part is somewhat ambiguous.

Google Video users can rest assured that they won't be losing any of their content and we are eliminating the April 29 deadline. We will be working to automatically migrate your Google Videos to YouTube. In the meantime, your videos hosted on Google Video will remain accessible on the web and existing links to Google Videos will remain accessible.

I'm not sure if this means the videos in the OP (which are not my content) will be available after April 29 as embeddable videos or that only the url links will remain. We'll find out in less than a week.

We've created an "Upload Videos to YouTube" option on the Google Video status page. To do this, you'll need to have a YouTube account associated with your Google Video account... If you choose this option, we'll do our best to ensure your existing Google Video links continue to function.

It would seem that the content holders must migrate the videos to You Tube or they will be gone after the 29th. Lots of people uploaded video to Google and more or less ignored the accounts after a while (I know I did). If they don't have gmail or don't use or monitor the email account they registered on Google they may not have received the notification or be aware of the impending deletions.

 

[George 152]

Also, if anyone wants to capture a local copy of the video for their own use, it's not that difficult, you just need the right software.

On Windows, for instance, install http://www.orbitdownloader.com , and run the program.

Right-click the Orbit system tray icon and select Grab++.

Use IE or Firefox to view the video of interest, in the highest resolution you can.

Once it's playing, switch to the Grab++ window and you should see a link for the FLV file. Check the box next to it, click Download, specify a name and folder for the file and Orbit will grab a copy for you.

When it's finished you'll then have an FLV version of the video that you can play whenever you like. Assuming your system understands the format, anyway - if not, download something that does, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is about as good as it gets.

Thanks.

 

[Walter Ego]

Yeah, but most You Tube users are limited to 15 minutes running time per upload. Most of the videos in the OP are 50 plus minutes or longer.

I was mistaken here. Google is allowing transfers to You Tube for videos of any length as a single file and the process is completely painless. If you have any video content still on Google get over there and start saving your vids to You Tube!

(The Orbit downloader is free and works very well too.)