Between negotiations with the majors, teams develop new YouTube features. Some of the content offered on the platform to share videos from Google are now available to download for later offline. YouTube joins the growing list of online services available from Google ... offline.
The possibility to involve in its videos a Creative Commons license authorizing the dissemination of creations under certain circumstances, and offer them for download, made its appearance are still reserved for certain partners picked. These functions are offered by the challenger Vimeo for several months. The downloaded videos are distributed by YouTube to MP4 format (H.264 video and AAC audio) without digital lock (DRM).
A function to market the videos for an amount that determines the seller is also being tested, but the shares held by Google have been specified. But certainly it is the latter in a new way to monetize their service so far unprofitable. The sale goes through the centralized payment service Google Checkout, PayPal equivalent. Asked about unofficial software that allow long to retrieve the content from YouTube, a representative of the Internet giant is content to argue that downloading a video other than through the dedicated function is a violation of the terms of service . Download video on YouTube However, it says that Google engineers are actively working on a solution, an effort that has so far shown no avail for most streaming services.
Available from France but for now only in English, this feature is accessible through a link on this video Download videos from some major U.S. universities such as Stanford or the UCLA. A trick proposed by the developers of Google itself yet provides download MP4 format almost any YouTube video, and since April 2008, not counting the many unofficial programs that offer this possibility.
YouTube takes a step ahead of its competitor Dailymotion. Both offer roughly the same features, namely high definition videos, features captioning.
13-02-2009
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