Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country

January 22, 2006 6:29 PM

A lot of people comment/bitch when a Google video is posted that "Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.", which I understand is fustrating.

Maybe users submitting Google video links should consider something suggested here. Looks like a neat and relatively simple fix.
posted by lemonfridge to etiquette/policy at 6:29 PM (19 comments total)

An even simpler fix would be to not submit Google video links, which, in addtion to avoiding the problem of playback not working, also avoids the problem of every Google video link FPP being really really crap.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 7:31 PM on January 22, 2006

Every?
posted by lemonfridge at 7:40 PM on January 22, 2006

Yes, Mr Shanks has viewed them all.
posted by mischief at 7:42 PM on January 22, 2006

I did it so you don't have to.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 7:50 PM on January 22, 2006

... and don't think that we aren't grateful.
posted by dg at 8:18 PM on January 22, 2006

Elegant solution.
posted by Falconetti at 9:23 PM on January 22, 2006

An even simpler fix would be to not submit Google video links, which, in addtion to avoiding the problem of playback not working, also avoids the problem of every Google video link FPP being really really crap.

I was hoping that someone'd say that so I didn't have to. Yay!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:46 PM on January 22, 2006

ah, stav & shanks, if only you two ran this place, it'd totally rock!! Also, I'd never come here, which would probably be just fine by you.
posted by jonson at 11:30 PM on January 22, 2006

Well, jonson, on review, I can find nothing you've posted that I can see in your history that interests me much, but I got no problem with you having posted it all.

You go, girl. You've carved yourself out a niche.

But my feelings about the profusion of Google Video links here lately? Meh, as the kids are saying these days. Pretty low-rent.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:23 AM on January 23, 2006

I like google links, and without them, I would leave and never ever ever come back... (for atleast 24 hours!)
posted by blue_beetle at 1:12 AM on January 23, 2006

Meh

Is being jaded and weary web2.0 ?
posted by srboisvert at 4:26 AM on January 23, 2006

If so, I'm all over that shit.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:32 AM on January 23, 2006

Yeah, jaded and weary I can do standing on my head. Anything involving the word perky is a problem, though.
posted by dg at 4:47 AM on January 23, 2006

I have a dream that our children will one day live in a MetaFilter where their FPPs will not be judged by the domains that they link to, but by the content of their.. er.. content.

Translation: I don't care if it's at Google Video, Geocities, ebaumsworld, or whatever the cool-site-to-hate-this-month is. As long as it's good.
posted by Plutor at 4:54 AM on January 23, 2006

I tend to agree with Plutor on this one.

(Except for ebaumsworld. That dude is a backstabbing content thief.)
posted by caution live frogs at 6:11 AM on January 23, 2006

Being the the last one to submit a Google video link, my apologies. For those of you who expressed your frustration here in MetaTalk rather than the thread, I appreciate that.

Re: the China thing - good to know and thanks for the heads up.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 6:48 AM on January 23, 2006

Google video link posts tend to suck, because more often than not they're just one link "OMG this video is hilarious!" posts.
posted by mkultra at 9:33 AM on January 23, 2006

Wait...I'm confused. Here I thought stavros liked the Google Video posts. Huh.
posted by graventy at 4:16 PM on January 23, 2006

Well, he does post in each and every one...
posted by mikeh at 3:53 PM on January 25, 2006