What's the deal with Google video?
August 24, 2005 7:37 AM Subscribe
What's the deal with the Google Video interface? More specifically, how can I grab frames from videos that aren't playable, like this funky site does?
I'm curious to know how Google's "ThumbnailServer" works. The url makes it look easy:
http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer?
chan=KNTV
&year=2005
&month=5
&day=13
&hour=14
&minute=13
&second=0
&millisecond=0
&itag=qvga
&urlcreated=1124893747
&sigh=r3JnJpAEO_K_rVPg2pLmJ4kyEDU
Change parameters such as chan, year, month, day etc. to get different frames of video, right? Except when I do that, I get a "Bad Request" error. I've checked the docs but no mention of this. I didn't find anything in the Google Labs Discussion Group either. Is there a hacker in the house? ;-)
I'm curious to know how Google's "ThumbnailServer" works. The url makes it look easy:
http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer?
chan=KNTV
&year=2005
&month=5
&day=13
&hour=14
&minute=13
&second=0
&millisecond=0
&itag=qvga
&urlcreated=1124893747
&sigh=r3JnJpAEO_K_rVPg2pLmJ4kyEDU
Change parameters such as chan, year, month, day etc. to get different frames of video, right? Except when I do that, I get a "Bad Request" error. I've checked the docs but no mention of this. I didn't find anything in the Google Labs Discussion Group either. Is there a hacker in the house? ;-)
Response by poster: Hmm...interesting...I had read of the pagerank checksum being cracked, but I presume this is something different, and if they've hashed it then they really don't want it to be broken?
posted by tommyc at 8:46 AM on August 24, 2005
posted by tommyc at 8:46 AM on August 24, 2005
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posted by Rhomboid at 8:33 AM on August 24, 2005