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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Picasa Web Albums adds videos

As if there hadn't been enough news this week concerning Google and videos, I noticed that the Picasa Web Albums' new features page notes:

Upload videos (only for those who've upgraded to 6GB of storage)

Do any American readers who have upgraded have an example of this they can share? The second class citizens in the rest of the world are stuck with just 250MB, and now they lose out on a video feature as well :-(

I've had a quick look through a number of Picasa team members albums, wondering if any of them had been testing out the feature with their own account, but not spotted anything yet.

Update: Many thanks to haochi in the comments who has provided an example uploaded video. Not surprisingly, the appearance within Picasa Web Albums is of an embedded Google Video player.  The album view shows the thumbnail with a video still, incorporating the same marker icon as Picasa on the desktop uses to mark videos.

The pages still have the same options as for photos: Share video, slideshow, and download. The slideshow plays the video effectively full screen, the share button sends out an email (with fortunately just a thumbnail and a link back to the Album, not the whole video!), and the download button starts Picasa on the desktop, which gives a popup "This album only contains videos. Videos cannot be downloaded at the present time."

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4 Comments:

At Thu Oct 12, 10:20:00 PM BST, Anonymous haochi said...

Here you go. :D
http://picasaweb.google.com/Page.Error/VideoUploadTest/photo#4985114988657115154

 
At Thu Oct 12, 10:23:00 PM BST, Blogger Hoek said...

Funny how they can buy YouTube, where anyone can post any video for free, but you have to pay them to do it with Picasa...

 
At Fri Oct 13, 12:04:00 AM BST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can upload videos for free to Google Video as well, and take advantage of the recently added unlisted address just like Web Albums now uses.

Perhaps the limit to paid accounts will be temporary?

Tony

 
At Fri Oct 13, 03:37:00 AM BST, Anonymous Joe Siegler said...

Here's another update to the video upload through Picasa. You can't upload a single video file over 100Mb. Picasa will not upload anything that large, with the following error dialog box:

"Videos over 100MB cannot be uploaded at this time. These videos will not be uploaded."

I have a few videos that are a couple hundred megs large that I wanted to get up. Oh well, not this way. :)

 

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