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Google has released Google Video Viewer, a browser plugin based on VLC. Here’s one of the features they’ve added:

+ // Google mods
+ const char* allowed_host = \'video.google.com\';
+ char * host_found = strstr(p_sys->url.psz_host, allowed_host);
+ if ((host_found == NULL) ||
+ ((host_found + strlen(allowed_host)) !=
+ (p_sys->url.psz_host + strlen(p_sys->url.psz_host)))) {
+ msg_Warn( p_access, \'invalid host, only video.google.com is allowed\' );
+ goto error;
+ }

This “feature” prevents you from playing videos that are not hosted on Google’s servers. Download and run this patch I wrote to remove this restriction. Running the patch requires a .NET runtime."

source: http://nanocrew.net/?p=114