It seems that only the videos hosted on http://video.google.com offer
downloads.

A bit of research with my Python example shows it hosted on several
Google sites, but only video.google offers downloading.

Ian.

Bastien wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> On Jul 19, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Ian Barton wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I can understand Google's reasons for not allowing downloading. I
>>> presume that the video remains available indefinitely on YouTube. In
>>> fact many Google Tech talk videos do eventually become available for
>>> download from Google themselves.
>> Really?  Can you send me an example link?  Then I could check with the
>> Google people.
> 
> Take Merlin Mann's talk, for example:
> 
>   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925
> 
> On the top right frame, there is a link "Download - iPod/PSP".  
> Clicking on it let you download the talk in .mp4 format.
> 
> Maybe they don't offer this service for newer talks because they are
> slowly moving people from Google video to Youtube?  Not sure though.
> 



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