Google Video Now Supports Web-Uploads

It used to be that for your videos to be uploaded, stored, and possibly featured on Google Video, you would need to download a standalone video uploading client. So unlike other popular video-storage (and streaming) facilities such as YouTube, your only option for sharing that interesting (or maybe not) video of yours was to use that application. Google had also previously advised that they prefer the use of MPEG-2 and 4 video with MP3 audio.

Google recently announced that its Video service would now allow uploads via Web. This is seen to be a faster approach to video sharing, as the uploading is now integrated in the Web browser. Google Video would now also accept different formats, such as AVI, ASF, QuickTime, Windows Media and MPEG, which can be encoded in any of the following standards: H.264, H.263, MPEG 1/2/4 and motion JPEG. Of course Google reminds users that the better compression, the faster the videos can be uploaded. But for better quality, the highest possible quality file format should be used.

So what’s the one-step process of submitting videos? Just head on to the upload page, attach your video file, add some information, and then click “upload.”

Google Video also has a promo related to the latest Jennifer Aniston flick, The Breakup, which it features on the Google Video Blog–the site shares the daily countdown to the Breakup, of course, via snippets of the movie trailer released per day. Well, it’s not really a promo in that you get to win something, but if you upload your interesting (or funny) breakup or relationship videos, you might get the chance to be featured for the National Breakup Day special.