W0MBAT  James, this free program is a companion to the http://video.google.com website.

The website sells videos in a special format, this program plays them back. There has been a Windows version available for a few months, but this is the first release of the Mac version.

It's not based on VLC, and is not designed to play any video format other than gvi/gvp, which is what video.google.com uses.   
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W0MBAT  One last thing. We use Flash on the website, but the downloaded format isn't Flash video, it's actually based on MPEG-4.   
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W0MBAT  Yes we made a new format. It's cool though. The quality is nice, it supports buy or rent, it works on Mac and Windows. And the player is free.   
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W0MBAT  It's working just how it's supposed to.

The Google Video Player's job is to play files downloaded from http://video.google.com, particularly the premium content that you actually pay for, and can't just watch in the web page.

The search function steers you to the website, because that's where you can find shows to buy and download.   
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