Baidu Video

trevelyan
 April 29, 2007, 10:27 PM posted in General Discussion

Looks like Baidu has figured out it's less of a search engine than a content aggregator. I wonder how much of the content they're hosting is pirated:

http://v.baidu.com

Only works in IE and you need to install extra software. Would love to get it working with a video iPod. I think I could throw out my television. Seems they want you to view the video through the browser too, which somewhat defeats the point of downloading it in the first place.

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trevelyan
 April 29, 2007, 10:47 PM

Whoa! Sustained download speeds of 230kbps. Restrictive DRM on the final files though - can't transfer them to the iPod.

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kencarroll
 April 30, 2007, 12:47 AM

Is there English stuff on there, too? Movies? I know you got a new video iPod, but can you really watch this stuff on such a small screen?

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trevelyan
 April 30, 2007, 09:06 AM

Seem to be a few MTV videos as well as some Korean movies. Tried loading a few Chinese music videos onto the iPod, but they were using DRM which prevented it. Maybe there's some software out there that will work around it.....