Review: Top 5 Internet videos

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by PCWorld.com Downloads Team

(IDG) -- 1. George Lucas in Love: A young George Lucas fights writer's block while trying to complete his final screenplay for USC Film School. This satire of "Shakespeare in Love" has Lucas searching for the true origins of the "Star Wars" saga. You'll see hilarious bits with his stoner roommate, his evil neighbor, and of course the lover who finally sparks his imagination.

2. 405 The Movie: A DC-10 plane lands on a Hollywood freeway. The Net video of the landing has won a number of awards for its creators, who made the film on a couple of PCs running Windows NT, working evenings and weekends. Watch the video that has caught the attention of over 3 million Internet viewers, as well as Hollywood studio executives.

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3. Alien Song: After circulating through e-mail for months, and being featured on CNN and in the London Times, this video clip has become an Internet classic. The video plays Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem "I Will Survive" as the theme for a three-fingered, one-eyed extraterrestrial named Blit Wizbot. The author of the program, Victor Navone, says he spent 250 hours to produce the program -- and his hard work didn't go to waste.

4. Div-X Codec: Use this to play videos that have been compressed using Div-X, a technology based on the MPEG-4 compression format. Div-X files are 15 percent smaller than they would be in standard DVD format, which enables them to be played over the Web. Because of their powerful compression technology, Div-X files have been called the "MP3 of the video world."

5. Indeo Video Drivers: Ramp up your video playback with Intel's latest drivers. The free drivers support Indeo video codecs 4 and 5, and others. They also support audio codec 2.5 (decode only) and plug-ins for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

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