"Very often, I get people asking me if there is a way to play flash files on a Pocket PC [...] The good news is that this is now possible if you use TCPMP. A new plugin is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196939. That will let you download Youtube video directly to your PPC and play the flash file without conversion."
Playing flash video content on Windows Mobile has always been an iffy proposition - the format used by YouTube and other video sharing sites was just not supported...until now. I've tried out the plugin from the link above, and it really does work (I tried the video of Judie's HTC Advantage unboxing). A couple of caveats though - this is a 0.1 release, so try at your own risk; and it requires TCPMP. Installation is simple enough, just put the two *.plg files in your TCPMP folder and start TCPMP. You can either use the included downloader for direct downloads of videos to your device, or just transfer any *.flv files that you've already downloaded to your computer to your WM device. Enuff Said - try it!
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I'm an idiot, but I haven't ever used TCPMP. I've downloaded it, installed it, and transferred the files to the TCPMP file in Program files. Do I just use the internet explorer and access YouTube to watch the videos? It's not working to do it that way - how do I watch flash-based online video content with TCPMP? Thanks!
Along with the .flv plug ins, there was a little .exe file for downloading youtube files. That can be put in the program folder as well (or anywhere else I suppose). Use PIE to browse youtube.com, find the video you want and copy its url. Paste this link into little .exe application and download it to a folder.
Then open TCPMP, hit file open, find the .flv file you downloaded and click on it. It seems to work well. Hope this helps.
Just got RC1 of TCPMP 0.81, and it's great. I'd given up on TCPMP last year, when development seemed stopped for a long while and the commercial application CORE was released. I've been using CORE since... but looking at some YouTube videos today in 0.81 and using YouTubeDownloader, I've now uninstalled CORE. No need for it any more. While not so point-and-click easy as watching YouTube stuff on a PC, this is still pretty dead simple to use. And it's great being able to save the ones I like without any extra steps, such as I use on the PC - the VideoDownloader plugin for Firefox is okay, but a bit fussier to use. Developments like this make me glad I donated some bucks to Gabor back a while. Might just have to paypal him some more.
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I found it via Google, actually, and by accident. I wasn't looking for TCPMP at all, but doing a search for a YouTube discussion on Slashdot from a few days ago, about the Heinz ketchup ad campaign. Couldn't remember where I'd seen the story actually, so rather than search a bunch of sites I googled... and came up with both that on Slashdot and a link to the plugin for TCPMP on a 'warez' site - though it's a free download from SourceForge. The tangled web of the Web is indeed strange. From there, I found a link to a gsmhacks discussion - apparently another warez site/forum - which provided a link to Release Candidate 0.81 of TCPMP.... but only for members... so I had to join GSMHacks.com in order to download it. As TCPMP was freeware/donateware, and as I'd donated $15 a while ago, it seemed not out of order to grab this one.
If anyone can find a little less icky way to go about downloading the latest TCPMP, great, I'll be glad to know it and share it. Unfortunately it seems not wise to start linking from PocketPCThoughts to GSMHacks threads directly - probably a violation of the Thoughts EULA, though I welcome a moderator's opinion. Anyway, that's probably enough info to get you going.
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