06-20-2007, 01:30 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Not-so-Mobile YouTube - Doesn't Play Well with Windows Mobile
"This is tested and working on Treo 700p phones. We don't have it working on Windows Mobile devices yet as we have not yet found a 3GP player which supports RTSP (alas, CorePlayer won't work). I believe this will work on Nokia smart phones, but it's as of yet untested since we don't have a Nokia phone to try it on. If anyone can give us some help there it would be appreciated."
Graphic from solsie.com
YouTube mobile has soft launched using the address http://m.youtube.com. Since it streams 3GP files using the RTSP protocol, it doesn't yet support Windows Mobile devices. The above linked post to Technology Evangelist shows a list of currently supported devices. The site is nice and clean but you just can't watch the videos...yet. I tried using the similar TCPMP player and received an error message that the RTSP protocol was not supported. If you're wondering what it looks like after a successful launch, check out this video posted on Gizmodo. If you find a way to play the stream, please post it! Until then, it looks like downloading the Flash ".flv" file is our only option.
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06-20-2007, 01:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Works perfectly on my HTC TyTN on WM6. HTC includes an app called "streaming media" made to play RealPlayer crap, but it plays the youtube content just fine.
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06-20-2007, 02:06 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Yep, all the latest HTC devices which includes the "Streaming Media" player application can stream .3GP files fine (3GP isn't Real but an MPEG4 standard of its own).
I have a video here where I playback YouTube mobile on a HTC Touch: http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3930
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06-20-2007, 02:22 PM
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isn't Adobe/Macromedia supposed to release a new version of flash player lite this summer with FLV support?
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06-20-2007, 03:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I have HTC advantage with streaming media player, but when I use IE to open you tube site video, I get an error message that either java script is not enabed or I do not have flash player.
I try to copy the URL ( I am not sure as there is no 'rtsp' in the link) in to streaming player, I get can not connect. may be I am doing something wrong. let me know, how I can play them using streaming player.
Thanks
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06-20-2007, 03:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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As we still can not find the way to stream YouTube video (http://m.youtube.com) directly to WM device (without HCT Media Streaming Player). Therefore you can only manually download YouTube videos using http://keepvid.com to .flv format then playback with TCPMP.
However the best way to catch the latest obviously would be using RSS feeds.
YouTube offers several RSS feeds for categorized groups of videos (such as recently uploaded, top viewed etc) as well as customized feeds for users and tags.
I posted an article to explain how to aggregate and playback YouTube videos on WM device with RSS here:
http://solsie.com/how-to-aggregate-y...-on-wm-device/
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06-20-2007, 03:25 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I think I was using www.youtube.com instead of m.youtube.com and secondly, connecting to internet through activesync did not allow streaming player to find the network but through wifi I was able to watch videos.
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06-20-2007, 03:32 PM
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by murph
isn't Adobe/Macromedia supposed to release a new version of flash player lite this summer with FLV support?
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Adobe announced work on a Flash Lite 3 player w while ago. It's supposed to support video. It was never clear to me if that meant it actually would support YouTube, but it **should**.
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06-20-2007, 03:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by ScottC
Works perfectly on my HTC TyTN on WM6. HTC includes an app called "streaming media" made to play RealPlayer crap, but it plays the youtube content just fine.
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Works fine on my Nokia E62 - well... the first video I tried (Plane Landing -- EEK) was fine, but the second one crashed the phone - twice!! - while loading in Real Player. Then I gave up.
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06-20-2007, 05:01 PM
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