Written by weiganla on Friday, March 7, 2008

YouTube Finally Goes Mobile! Sort Of.


capture_20080307_153137 Remember when the iPhone first came out and it was so awesome that you could play YouTube videos on it? Without going through the simple 38-step process of installing programs, configuring video options, and hacking the snot out of the registry? Well, the approximately half of the JAMM staff that uses an iPhone hasn’t let the other half of us forget it.

Finally, it looks like YouTube has gotten off its collective rear to let the rest of the world watch totally random viral videos on mobile devices as is our constituticapture_20080307_153232onal right. YouTube Mobile has been around for a while, but until recently it was a pathetic cutdown of the full site. Now, m.youtube.com acts pretty much just like the real thing.

There’s only one drawback. When I tried to actually play videos from YouTube Mobile on my Axim, it didn’t work. Most of the commenters on the original article at WMExperts haven’t had any luck either. Between this foulup and the release of the iPhone SDK, I’m starting to wonder if this may be the beginning of the end for Windows Mobile.

via WMExperts

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Peter
Mar 8, 2008

When I first heard about this, weeks ago, I went Yahoo, 46 Billion times and had the same disappointment. haven’t gone back to it since, but I should try it with different browsers, PIE is the problem I think!!!!! :(


Menneisyys
Mar 9, 2008

There are two reasons for it not wo work:

1, RTSP problems (you don’t have a direct connection or auto port forwarding)

2, you don’t have an RTSP + MPEG4 client like HTC’s Streaming Media or verison 1.2 of CorePlayer.

See my related tutorial at http://tinyurl.com/2gpzj7


PatrickJ
Mar 9, 2008

Hi Werner. I know you had a recent question about approving friends’ comments automatically. I don’t currently know a way in WordPress to do that, as we have a comment spam filter setting that keeps all comment containing URLs in moderation.
Anyway, got to this one quickly and even TinyURLed your link for you so it fits a bit better on the page.
Cheers …


weiganla
Mar 9, 2008

Werner, thanks for the tips and the link to your very nice tutorial. Unfortunately, they kind of prove my point. Why is it so hard to make something that just works? I’m not asking for a technical answer — I have a vague idea of the difficulties and understand that they’re pretty big. I’m just a frustrated consumer wondering why doing so many of the things I’d like to do practically requires pulling teeth.

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