Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Not-so-Mobile YouTube - Doesn't Play Well with Windows Mobile
Posted by Paul Martin in "NEWS" @ 05:30 AM
"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.
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.
