Viewing flash videos on a Jailbroken iPod or iPhone?

MikeHunt79 · 9 Apr 2011 at 01:21

Is this actually possible?

I'm new to Jailbreaking and have heard a few people say that once you jailbreak your device you can then view flash content, if so how exactly do you do it?

I've not managed to get Cydia on my iPod, but I'm totally clueless as to what you need to install to view flash videos... Is it just a case of having the right apps installed?

Thanks.

-|ScottFree|- · 9 Apr 2011 at 06:09

Use Youtube mate.. everything you need to know is either in the video's or written in the comments.

GSXRMovistar · 9 Apr 2011 at 09:12

Try iSwifter, it not great but will let you view flash.

Ben Cole · 9 Apr 2011 at 09:23

I'm not sure how jailbreaking makes any difference but installing Skyfire browser will let you watch the flash videos on a page (like the BBC Sport pages for example).

MikeHunt79 · 10 Apr 2011 at 02:21

-|ScottFree|- said:
Use Youtube mate.. everything you need to know is either in the video's or written in the comments.

Cheers, I'll have a look on there. In fact I did find youtube pretty helpful when JB'ing my iPod so hopefully there will be something on there.

GSXRMovistar said:
Try iSwifter, it not great but will let you view flash.

This seems to only be for the iPad, unfortunately I'm using an iPod...

Ben Cole said:
I'm not sure how jailbreaking makes any difference but installing Skyfire browser will let you watch the flash videos on a page (like the BBC Sport pages for example).

Thanks, Skyfire looks good, I'll see if it works.

FWIW, I only mentioned JB'ing due to the endless Android vs iOs threads on here seem to make a big deal out of Flash... I've seen numerous posts claiming that if you JB your iOs device then you can play back flash content.

cheef · 10 Apr 2011 at 06:59

Ben Cole said:
I'm not sure how jailbreaking makes any difference but installing Skyfire browser will let you watch the flash videos on a page (like the BBC Sport pages for example).

This doesn't work for me on the iPad version. It can't find the videos at all on the BBC sport pages.

Jimmy1983 · 10 Apr 2011 at 13:54

Frash, Cydia

Ben Cole · 10 Apr 2011 at 14:19

cheef said:
This doesn't work for me on the iPad version. It can't find the videos at all on the BBC sport pages.

Works for me on both the iphone and ipad. Strange.

cheef · 10 Apr 2011 at 14:24

Ben Cole said:
Works for me on both the iphone and ipad. Strange.

Any particular settings or things to consider to get it working? I press the analyse button, and it just returns "no videos found".

MikeHunt79 · 10 Apr 2011 at 16:08

Jimmy1983 said:
Frash, Cydia

Thanks, this looks like the way forward, going to try this today once I get home.

Ben Cole · 10 Apr 2011 at 21:12

cheef said:
Any particular settings or things to consider to get it working? I press the analyse button, and it just returns "no videos found".

Didn't do anything...it just seemed to work.

feriso · 11 Apr 2011 at 11:31

Doesn't skyfire go through US servers so you won;t see any BBC content? (or at least you won't see the UK only stuff)

Morfik · 11 Apr 2011 at 13:19

Jimmy1983 said:
Frash, Cydia

How is Frash these days? Does it get updated much?

lemoon · 14 Apr 2011 at 04:33

Morfik said:
How is Frash these days? Does it get updated much?

You mean this one?
http://www.ifunia.com/news/install-flash-on-iphone-4-using-frash/