Youtube (non mobile version) on Symbian (S60)

Christo · 13 Dec 2007 at 13:13

Samir, the guy who made rotateme and Nokmote has made yet another application. A Youtube application, that allows you to watch flash ie standard Youtube videos (not the cut down mobile version).

Its in beta (very beta!) but I am sure will be developed fairly quickly, like he did with the other apps. (Lets hope you will be able to log in to your youtube account one day.)

http://www.bysamir.fr/ytplayer/

PS Its unlikely Nokia will release updated firmware, allowing full flash internet browsing support on the N95 8Gb or N82 (the latest S60 phones) so this application might be the closest we get to youtube on Symbian.

EDIT - This: http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl/ is much better - love it, proper youtube videos.

Peter Diffey · 14 Dec 2007 at 00:18

"Flash Version 8 Not Supported"

Christo · 14 Dec 2007 at 01:37

Install the flash player, restart the phone, then move the samir youtube app file into the directory called 'others' (on the phone, not the 'memory card'). Then you just open the flash app (the flash 3.0 app) and you can use samirs programme in there. (I had to work that out, as I had the same problem as you!)

Doohickey · 14 Dec 2007 at 04:16

Will check this out later, but quick question, does this stream the videos? Or like some other 'youtube players' does it download the .flv file and subsequently decode and play it back?

Christo · 14 Dec 2007 at 10:20

Doohickey said:
Will check this out later, but quick question, does this stream the videos? Or like some other 'youtube players' does it download the .flv file and subsequently decode and play it back?

It streams the videos. It cant do this because flash lite 3 supports full flash.

A warning, its very basic indeed, almost a proof of concept, but like I said it will be updated quickly.

PyroboyUK · 15 Dec 2007 at 13:29

Cant seem to get this to work. Tried it the other day, but now tried your way of putting it in the others folder.

everytime i load it it just says unable to load data everytime!

El Gringo · 17 Dec 2007 at 18:26

Hum, is this really laggy for everyone or just me? It´s great that someone´s giving this a shot though

Christo · 18 Dec 2007 at 14:41

Another youtube app has been released - its far far better

http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl/

Raymond Lin · 18 Dec 2007 at 14:59

Chrisp7 said:
Another youtube app has been released - its far far better

http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl/

Shame you can't access your youtube profile or integrated into the web browser

Peter Diffey · 18 Dec 2007 at 15:15

This one is nice, not very reliable though, get error message sometimes

EDIT: very laggy too

astralcars · 18 Dec 2007 at 15:39

Raymond Lin said:
Shame you can't access your youtube profile or integrated into the web browser

Yup, some browser integration would have been great. Buffering is pretty slow on my N95 over 3G, though playback was fine once it eventually got started. As you'd expect, transfer speed wasn't an issue over Wifi, but I get a fair bit of lag even when the whole thing had buffered. In fairness the lag disappears once you save the video and open the local copy. In all, there's lots the developer could tweak but this is very useable. Good find!

El Gringo · 18 Dec 2007 at 19:29

THis is FAR better, I haven't been able to find a big fault yet, the search might be better but so far really smooth and really effective. Ace!