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Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
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June 17th, @01:01PM
| Allright Eh...
Layout looks allright (albeit a little cramped on my blackjack).
They should have stretched it out a bit to cover more screen area.
The only problem is that I cannot watch a single video...
5 for 5 with a error while trying to open the video (via RTSP)
I find it odd that they chose to use RSTP, considering their flash based player, though. | |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
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June 17th, @01:05PM
| Re: Allright You are correct, it's RTSP. I fat fingered it.
There is no way in HELL that real player would ever make it on my phone (it's banned on my PC's).
I'm not sure if it's a problem with my phone or their site, but my phone does record to .3gp files - so i'm assuming it can play them.
Either way....I'm not really interested in YouTube on my phone. I rarely use it on my PC, either. I just wanted to post a quick review.
EDIT: RTSP is just a "container". While the actual video content CAN be real media, in this case, according to the article - it's a 3GP format. I see now why you suggested real player. The files in themselves are not real audio/video. | |
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ninjatutle
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA
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June 17th, @01:21PM
| . Can't watch a thing either. All I get are errors on my Moto Q. Plus they only limit you to what they want you to see. Search for stuff and its not available. | |
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dadkins
Land of Confusion
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | About right The videos at YT are just about right for a phone screen.
On anything above 640x480... way too small!
Way too pixelated.
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Pictor Guy
join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA | Yawn Perhaps with the upgrade to H.264 this will start to get interesting right now it's yesterdays toy. | |
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Mentat
The zeitgeist sucks
Premium
join:2001-02-25
Sugar Land, TX | zzzz I can't get anything to play on my Pocket PC, 'unspecified errors' 4tw. | |
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milnoc
join:2001-03-05
H2Z
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Crashes in both browsers I have both the Bell Mobility Browser and Opera Mini installed on my Samsung a920. The Bell browser fails with a parser error after selecting "Continue". Opera Mini can see the page following "Continue", but selecting a video crashes Opera Mini.
I know you can watch videos on the phone. I've done it before, but only via Bell's own services. And unfortunately with Bell, aside from the test clip you can use to test the phone, everything else comes with an extra service charge. And I've made it a rule never to pay extra for anything if I can help it, especially when there are free and better alternatives out there. | |
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gabriel3d
@airborne-e.com
| Re: Crashes in both browsers Interesting post, I just tried browsing the new mobile youtube (m.youtube.com) site also on a Samsung A920 (also on Bell Mobility) with the built-in browser. I got many videos to play fine but I also got many times (about 20% of the time) "parser error". Moral of the story, Bell isn't locking out YouTube (phew!), it's just that the site is flaky, keep trying, it will work, in some instances, I had to try over and over again about 7 times before I succeeded. | |
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
| WTF? Where is ASF/WMV? Uh, yeah. Why would YouTube pick such a lousy format (Real)? With the prevalence of Windows Mobile-based devices that probably make up a good majority of the data plans on Verizon and AT&T (until the iPhone comes out), I don't understand why they would have picked this format... they could at least offer the option of choosing either a Real or a Windows stream.
Looks like I'm still going to have to use Orb to watch YouTube videos... and even that's hit and miss. If Orb could work out all the damn bugs (which I don't think they ever will at the pace of their development) none of these mobile versions of video sites would even be necessary. | |
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fcisler
Premium
join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
| Re: WTF? Where is ASF/WMV? Read my post above, and more importantly - read the ARTICLE.
In it, it states that the videos are in 3gp format.
My nokia 3650 from 5 years ago played those!
RTSP, as stated above and linked to, is a transport format. It's not a video codec such as XviD, DivX or windows video.
WHY they chose to go 3gp seems obvious - i've yet to encounter ANY phone that does not play it.
It seems to be either a problem in their server implementation or in the three or four phones (mine included) of posters on this board. | |
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eco
Premium
join:2001-11-28
Wilmington, DE | ... No go on my Blackjack here either. The video tries to open in Windows Media Player but it just gets error messages. | |
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fenix_jn
join:2006-12-28
Miami, FL | Palm It runs ok on my palm 700p. | |
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No to ESPN
@sbcglobal.net | No Luck with My Verizon 8830 BlackBerry But then I have had problems with trying to port over videos in general. Maybe there is a workaround or an application that will fix. | |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
Premium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs: | Few phones are supported Ya, right, "any mobile handset user on any carrier" is bull. It seems that Real is only supported on three types of phones, so this would leave most of us out.
No dice on Blackberry.
-Dane | |
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Fluker
join:2005-04-07
West Lafayette, IN
| hmm Youtube has three main uses IMO
•checking out trailers, free media, tv clips etc
•Sharing personal videos (family, friends)
•being bored and looking at internet garbage (will it blend)
YT Mobile might a lot of potential to excel in the sharing personal stuff area here because you could easily post a URL on a corkboard or text it to a somebody. The only problem is that most people I know when told to open a browser on their phone might look at me like I just told them to put their car into subspace drive.
For trailers and whatnot, I can see that working well as people browse to kill time on the train or during lunch breaks.
Not that mobile browsing will compete with online browsing. But I can see a lot of data traffic on cell phones coming from youtube. | |
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DaCarez
join:2002-03-30
Scotch Plains, NJ
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June 17th, @07:57PM
| Works fine on Sprint Samsung A900 Works fine on my Sprint A900 running Opera Mini, although after watching a video it doesn't return to Opera Mini but rather just quits. Maybe would work better if I used the (otherwise terrible) built-in browser.
Edit: It does work better with the built-in browser with handing back and forth. Sweet. Yet another perk of the unstoppable SERO plan... | |
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Lil Jon
Premium
join:2006-06-26
Lawrenceville, GA
| Re: Works fine on Sprint Samsung A900 said by DaCarez  :Works fine on my Sprint A900 running Opera Mini, although after watching a video it doesn't return to Opera Mini but rather just quits. Maybe would work better if I used the (otherwise terrible) built-in browser.Edit: It does work better with the built-in browser with handing back and forth. Sweet. Yet another perk of the unstoppable SERO plan... ditto | |
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ixnay
Premium
join:2002-04-12
USA
clubs: | 700WX No go on the Treo 700WX. Will not touch Real Player | |
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Frank
is chilling
Premium
join:2000-11-03
somewhere
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Helio Ocean Works flawlessly with Helio's Ocean and browser. It uses helio's built in media player. In fact you can switch the videos between full screen (sidefliped keyboard) and non full screen (open keypad) versions. Once done playing you are taken back to the youtube video selection page.
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RTGC
@charter.com | Re: Helio Ocean Does anybody know if it works with the Cingular 8125 | |
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RTGC
@charter.com | CINGULAR 8125 does it work with CINGULAR 8125 | |
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OreoleO
Wanna Settle This Outside??
join:2004-05-22
Feasterville Trevose, PA | No go No go on the Sams T629, granted it's not a smartphone but it browses html websites. | |
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Julio
Bachatero y Que?
Premium
join:2003-03-19
Brooklyn, NY
clubs: | No love for windows mobile 5 tried to play the videos on my motorola Q, did not work. windows media player kept spitting errors. | |
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Subaru
1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs: | Re: No love for windows mobile 5 I never had any luck with it | |
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