Fri 8 Feb 2008
About 1/2 year ago; it was not easy to play YouTube videos on our S60 devices. Now we have several client applications available; some of them even even support saving the video to our device.
I am going to discuss are three YouTube applications that I think are the best. All of them works have common features, such as:
- play video in full screen,
- search videos,
list popular videos,
find related videos.
emTube - The Best
- In my opinion, emTube is the best YouTube client so far.
It uses standard S60 user interface.
You can save the videos to your devices.
It supports accelerometer on N95 and N82. When you rotate your device, the video is also rotated.
MobiTubia - The Champion
- MobiTubia is the winner of OpenC competition that was held by Nokia last year.
- It has similar interface to Nokia’s Video Center. It runs mostly in landscape mode.
- Sometimes, I have a problem with the sound (skipped sound) -> may be only me?
Click here to download MobiTubia
YouTube Mobile - The Official
- This is the official client application provided by Google.
- It is a Java application; so you can expect a slow performance.
- It is integrated with your YouTube account; so you can upload your videos.
- I have a little bit a problem with this application. Sometimes, it is trying to connect to data connection (via cellular network) although I have explicitly chosen WiFi connection.
To download YouTube Mobile, point your web browser to http://m.youtube.com
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February 9th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Hi,
I had the same problem with access points in my Nokia N95 with youtube’s official client and I found out what the problem was.
It seems that Java apps use RealPlayer client to play videos and RealPlayer uses its own access point settings, no matter what you use In the Java app.
so if you want the official client to be full WiFi enabled you must also change RealPlayer settings.
Hope it helps.
February 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@Jorge: Thanks for the tip. I didn’t think about that… well… it’s a Java application.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Hey, thanks for the Mobile YouTube tip. Previously, they only supported the Nokia Internet Tablets. Now, even my E51 is supported. Though I can\’t seem to be able to connect to a streaming server over Wi-Fi. Perhaps it\’s a connectivity issue on my side.