April 15th, 2008
As YouTube rolls out higher-quality videos, Ionut Alex Chitu shows us how to download those higher-quality videos as MP4 files.
YouTube’s mobile client doesn’t always work with my carrier’s crappy 3G service, so those MP4 downloads should come in handy for mobile video.
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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments
January 25th, 2008
If you’re a hardcore YouTube addict, you’ve probably checked out the previously limited selection of videos on YouTube for Mobile. You’d better have a good data plan, then, because YouTube has made most of its videos available through its mobile interface.
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment
October 3rd, 2007
Apple bragging about their iPhone’s native YouTube support suddenly seems like a distant and insignificant memory compared to the prospect of watching all the Web’s streaming Flash video on most any smartphone. Adobe just launched Flash Lite 3, which now supports playback of regular Flash videos on mobile devices. DoCoMo and Nokia are on board […]
By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment
June 22nd, 2007
YouTube Mobile is dependent upon your phone’s media player, which may not be well-adapted to YouTube videos. That’s why the iPhone’s dedicated YouTube player, as seen in the fifth iPhone ad, is a breath of fresh air.
For those who want to play Flash videos from any site on any phone, fear not: a Flash alternative […]
By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments
June 19th, 2007
After their exclusive deal with Verizon lapsed this month, YouTube broke free of the mobile carrier’s lame walled garden and put up their own mobile interface. Get your online video fix on the go through YouTube Mobile. It’s still limited to “selected” content — and it won’t work on browsers that don’t integrate directly with […]
By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments
May 29th, 2007
You’d think they’d have learned something from their previous failure in 2002 (”Vivazzi”. What a stupid name.) and their current alliance with YouTube. Instead, Vivendi plans to launch a paid mobile video service called “Vivendi Mobile Entertainment“.
Yes, they lost me at “paid”. With so much free video easily transcoded across platforms using free tools, Vivendi’s […]
By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments
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