Another GREAT way to play YouTube, Google Video & Veoh Videos for both WM platforms!!

[Guest Menneisyys]

It was just a few days ago that I’ve reported on the latest developments of playing back YouTube (and similar) videos on both Windows Mobile platforms.

Developing for Windows Mobile is so blazingly fast that immediately after publishing my article, a brand new and even better solution has been released, which doesn’t require any manual intervention to search and play videos any more.

There is an excellent tutorial, along with the two CAB files you need, HERE (related thread HERE). Please follow this tutorial on setting up the new player. Note that, in order to play back videos on a touchscreen-less MS Smartphone (Windows Mobile Standard) platform, you’ll need THIS TCPMP CAB file (instead of the one linked in the tutorial) – while the other CAB file, FlashVideoBundle.CAB, can be installed on Smartphones as well.

After installing, just go to, say, YouTube and click any video on, say, the main homepage. The video playback will (almost) immediately start, after switching to TCPMP.

Compared to the MobyTube-based solution explained in my previous tutorial,

The pros:

1. when you click a link in the REAL YouTube (and the other video repositories), you will be taken straight to TCPMP playing back the clip. No MobyTube searching / copy-pasting is necessary!
   
2. Smartphone compliance!
   

The cons:

1. not compatible with alternative browsers like Opera Mobile or NetFront; with them, stick to the MobyTube solution explained in my previous tutorial. Note that it’s compatible with all PIE plug-ins (tested with PIEPlus and MultiIE; the latter on both (Pocket PC’s and Smartphones) platforms)
   
2. no pre-WM5 compliance
   

All in all, GO GET IT! You’ll LOVE it!

[Guest mikeeey]

great! best so far too! this is probably the easiest way out of all the ways to get youtube on your phone.

here's the FlashVideoBundle.cab for those who dont want to register at treoCentral.

so is there any way to view the page though? say if i wanted to leave a comment on the video?

FlashVideoBundle.CAB

Edited August 2, 2007 by mikeeey

[Guest Hardz]

Will, this allow FLV video files to be played by TCPMP on WM2003se smartphones ?

[Guest Hardz]

Will, this allow FLV video files to be played by TCPMP on WM2003se smartphones ?

Just tried and it does not work on WM2003se smartphones .

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Totally slows up my Touch from a crawl to a lockup. Unusable for me.

[Guest mikeeey]

Totally slows up my Touch from a crawl to a lockup. Unusable for me.

strange how this works for no one. it works just fine for me. i click on the youtube video i want, tcpmp opens, and i start to watch the movie.

[Guest Hardz]

strange how this works for no one. it works just fine for me. i click on the youtube video i want, tcpmp opens, and i start to watch the movie.

It works fine on PPC's (tried on HTC Wizard) but I can't understand why there's no support for smartphones 2003se using TCPMP ?

[Guest Menneisyys]

Quick warning: IEM plugin-based YouTube tools currently don't work!

I've just been reported YouTube has changed the HTML layout; hence, the well-known IEM plug-in to play back YouTube automatically from IEM doesn't work for the time being. I'll announce at once when there's a newer, compatible version.

For the time being, you can still use the tutorial HERE, as it doesn't depend on a plug-in and, therefore, still works.

[Guest mikeeey]

Quick warning: IEM plugin-based YouTube tools currently don't work!

I've just been reported YouTube has changed the HTML layout; hence, the well-known IEM plug-in to play back YouTube automatically from IEM doesn't work for the time being. I'll announce at once when there's a newer, compatible version.

For the time being, you can still use the tutorial HERE, as it doesn't depend on a plug-in and, therefore, still works.

dang....

[Guest Menneisyys]

As was reported some days ago, YouTube has changed the layout of their pages, resulting in the best IEM plug-in not working.

Now the author of the plug-in has just released a new (1.2) version, which fixes this problem. See his original post for the download.

BTW, there is also an interesting post on playing back YouTube videos via YouTube Pocket HERE.

[Guest mikeeey]

As was reported some days ago, YouTube has changed the layout of their pages, resulting in the best IEM plug-in not working.

Now the author of the plug-in has just released a new (1.2) version, which fixes this problem. See his original post for the download.

BTW, there is also an interesting post on playing back YouTube videos via YouTube Pocket HERE.

and for those who arent registered at treo central, here it is.

the YouTube Pocket website is pretty neat also.

FlashVideoBundle.CAB

[Guest Confucious]

;)

Finally a youtube solution that works!

Thanks