A MUCH Easier Way to Watch YouTube Vids on BJ II

[Guest krinkle442]

I've been seeing all this stuff about hacking flash into your phones and stuff to get YouTube videos to play in IE... how about this, instead?

• on your Blackjack II, goto http://m.youtube.com
  

Lo and behold, every video on YouTube will magically play on your phone (via Windows Media Player)... :(

No need to hack... no need to pay $ for Opera Mobile... just click, baby!

(yes, I know it kinda warps the bandwidth of the vids, but c'mon! ... C'MON!)

edit: oops, I dinna mean to rate my own post but it appears it won't let me undo it... sorry... but hell, it's a four-star solution to the problem, isn't it? :D

Edited July 1, 2008 by krinkle442

[Guest tsutton]

The Mobile Youtube has been around for a while and has been widely discussed on MoDaCo. :D

But it's good to hear your success story about using it with your phone.

[Guest Simon Desser]

Also mobile youtube has limited content and low quality videos.

[Guest PPCInformer]

try this for you tube : YouTube Play

its free

Edited July 2, 2008 by PPCInformer

[Guest WearTheFoxHat]

Supports APPtoDate too :D

[Guest krinkle442]

The Mobile Youtube has been around for a while and has been widely discussed on MoDaCo. :D

...

Yeah, I guess I was being a little bit sarcastic when I posted that... It just seems a little scary to hack a phone when you really don't "need" to.

[Guest krinkle442]

Also mobile youtube has limited content and low quality videos.

I didn't realize it limited the content... I did notice the bandwidth of the vids being significantly reduced, though...

[Guest WearTheFoxHat]

I wish one of these apps, such as CorePlayer would actually let you login to your YouTube account.

I tend to save loads of stuff to favourites, and its then only when Im out and about I want to look at something amusing ive saved to faves.

[Guest krinkle442]

try this for you tube : YouTube Play

its free

That looks pretty cool, what with the actual .flv and all... but is the .NET Compact Framework v3.5 I have to install to use it going to do anything adverse to my phone? 33 Meg seems like a bit of a big download for phone stuff... :D

[Guest tamanaco]

I've been using Veveo vTap Beta http://www.vtap.com/m.html

It kills two birds with one stone - Videoclips (incl. Youtube) and Wikipedia searches.

Edited July 2, 2008 by tamanaco

[Guest krinkle442]

I've been using Veveo vTap Beta http://www.vtap.com/m.html

It kills two birds with one stone - Videoclips (incl. Youtube) and Wikipedia searches.

I'm getting a "page not found" when I go beyond the main download page... ??? :D

[Guest krinkle442]

try this for you tube : YouTube Play

its free

With .NET Compact Framework v3.5 installed, I still get a "not supported" exception... :D

[Guest tamanaco]

I'm getting a "page not found" when I go beyond the main download page... ??? :D

Click in the "Windows Mobile" link right above the second phone from the right. This will take you to the download page. On the seventh row down in the Download page there is a "Download" link for the "Blackjack from AT&T". It will download a vTap_sp.exe that you need to run from your PC while connected to the BJII.

[Guest krinkle442]

Click in the "Windows Mobile" link right above the second phone from the right. This will take you to the download page. On the seventh row down in the Download page there is a "Download" link for the "Blackjack from AT&T". It will download a vTap_sp.exe that you need to run from your PC while connected to the BJII.

Yeah... When I go to the "Windows Mobile" link, all the images are missing and when you click the link for the Blackjack II, I get taken to a Microsoft Search page with the "page not found" (which is odd)...

Anyhow, I just went to vtap.com on the phone browser and it downloaded like a charm... wild and wacky stuff... now, to see if it's worth ze hoot.

Much thanks, sir.