Official YouTube Mobile Client in beta

[Rafe]

YouTube has announced an official mobile client application for a number of handsets including several S60 phones. The application allows you to watch any YouTube video and offers browsing by popular videos (most viewed, top rated, featured), related videos or keyword search. You are able to sign into your YouTube account and access your own videos, subscriptions and favourites. The application also allows you to upload video from your phone to YouTube directly.

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[Bosambo]

emtube has shown what can be done, and using this for only 5 minutes it's easy to see this is a sub-par effort by professionals compared to a hard worker on his own in his bedroom.

Poor

[chrsfrwll]

Nice interface of this, and comes with the ability to upload and access my account. It looks neat. Nice search facility too and the way results are areturned, with use of spaces allowed. Only problem is, despite selecting my home wifi as the AP it seems to use my GPRS AP (as evidenced by the GPRS icon in the top left) and so I get slooooooow speeds. So black mark there and I can't really use it.

[jac57]

looked good installed it but had no sound what so ever with the videos nothing thought it was the phone, so got rid of it and installed emtube works great and i have sound...

[jpwbamber]

To install and use this new official mobile client you have to accept new Youtube terms and conditions. Some of these conditions appear to be aimed at restricting or preventing emtube useage.

From the terms and conditions......
http://uk.youtube.com/t/terms

6. General restrictions on use

C You agree not to access User Submissions (defined below) or other content made available on the Website (including YouTube Content, as defined below) through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Website itself, the YouTube Player, or such other means as YouTube may explicitly designate for this purpose;

D You agree not to (or attempt to) circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security related features of the Website or features that (i) prevent or restrict use or copying of any User Submissions or YouTube Content or (ii) enforce limitations on use of the Website or the content accessible on the Website;

[jal12]

Nice looking app, but can't get it work on my Nokia E61i (I know, it's not officially supported). When I try to watch videos, it says "Connection to video streaming server timed out".

[chrsfrwll]

Originally Posted by jac57

l......but had no sound what so ever with the videos nothing thought it was the phone....

Not sure if you saw this from the FAQ section:

...Nokia devices, you must have the Warning Tones enabled in your phone's settings to hear audio in YouTube. This setting can be found in "Profiles" > "Current Profile" >
"Personalize" > "Warning Tones."

The sound will not play if you have your profile on silent. Set it to Normal and the sound should work fine. Worked for me on my N95-3.

Thanks above for the tip about changing the profile.

I think this is pretty cool. It may not be as fully featured or as written-in-C as emTube, but it actually works on my E61i. emTube skips horribly when playing videos, even if I let it preload the whole video first.

Hmm... It does not work here. I am using N95 through WiFi with an O2 (Czech Republic) connection, and it says 'could not connect to video streaming server'
I have no problem streaming from m.youtube.com on the browser.

[chrsfrwll]

Originally Posted by Holme

Hmm... It does not work here. I am using N95 through WiFi with an O2 (Czech Republic) connection, and it says 'could not connect to video streaming server'
I have no problem streaming from m.youtube.com on the browser.

I've noticed that even though a WiFi AP is selected, the application will try and stream a selected video via GPRS, hence the "could not connect", as the bandwidth isn't big enough. Oddly, it seems to load the Homepage via WiFi though. I've raised this with YouTUbe

This is great. What i do find annoying about Nokia is the way you have to manually confiugure access points in realplayer... and then change these settings each time you move between bearers WiFi/HSDPA.

[pennas]

I noticed that on the Google Mobile Blog announcement about this, they also mentioned that the mobile website m.youtube.com will now stream the entire youtube catalogue (through RealPlayer). Up until now, this site had an extremely limited selection of videos available (ie not really worth the bother).

I've given it a quick go and seems to work perfectly - I think this might be my chosen solution!

[Rafe]

Make sure the access point setting is set to your WiFi hotscpot / access point in the Real player application if you want to use WiFi to watch video via YouTube.

I see that support is claimed for the N73 but Youtube tells me that my phone is not supported yet.

On a related note, the m.youtube.com site (which works well on my wi-fi enabled e61) does not work on my N73 (on O2). Has anyone seen this? emtube is great if you don't mind waiting.... the mobile youtube site (when it works) is
better IMO .