No Streaming at all?! (And No Flash) - Touch HD General

SlashGear.com HTC Touch HD Review Part 1 said:
Flash and streaming media is not supported, unfortunately (there’s a standalone YouTube app to view videos from that site).
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SlashGear have posted the first of two parts of their HTC Touch HD review.
No streaming at all?! I have no experience of Windows Mobile so I do apologies for the ignorance.
But no flash streaming? Very disappointing.
What about streaming from an rtsp:// or an mms:// ? From what Slashgear said, that's out of the question too.
Am I right or just interpreting their sentence incorreclty.

you interpreted wrong.
they were talking about no streaming within the browser, think desktop youtube site. you could use third party player that can pickup the links when you click on a rtsp: link or whatever and open up the player separate from the broswer and do the streaming that way.

There's actually a built-in application to play Streaming Media.

buggybug0 said:
they were talking about no streaming within the browser, think desktop youtube site. you could use third party player that can pickup the links when you click on a rtsp: link or whatever and open up the player separate from the broswer and do the streaming that way.
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That's a bit inconvenient and silly isn't it? I guess it'll have to do.
I assume this lets down other WM devices such as the SonyEricsson X1 ?

Acelister said:
There's actually a built-in application to play Streaming Media.
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Apart from the Youtube video application, there's a separate one I take it? I'd rather watch some factual programming such as CNN or BBC News rather than fake videos of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live and dogs on skateboards !

SingaporeAirlines said:
That's a bit inconvenient and silly isn't it? I guess it'll have to do.
I assume this lets down other WM devices such as the SonyEricsson X1 ?
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Opera supports Flash and straming without a problem, it just isn't installed. Go to Adobe or other sites, get Flash Lite and there you got your streaming and youtube videos...

Raziel1 said:
Opera supports Flash and straming without a problem, it just isn't installed. Go to Adobe or other sites, get Flash Lite and there you got your streaming and youtube videos...
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Oh right. Thanks for that - very helpful, and probably the last stumbling block before I buy the Touch HD.

SingaporeAirlines said:
Oh right. Thanks for that - very helpful, and probably the last stumbling block before I buy the Touch HD.
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Just for information: As far is i saw last time, the latest Flash Lite is not realeased yet. So its not on Adobe yet, but it is on the net, so just search for flash lite on google and you will find a download link

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Youtube videos and VLC player

Has anybody tried using the following to download and view Youtube videos on their Wizard?
http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/
http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-2194_4-10267151.html
I did it on my laptop....wondering if it can be done on the Wiz.
repsol47 said:
Has anybody tried using the following to download and view Youtube videos on their Wizard?
http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/
http://www.download.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-2194_4-10267151.html
I did it on my laptop....wondering if it can be done on the Wiz.
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Please read http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=969&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Have a look at this site:
http://www.srobbin.com/mobilevideo/
It a mobile search for google video
You can also use www.orb.com. The app is great. The youtube videos play nicely on my 8125
Thanks guys for the feedback.
freeyayo50 said:
You can also use www.orb.com. The app is great. The youtube videos play nicely on my 8125
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how did u get to view you tube on your 8125? i have orb 2.0 and it keeps asking me for some codecs.
You have to download certain codecs and install them from there website. The codec that i installed to get the youtube videos to play was the ffdshow codec.
what do you guys mean? go to tinytube.net on your phone and you can download any video from 6 different sources, including, google, myspace, and break just to name a few.
its awesome
jawnsixteen said:
what do you guys mean? go to tinytube.net on your phone and you can download any video from 6 different sources, including, google, myspace, and break just to name a few.
its awesome
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I second that. Nothing to install, just download away.
--M
You CANNOT view youtube videos with tinytube.net. Plus it seems im always being queued to view a damn video. Orb is faster compared to the quality...only downside is you have to have your computer running. Which I dont find to be a problem personally
but most youtube videos are on google and myspace anyway
It seems that none of the offered solutions properly play streaming video. Anyone found any other way to do so?
danik_iceman said:
It seems that none of the offered solutions properly play streaming video. Anyone found any other way to do so?
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I followed these instructions and the work very very well on my WM6 Kaiser.
http://www.allshadow.com/2007/11/28/how-to-watch-online-video/
Kind of off topic, but a little similar... Is anyone having problems downloading streaming media from these sites? I have an AT&T Tilt and whenever I click on a streaming link that is flashed based, Realplayer will come up and tell me this file format is not supported. But, there is no option anywhere to uninstall this thing! I also tried adding all associations /w TCPMP but still no luck. Anyone else running into this?

found adobe/macromedia flash player 7

Sorry if this is old news but I've been looking for something to play flash on my XDA for a while but I couldn't find a mention in any forums, so I tracked this down on the adobe site
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_pocketpc/downloads/player.html
again sorry if it's old news but you never know someone else may have been looking for the same thing
Edit reason - realised people may skip this if they thought I was looking for a copy rather than I'd found one, also attached the file just in case it disappears from the adobe site
won't play
i've downloaded the flash player and installed it..but i still can't watch videos from youtube??? any suggestions on how i might fix this???
spyrgyro said:
i've downloaded the flash player and installed it..but i still can't watch videos from youtube??? any suggestions on how i might fix this???
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If you want to watch videos from YouTube and other sites, just use Vtap!
It´s great and it searches many sites! Oh an best of all, it´s free!
spyrgyro said:
i've downloaded the flash player and installed it..but i still can't watch videos from youtube??? any suggestions on how i might fix this???
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Also if you look into development & haking there are a few threads about how to watch youtube videos
Good luck,
esme said:
Sorry if this is old news but I've been looking for something to play flash on my XDA for a while but I couldn't find a mention in any forums, so I tracked this down on the adobe site
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_pocketpc/downloads/player.html
again sorry if it's old news but you never know someone else may have been looking for the same thing
Edit reason - realised people may skip this if they thought I was looking for a copy rather than I'd found one, also attached the file just in case it disappears from the adobe site
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You're right! I was looking for this. Many thanks.
Actually for watching youtube videos flashplayer 7 is not enough, because, if I am right, the video streaming feature (which is used by every video site) has been introduced only in flashplayer 9.
Hi,
This tool will help you to enable flash support into your Opera browser: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4255967&postcount=21
Best regards,
aDEO
Flash Player on Skyfire
If anybody wants to watch any flash movies....you need Skyfire web browser... it plays everything from youtube to online movies like hulu and everything you could think of.
lightflier said:
If anybody wants to watch any flash movies....you need Skyfire web browser... it plays everything from youtube to online movies like hulu and everything you could think of.
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Thanx and welcome to the forum... skyfire has been around for around a year... and opera can also play flash if you use the fix flash cab....
Ading to Rajiv comment I have to say that Opera 10 is the best browser I ever had!

How can i download the youtube video after i watch on htc youtube player

How can i download the youtube video after i watch on htc youtube player
thx
Youtube
You can't, videos are owned by youtube.
there is a program that lets you do this. its called GETYTV
search for the video on the phone in youtube and then you can download the video as mp4 or whatever so you can bluetooth it to other people or just show it to other people from your memory.
dieselboy said:
there is a program that lets you do this. its called GETYTV
search for the video on the phone in youtube and then you can download the video as mp4 or whatever so you can bluetooth it to other people or just show it to other people from your memory.
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i think that's not exactly what he meant. i think he wants to download the videos he's watching in the youtube-client. what you are proposing only works if you surf to www.youtube.com via opera.
btw: keepvids.com is a good site, too.
qkps2 said:
How can i download the youtube video after i watch on htc youtube player
thx
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why dont you download form the computer?
hebbe said:
i think that's not exactly what he meant. i think he wants to download the videos he's watching in the youtube-client. what you are proposing only works if you surf to www.youtube.com via opera.
btw: keepvids.com is a good site, too.
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you use the GETYTV client to search for the videos and download them that way, so yes you cannot do it using the youtube application and it uses internet explorer by the looks of it. it works and thats it. nothing flashy

Is there a way to play YouTube movies directly from Opera?

Ok, so you can install Flash for Opera but it sucks - it makes the phone unstable and slow. However it would be great if you could do the same thing you can do on the iPhone - that is whenever there's a YT movie you see the play icon but when you click on it it opens the YT app and it runs the movie in it not in the browser. Is there a way to do the same thing on HD2 with Opera?
gregormax said:
Ok, so you can install Flash for Opera but it sucks - it makes the phone unstable and slow. However it would be great if you could do the same thing you can do on the iPhone - that is whenever there's a YT movie you see the play icon but when you click on it it opens the YT app and it runs the movie in it not in the browser. Is there a way to do the same thing on HD2 with Opera?
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I don't know about Opera as it isn't my fave, but install Skyfire and abra kadabra Youtube and other streaming sites work fine
Yes go to the mobile version of youtube which is.... m.youtube.com
tboy2000 said:
Yes go to the mobile version of youtube which is.... m.youtube.com
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That's not what I'm looking for I think I was misunderstood. Sometimes when you read a page there is a YT movie embedded on it. On the iPhone you can click on it and watch it in the YT application. Here all you have is the border of the movie with no info. So you even don't know the URL of the movie and as result you cannot watch it (well you'd have to view the code of the page and search for the URL).
install skyfire, its much better so long as you don't mind not being able to pinch zoom.
paulking said:
install skyfire, its much better so long as you don't mind not being able to pinch zoom.
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I don't like Skyfire's interface. I'll just have to wait for Opera 10 - if it supports pinch zoom cuz now (in Beta 2) it doesn't...
gregormax said:
That's not what I'm looking for I think I was misunderstood. Sometimes when you read a page there is a YT movie embedded on it. On the iPhone you can click on it and watch it in the YT application. Here all you have is the border of the movie with no info. So you even don't know the URL of the movie and as result you cannot watch it (well you'd have to view the code of the page and search for the URL).
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When you go to m.youtube.com you are provided with thumbnail of the video clips. Tap on it and the video automatically plays in the built in HTC youtube application full screen.
tboy2000 said:
When you go to m.youtube.com you are provided with thumbnail of the video clips. Tap on it and the video automatically plays in the built in HTC youtube application full screen.
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I got it . But I was writing about the situation when a video is embedded on some other site than youtube - like toucharcade.com for instance...
ah ok mister
gregormax said:
I got it . But I was writing about the situation when a video is embedded on some other site than youtube - like toucharcade.com for instance...
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OH come on ... You mean Redtube?
gregormax said:
I got it . But I was writing about the situation when a video is embedded on some other site than youtube - like toucharcade.com for instance...
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What you are talking about only works in IE built in on the HD2. I just did it and it worked fine. Check out this short video I just made with it working in IE on the HD2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jYfbI-916g
zabique said:
OH come on ... You mean Redtube?
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No - I meant embedded video files on websites like here for instance: http://prowokacje.com.pl - as you can see if you open this website in Opera you won't be able to view embedded YT videos. As I can see it should work in IE (video in the post above) but IE sucks . I'd like to see the same feature in Opera or Opera opening YT movies in the YT app.
Search for fixoperaflash
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Search for fixoperaflash
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As I already said in the first post fixoperaflash makes the phone unstable and it freezes the browser. YT movies work muuuuch better in the YT app. Ok, I see there's no resolution of my problem right now so I'll wait for Opera 10 with Flash and pinch zoom.
I am also looking for the answer to this. Some cooked ROM's have this working. I know that the stock t-mobile one will NOT do this weather its the mobile youtube or full version in opera. There must be some reg edit that makes this possible. I know IE on the HD2 will do this properly out of the box but I don't use IE for browsing the web on the HD2.
Raspster said:
I am also looking for the answer to this. Some cooked ROM's have this working. I know that the stock t-mobile one will NOT do this weather its the mobile youtube or full version in opera. There must be some reg edit that makes this possible. I know IE on the HD2 will do this properly out of the box but I don't use IE for browsing the web on the HD2.
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do you know which cooked ROM can do this? I would also really be interested to have external youtube app opening up Opera links. thanks.

skyfire 2.0

just been on skyfire site and it says now available for android via marketplace , but i cannot find it any where cannot even download it from their site
yeah i just tried to download it too, didnt work! can't wait
I can't download it either :/ neither from their web page, nor from the market...
i cannot even find the skyfire forums everything has changed on there site
Installed ok and tesing now.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=51A6LL3B
new to this how do i get it into my phone after downloading it
i wonder when it will appear on the android marketplace
Does this version have flash?
graphic914 said:
Does this version have flash?
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it's not actually flash, but i think it includes has some sort of workaround to play flash videos in full screen.
can you get timeform radio on it that needs flashplayer
jasnmb said:
it's not actually flash, but i think it includes has some sort of workaround to play flash videos in full screen.
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It does just have a video codec to play FLV files I think.
the direct download is up. works pretty well so far!
http://get.skyfire.com/dl_android.php
Just tried it..just another browser , useless without flash 10.....
rori~ said:
Just tried it..just another browser , useless without flash 10.....
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I disagree. are there any other browsers that can play flash video? Sure, it can't play everything that flash 10 can, but at least I can now watch a video on ESPN or CNN if I want.
most annoying no flash is there any other way to play wma 32kbs stations
ukon said:
It does just have a video codec to play FLV files I think.
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exactly...the flash content doesnt just automatically play in the webpage you load, it just pops up in a little player and gives you the option of playing it....
seems like this was a good idea at some point, but i'm not sure when
They are cashing in before Flash comes to Android with a real plugin
xanaviarai said:
They are cashing in before Flash comes to Android with a real plugin
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This isn't true - skyfire has been available on windows mobile and symbian for many years now, even with flash lite/flash players around. And its free.
Also, skyfire should eventually be compatible with other proprietary plugins like silverlight etc. later on. ( I don't know exactly how they do it though...)
HunteronX said:
This isn't true - skyfire has been available on windows mobile and symbian for many years now, even with flash lite/flash players around. And its free.
Also, skyfire should eventually be compatible with other proprietary plugins like silverlight etc. later on. ( I don't know exactly how they do it though...)
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Also it'll be handy for people who have phones which support skyfire but which won't be upgradeable to Android 2.2.

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