iPod touch YouTube links

[PowerFullMac]

Hey, did anyone else notice this, open Safari on your Touch and click on a link to a YouTube video and it opens it in the YouTube app! I have one in my signature at the moment by the way... Try it, cool I think.

 

[tefleming]

Hey, did anyone else notice this, open Safari on your Touch and click on a link to a YouTube video and it opens it in the YouTube app! I have one in my signature at the moment by the way... Try it, cool I think.

Yes, I've noticed. Actually never had it *not* work (despite reading that not all the vids are available in H.264.)

 

[PowerFullMac]

I just think its cool it knows its a TouTube video and opens it in the YouTube app.

 

[xUKHCx]

It also works from emails

Yes, I've noticed. Actually never had it *not* work (despite reading that not all the vids are available in H.264.)

I can't view one of my videos, yet.

 

[PowerFullMac]

Your video works for me.

 

[xUKHCx]

Your video works for me.

I couldn't get it to work on my iPhone, will try again later though.

 

[iJawn108]

i'm guessing this is so it doesnt bog down safari

 

[tefleming]

i'm guessing this is so it doesnt bog down safari

And also to not betray the URL of the H.264 videos (which might let people figure out how to sidestep the need for Flash on other platforms).

 

[Jasonbot]

Hmm, never done that *yet* So is Youtube converting ALL videos nowadays to H.264 for iPod/Apple TV/General Public?

 

[xUKHCx]

I couldn't get it to work on my iPhone, will try again later though.

I tried it any my iPhone reported that the video isn't ready yet

Edit: Got a bit distracted so took a little longer to find the article

Hmm, never done that *yet* So is Youtube converting ALL videos nowadays to H.264 for iPod/Apple TV/General Public?

Earlier this week, Apple announced that YouTube.com videos would become available on the Apple TV after a software update that will be made available in June.

iLounge spoke with Apple's Vice President of Worldwide Mac Hardware Marketing, David Moody, who provided more details about this upgrade.

According to Moody, not all of the Youtube catalog will be available on day one. Instead, "thousands of videos designed for Apple TV" will be available at launch, but that the remainder will become available by the fall. The reason for the delay is that Youtube will be encoding all of their videos into a "H.264 streaming-efficient compression format" specifically for the Apple TV. All of Youtube's videos are currently encoded in Flash Video (FLV) format.

No official reason is given for the mass shift in encoding formats for Youtube's entire catalog, but Macformat.co.uk believes it has to do with the iPhone.

As far as I know even now, Flash content per se might not play on the iPhone from day one. But Apple clearly doesn't – indeed, shouldn't – care, as YouTube is for many people the most critical site that uses Flash.

Indeed, both the iPod and iPhone can play H.264 encoded video, and so it seems the entire Youtube catalog will also become available to those devices as well by the fall.

Article link

 

[tefleming]

That was before the iPhone release. I thought that they were in the process of converting all vids to H.264? (too lazy to dig up linkage.)

 

[PowerFullMac]

His video works fine on my iPod Touch.

 

[andybno1]

also if you have maps installed and send from google maps website and click the link in an email it will send you direct to maps handy for directions I think