Watch YouTube Videos on Your Phone
Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:46PM EST
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Uploading videos to YouTube from your cell phone has been possible since May, but watching them on your handset has been another matter—until now. Orb Networks just released an updated version of its MyCast, the free web-based service that lets you manage and stream videos, even TV shows, from your home computer to your phone, PDA, or laptop.
The update lets you stream videos from YouTube to your cell phone, also via your computer. It works like this: MyCast transcodes the video formats used on sites like YouTube, Guba, Google, and Daily Motion into a format suitable for viewing on your cell phone.
If there are any videos you particularly like, you can bookmark them (by clicking on the "Orb This" link) and compile them into a playlist of sorts—right from your phone.
I've tried out watching music videos saved on my desktop on my Treo using Orb's software and it works pretty well, if a little grainy. But given the uneven video quality of a lot of YouTube content, it would seem that the small screens of cell phones and PDAs are perfect venues for these little user-generated movies.
YouTube watchers: How often do you want to watch YouTube videos on your cell phone?
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1 Posted by leonardo_bjork on Sun Feb 4, 2007 3:10PM EST Report Abuse
I was amazed at first with the whole idea of it all and was psyched to get my new LG enV from Verizon. "not cheap". How ever it is now a great disapointment. As I pay an extra $15 dollars a month to Verizon for V-cast service and can only select from their preselected video "clips". Then if there is a good video you have to pay to watch it besides. I tried the mycast.orb wich enables users to stream all sorts of data to the mobile devices such as video phones right from there own home pc for free. Fantastic idea and great work by them. Unfortunately it will not work with Verizon. Now I pay more and get less than a lot of other services. It's to bad, I thought I had a thing of the future but after a few weeks its already become near worthless it seems. Will Verizon step up to the plate and give us whats already free out there anyway. I just got rid of my cable box because of the high prices I been paying for free channels too. I do like the Verizon phone service the best though as far as clear and good connections. I almost never lose service and never dropped a call, "yet"....