iPhone OS 2.0 firmware shows embedded YouTube videos
Posted by Will on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 12:12 pm under Mac OS, iPhone, Apple, Applications, Announcements
Don't get too excited just yet. Yes, the next version of the iPhone OS will feature the ability to embed YouTube videos directly into a webpage. What you get is an embedded YouTube video playing on the website like you'd expect from your desktop. But, there's a catch. You can only view embedded YouTube videos that have already been converted to H.264 encoding by YouTube. In other words, videos that are available through the iPhone's YouTube application will be viewable as embedded videos on webpages.
The feature works similarly to the way that iTransmogrify can make embedded YouTube videos viewable in the webpage. But, while iTransmogrify uses a bit of data URL magic to get its work done, the new iPhone v2.0 firmware apparently uses a Safari plug-in to play nice withe embedded YouTube videos. The same YouTube plug-in that I mentioned some time ago.
It sure would be nice if Apple would let Adobe develop that full-featured Flash plug-in for the iPhone. It's evident that the iPhone's Safari browser can already work with plug-ins, and it would be a shame if third-party iPhone application developers (or at least Adobe and Sun) are kept out of iPhone plug-in heaven.
[Via: iPhone Atlas]
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April 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
This is good news. I hate how the videos embedded on my blog don't show up on my iPod!
July 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am
Having tried to watch videos on other sites, my previous excitement has now gone. I guess video only works with quicktime videos and YouTube videos. I'm sure I've read or heard somewhere that the iphone gives you access to the "full internet" but as all videos are not included in this, this statement is false. It seems to be daft and a bit of a rip off that internet access is not quite 100% and that if I want to watch a demo online i have to wait until I get home to watch it on my laptop!