how do i pretend my browser is running in an iDevice? - General Questions and Answers

On my iDevice, I can watch videos and the website serve them up in mp4 format. I've use safari and chrome without any problems. Videos load quite fast.
But now I'm on android (cm10), the same website wants me to use flash and from what I've read in another thread, flash on android can be slow and I need to use specific browser.
So my question is: how do I make the website serve me videos in mp4 format so I don't need the flash plugin. Thanks
PS. Not sure if this is even possible or maybe the website was serving me HTML 5?

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Is there any way to watch You tube video?

I was trying to open with Opera, IE, WMP. Don't really know which application I need to watch it...I believe there is a simple answer for the question. But, I just don't know it...
So, no1 knows?
Watched this topic?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=292825&highlight=you+tube
Have you read this?
it seems that all the solutions there are for downloading, converting and then watching. But I need it to work on-fly, without downloading, the way we watch it on our PCs.
Now Windows Mobile Phones Can, so why can't we?
I know I'm getting sick of seeing those stupid Verizon adds for the EnV that shows the huge YouTube logo on the screen, and wondering why my WM phone can't. I know my phone can do hundreds, if not thousands of things, that the EnV can't, but as long as there is ONE thing that a non WM phone can do that mine can't, I feel like less of a man. Where do I sign up mfrazz's 12 step program?
and is there any way to watch p2p tv on ppc like on pc?
I just intalled the newest version on Opera 8.65... its in beta right now... BUT IT PLAYS YOUTUBE videos!!!! WooHoo!!!
It has flash support built in and works nice!!!http://ppcwarez.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19732
try..
Go this site with your device browser. You can even download the videos. And you can search grouper, youtube etc.
tinytube.net
Best regards.
charly_mx said:
Go this site with your device browser. You can even download the videos. And you can search grouper, youtube etc.
tinytube.net
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beware... tinytube is known for spyware and more...
May have to give that Opera Beta a whirl
webgrafix said:
I just intalled the newest version on Opera 8.65... its in beta right now... BUT IT PLAYS YOUTUBE videos!!!! WooHoo!!!
It has flash support built in and works nice!!!http://ppcwarez.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19732
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why it keeps asking for java or flashplayer (under wm6)?
does anyone know how to format the window so that I can watch the whole video (on youtube) using Opera?
Orb Lets You Play YouTube on Your PPC
I use a program called Orb to play YouTube on my PPC. It loads on your home PC, then you use any PPC browser to access it. It's pretty dang sweet. I have had hardly any problems with it.
orb.com
Well, there are a lot of ways to watch you tube video offline on your PPC. For example, you can just download a youtube video using youtube grabber on your PC then convert it to avi using some endcoder, and then watch it with TCMP or Core PLayer.
However, the main point of the thread is to get a way of watching youtube video on-fly being online with you PPC.
So, far the best way of doing that is using new Opera. However, it's not a perfect way
orb is the way to go. orb does it on the fly also. check it out.
blueaudi18 said:
orb is the way to go. orb does it on the fly also. check it out.
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It really is. The only problem I found about it is that the PC must always run the application and be online to be able to watch video from PPC, which is sometimes a problem for me. The rest is awsome.
the other nice thing is you can also view your webcam anytime also. I use it for sucurity purposes . very nice feature.
danik_iceman said:
So, no1 knows?
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I think downloads are the only way to watch you tube videos. Try this site: mymobileclips.com, free registration, specify the format you want your videos, and you can get Google, Myspace, Ifilm, Dailymotion, Break, Metacafe, too.
I personally believe ORB is by fair the best thing to cross streaming\PPC lines...I have absolutely no problem watching youtube on my PPC using orb, and talk about an iPhone?? Who needs that when you have an 250 gig hdd with movies, music, pictures, and then are able to watch your local cable service thats at home while your out and about on a lunch break, and then to be able to access your PC and browse and download files from anywhere............ORB IS GOD when it comes to media and mobile devices....not to mention to gain access on my xbox 360 using orb as well without switching my external from device to device, and not using the lame media center....orbs great....just thought id mention it.
SiLeNtKiLLa said:
I personally believe ORB is by fair the best thing to cross streaming\PPC lines...I have absolutely no problem watching youtube on my PPC using orb, and talk about an iPhone?? Who needs that when you have an 250 gig hdd with movies, music, pictures, and then are able to watch your local cable service thats at home while your out and about on a lunch break, and then to be able to access your PC and browse and download files from anywhere............ORB IS GOD when it comes to media and mobile devices....not to mention to gain access on my xbox 360 using orb as well without switching my external from device to device, and not using the lame media center....orbs great....just thought id mention it.
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I've been trying orb and im a bit new to it. But from my understanding, orb will only work if you pre-selected the videos on your PC first right?
Is there any way to watch ANY youtube video? For example if you searched for one and want to watch it, you cant use the standard browser to see it. How does orb come into play for watching videos on demand? Will it only allow us to see videos that we have pre-added on our pc with the orb plugin?
marscandybars said:
I've been trying orb and im a bit new to it. But from my understanding, orb will only work if you pre-selected the videos on your PC first right?
Is there any way to watch ANY youtube video? For example if you searched for one and want to watch it, you cant use the standard browser to see it. How does orb come into play for watching videos on demand? Will it only allow us to see videos that we have pre-added on our pc with the orb plugin?
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Orb defines videos, pics, audio, files, etc defined in a specifc folder....when you setup orb it then scans the folders to save the content locations onto the orb server, so what ever you put in a specified folder, orb will pull it in for you.
With youtube, just download the plugin on orbs website for IE, install.....then login into orb on your ppc.....go to videos....then it comes up with an search for youtube....google...yahoo...etc, type in what you want to search, it then show it infront of you, click what you want to watch, then click play stream.
No pre-added video for youtube, just an search as if you were at your desktop.

Possible to mask the G1 browser?

Hi!
In the UK we have a website called iPlayer where you can access all of BBC's content from the previous week.
This website is available to two mobile phones, the Apple iPhone and the Nokia N96.
The way this is made available to the iPhone, is that the iPlayer website detects that it is been browsed from an iPhone, and therefore it gains access to streams that are encoded in 400Kbps H.264 video, 116Kbps AAC audio format, which the G1 should also be able to handle perfectly. However, when I try to browse to the iPlayer website I am prompted to download Flash, which the regular desktop version uses.
Now, I believe that there is three solutions to this:
1. Wait for BBC to enable G1 users to access the iPlayer the same way as the iPhone out of the box. - Ideal, but likely to take some time.
2. Mask the G1's browser to look like the iPhone's Safari browser - Best solution at the moment.
3. Wait for flash to arrive - Not ideal, you will get a format on the video that is encoded for PC users, and will probably even be unplayable on the G1 due to the high resolution on the video.
As most people would agree, we should try to mask the G1 browser as the iPhone Safari browser, I am not so much into the world of web browsers, so I do not now how to do this. I understand that we need to change the signature of the browser, but I don't have a slightest clue on how to do so.
Therefore I ask the know-it-all's here on the xda-dev forums!
link to the BBC iPlayer teams blog about iPlayer on iPhone:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_iplayer_on_iphone_behind_t.html
Thanks a lot!
Zappza
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It seems that if you use the third-party browser 'Steel' you can choose what to mask it as, however, there seems to be no video streaming capabilities in Android?
The webpage loads as if it was on the iPhone, but when you try to select a episode, nothing happens...
i believe the steel browser in the apps can do this. correct me if im wrong.
jacex0 said:
i believe the steel browser in the apps can do this. correct me if im wrong.
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You are correct, Steel allows you to pretend the browser is the iPhones, G1's, or Desktop.

browser supporting flash. skyfire doesn't

Hello. I've read that skyfire supports flash. The thing is that every site i enter that requires flash,i got every time the message "this website requires flash player" so skyfire cant handle flash in is full purpose. Is there any alternative? Thanks
your right in saying SkyFire supports flash but its Android 1.6 that doesnt support it, we'll have to wait till 2.2 comes for the X10
Skyfire as a web browser, doesn't actually support flash. The server that renders the web pages that send them to your browser for viewing does. Skyfire's functionality has nothing to do with the x10 being on 1.6 versus 2.2 with NATIVE flash support.
Skyfire works fine on my x10, and use it all the time to watch videos. However, having said that, not all sites are supported by Skyfire. Also, Skyfire does not work as per the norm when trying to view video. An example of this is when I go to Youtube, Break or other video sites. I can click on a video and go to the videos page. However, I get the message that I need adobe flash player where the video is. BUT! if you hit the menu button, you'll see a "video" tab in the bottom left. If you click that, it will play the video. Now as I said, not all sites are supported by Skyfire. A few of your favorite porn sites just wont work
Try pornhub or keezmovies.....yummy!!!!

HTML5 music streaming websites?

Anyone know of any websites using HTML5 to stream music? Pandora is going to update their website to HTML5 soon, but was just wondering if there are any good legal websites streaming using HTML5 for the time being.
something like this>>
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/mobile/HTML5/Audio/Default.html
There is one MS used to demo HTML5 on IE9 - don't recall what it was, but since it wasn't in English, it was pretty much unusable to me. I got it to play something though, and it worked as promised.
But right now I am dissapointed with the lack of HTML5 content on the web. And also it looks like some sites have odd implementations of it. Vimeo HTML5 player, for example, does not work on WP, but does work on the desktop version of IE9. I think the problem is on Vimeo's end - checking for browsers, and not allowing HTML5 to work on browsers not explicitly supported by Vimeo.
The one which MS demoed is already linked in my OP, was just wondering if there were websites using that tech.
I just figured there would be plenty of html5 websites since the iOS devices so not support flash, but I guess flash still rules the web.
https://droptun.es/ has a html5 version of their service (you'll have to link your dropbox account, if you have one, with it, or create one)
Haven't tried it on mango yet but in theory you'll be able to listen to your music while multitasking.
Its no HTML5 support in: 7661.WP7_5_Trial.
Are your just going to test it on your pc ?
to answer you question found this site:
http://myousic.me/play/#playlist
Pyls said:
Its no HTML5 support in: 7661.WP7_5_Trial.
Are your just going to test it on your pc ?
to answer you question found this site:
http://myousic.me/play/#playlist
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Ehm there is HTML5 support, http://beat.no/ works pretty well, but don't think u can listen to full songs.
Saw some Swedish guy demo this site a way back on wmpoweruser.
Pyls said:
Its no HTML5 support in: 7661.WP7_5_Trial.
Are your just going to test it on your pc ?
to answer you question found this site:
http://myousic.me/play/#playlist
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IE9 Mobile on Mango beta supports HTML5 and IMO is better than even the desktop version of IE9 Try the Mobile IE9 test drive site, its amazing.
Pandora if you're a One subscriber all users within a couple weeks. Just pin it to your start screen and you're good to go!
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You can view youtube vids in your browser. Just enable html5 on youtube, works perfectly for me.
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jango on mango
try Jango.com .. its working in mango.. and im loving it

HTML5 vs Adobe....what's the difference?

I can't quite get whats the difference between the two.
Someone else may be able to give you a much more detailed explanation but I will try to make it simple. Adobe Flash is a proprietary plugin for browsers, this plugin does enable a lot of rich browser content. But at the same time because it is proprietary it hinders web development by somewhat limiting what you can do and just how you can do things with web browser, websites, and some applications.
HTML5 is not proprietary and is also something that is included in the native code of browsers, websites, and other applications. This means it is not a plugin so it can work more fluidly with whatever software it is being used in as well as being able to allow developers to have more control over their work. Also just as Adobe Flash, HTML5 encompasses a lot more than just playing video content.
If you have not already looked it up I suggest you take a minute to have a read at the two links below as well as doing further research of your on.
Adobe Flash
HTML5
Flash is a proprietary plugin from Adobe that implements various advances animation and video features. For a long time it's been really the only reasonably standard way to do this sort of sophisticated content on the web. It however has a long history of security problems and other quality problems.
HTML5 is a newer version of various standards that go into basic web pages. It adds certain advanced animation, content, styling, and scripting features that bring a regular browser without a plugin closer to the rendering capability of flash. However, it's not really 100% there as there's some key missing features.
Apple refused to support flash in iphone because they're assholes basically and now Adobe is abandoning mobile flash entirely. So HTML5 is going to be the future even though it's not really 100% ready yet.
html5 is coming with browser but adobe u should install on browser and flash make browser runing heavier and take more cpu usage but html5 its designed to be simple and avoid great effect on cpu usage, which is better to us as android users that many of us have cpu problem.
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Jwtiyar said:
html5 is coming with browser but adobe u should install on browser and flash make browser runing heavier and take more cpu usage but html5 its designed to be simple and avoid great effect on cpu usage, which is better to us as android users that many of us have cpu problem.
Sent from my HTC Sensation.
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readams said:
Flash is a proprietary plugin from Adobe that implements various advances animation and video features. For a long time it's been really the only reasonably standard way to do this sort of sophisticated content on the web. It however has a long history of security problems and other quality problems.
HTML5 is a newer version of various standards that go into basic web pages. It adds certain advanced animation, content, styling, and scripting features that bring a regular browser without a plugin closer to the rendering capability of flash. However, it's not really 100% there as there's some key missing features.
Apple refused to support flash in iphone because they're assholes basically and now Adobe is abandoning mobile flash entirely. So HTML5 is going to be the future even though it's not really 100% ready yet.
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T-Macgnolia said:
Someone else may be able to give you a much more detailed explanation but I will try to make it simple. Adobe Flash is a proprietary plugin for browsers, this plugin does enable a lot of rich browser content. But at the same time because it is proprietary it hinders web development by somewhat limiting what you can do and just how you can do things with web browser, websites, and some applications.
HTML5 is not proprietary and is also something that is included in the native code of browsers, websites, and other applications. This means it is not a plugin so it can work more fluidly with whatever software it is being used in as well as being able to allow developers to have more control over their work. Also just as Adobe Flash, HTML5 encompasses a lot more than just playing video content.
If you have not already looked it up I suggest you take a minute to have a read at the two links below as well as doing further research of your on.
Adobe Flash
HTML5
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Thanks for the responses. I did look into it but I still couldn't get what the difference so that was why I asked here. Now I understand. Last question, with HTML5, will we be able to view flash videos?
afgwahid1994 said:
Thanks for the responses. I did look into it but I still couldn't get what the difference so that was why I asked here. Now I understand. Last question, with HTML5, will we be able to view flash videos?
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You can't view "flash videos" but there are HTML5 videos. The problem with this is that there's no standard video codec which is implemented in all HTML5 browsers which has limited adoption of HTML5 video. Also, there are still some major missing elements like fullscreen support that are starting to trickle in. The Onion for example is using HTML5 video on its site, however.
HTML5 and Flash are two completely different things, HTML5 is markup language you are writing webpages in, Flash on the other hand is a Rich Internet Application you can "fancy/enhance" your webpage with (yet you still need HTML to implement it) but:
Theres no difference in either of these by video managing, Adobe (originaly Macromedia) Flash is ONE OF MANY ways how to embeed video for online streaming, due to its popularity it became kind of standard (even for RIA), in HTML5 W3C came with own - sort of embeeding - of video formats for online streaming with a <video> tag (eventhough the initial purpose was completely different), both these solutions have same goal, embeed a video online, HTML5 has one, lets call it advantage, its a worldwide standard for everybody (W3C compliant), unlike Flash (RichInternetApplication), furthermore, some (we all know which) browser/s, are incompatible with it. So HTML5 embeeding and Flash embeeding is basically the same, Flash embeeds videos using action/lua scripts, whereas HTML5 embeeds videos using HTML tag, both of these video embeeding styles will die under the wheels of crossbrowse supported jQuery sooner or later anyway.
Analogy: Its like comparing Mercedes and Audi, they have different engines, but both have same purpose, to transport people from place A to place B, that exactly goes for Flash vs HTML5 video thing.
so far supported in HTML5 are H264 (MP4 format), WebM (VP8 format), OGG (Vorbis) with either ogg or aac audio

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