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How to: Watch YouTube on your Excalibur

  • Artigo

For those of you who has a landscape Windows Mobile device such as the HTC Excalibur (or T-Mobile Dash) or the Motorola Q, you can watch your favourite YouTube movies (or any FLV movies) easily on your device using the Vixy TinyTube transcoding service.

All you have to do is to give it a YouTube URL such as : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK7hLToK-6o and choose the format you want the resulting video file to be and save it on your machine.

Copy the file to your Windows Mobile device and view it using "The Core Pocket Media Player" (TCPMP), IMHO a much more versatile video player (and FAST too) than Media Player. You can download it here.

Video quality is top notch as the transcoding service encodes the video file into the right resolution and bitrate for your phone, without needing to worry about whether to use VBR or CBR etc.

Kudos to the TCPMP and the Vixy guys for enriching my slacking lifestyle.

 ** UPDATE: TinyTube is another great web-based online transcoding service which is very cool too. Point your mobile web browser to https://tinytube.net/ and you have the option to download Google Videos, Break, FileCabi.net, metacafe, myspace and Veoh videos. (can't link to some of these as they're NSFW). They used to have YouTube support but not anymore, wonder what happened.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2006
    Here's a good video clip to have on your Windows Mobile devices, via Vixy .

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2007
    hey, the vixy and tinytube services are unrelated, but you made a single "vixy tinytube" link... to vixy.

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2007
    Whoops! My bad. thanks for letting me know allen. must be the lack of sleep :)

  • Anonymous
    January 05, 2007
    http://www.mymobileclips.com also allows you to watch videos from youtube, google video, metacafe, break, ifilm, and dailymotion on your mobile phone. Go to http://wap.mymobileclips.com on your phone for direct access

  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Who needs to convert DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, or whatever... Just watch movies online and be done with it...

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2010
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