Play with your phone, upload from your phone
Kinoma Player was the first YouTube player for mobile (and still the only one to play Flash Video). But did you know that you already have a YouTube uploader, too?
With a Palm Treo and Kinoma Player, you can shoot, upload and play YouTube video all with the same device. Nice!
First, get yourself a YouTube account. Then go to My Mobile Profile to specify your mobile phone number and carrier.
In return, YouTube will tell you where to send your mobile video in order to upload it.
Today Verizon Wireless announced that Verizon customers can upload their videos to YouTube using the easy-to-remember MMS number 98823 (“YTUBE”). Customers of other carriers just send their video to a special email address, as in the Sprint example above.
Tip: If try to send a video larger than 512 KB with your MMS client (“Messaging” on a Palm OS Treo), you’ll get a “Video Too Large” error. The workaround I found is to send your video as an attachment to the same address. Even as an attachment it’ll be refused if it’s over 2 MB, which is about 40 seconds of video on my Treo 700.
Finally, below is a link to a video I shot with my Treo of a friend’s daughter doing an interpretive piece on her feelings about her new room in their new house. Critics are divided on the performance, most leaning toward “cute”, some toward “super-cute”, and others “too much sugar”.
- The “my new room” dance (video shot/uploaded with Treo 700p)