Kinoma Notes

If you’re a Kinoma Player cus­tomer, you know that the main YouTube site is not mobile aware. This means that you can’t just go to the YouTube web page in Web (Blazer), find the video you’re look­ing for, and click “play”.

Worse, some­one at YouTube recently made the mis­guided choice to force Palm users to m.youtube.com, pre­vent­ing folks from just copy­ing and past­ing URLs from Web to Kinoma Player.

So, here are two alter­nate ways to get your YouTube URLs into Kinom Player with­out retyping.

Cre­ate a playlist

To cre­ate a playlist, copy and paste (i.e. don’t retype) a URL that works on your PC into a new text file. Save the text file as “My YouTube video.m3u” (or what­ever you’d like to call it) and put it on your SD card.

Then, go to the playlist tab in Kinoma Player (the 2nd tab from the right) and click on your playlist to play the YouTube video.

Cre­ate a “favorites” feed

Alter­na­tively, you can now sub­scribe to your YouTube favorites.

If you don’t already have a YouTube account, click Sign Up and open one. Then, just click the Favorite link below any video you want to be able to access using Kinoma Player.

To add your favorites to Kinoma Player, choose Open URL from the Media menu and book­mark http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/users/myuser­name/favorites?alt=rss, replac­ing “myuser­name” with your own YouTube username.

Now you have your own YouTube favorites feed that you can bring everywhere!

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