Kinoma Notes

Kinoma Player cus­tomers were the first in the world to expe­ri­ence YouTube play­back on mobile. Even today, no other player matches Kinoma Player’s abil­ity to not only play YouTube videos, but to browse and search YouTube right within Kinoma Player.

Since YouTube finally has a mobile web site — m.youtube.com — that works with Web (the Palm OS web browser), we often get ques­tions about the dif­fer­ence between (1) Kinoma Player’s built-in sup­port for “real” YouTube, and (2) using Kinoma Player with m.youtube.com.

So with­out fur­ther adeiu…what the heck is the difference?

“Real” YouTube

Kinoma Player has excel­lent, native sup­port for “real” YouTube.

• Browse, search and play, all within Kinoma Player
• Full-quality video, intended for PC playback
• Works great if you have a solid 3G data connection
• Works on all devices sup­ported by Kinoma Player
• Can also enter URLs to web pages of spe­cific YouTube videos, and URLs to RSS feeds con­tain­ing YouTube videos

m.youtube.com

Kinoma Player also sup­ports 3GPP play­back, used by m.youtube.com.

• Browse and search in Web (Blazer) at m.youtube.com, then play in Kinoma Player
• Lower-quality 3GPP video, intended for play­back on low-end mobile phones
• Works great even if your data con­nec­tion is poor and/or run­ning slow
• Audio works on “phone” devices only (Palm Cen­tro, Palm Treo), since non-phone Palm devices don’t come with 3GPP audio codecs

If you have any other ques­tions about YouTube sup­port or any other topic, remem­ber that you’re always wel­come on our forum.

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