“Real” YouTube vs. m.youtube.com
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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