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Originally Posted by teufelhunde

I'm content right now using YTP, but I feel this is just a backdoor fix. There should be a way to view streaming video without all the hassle, from any video site. I mean, how does the IPhone do it????

Anyway, not sure why the other sites don't work, but like I said, I'm content right now with YTP... so, thanks everybody for helping out.

YTpocket *is* a backdoor fix, specifically because PocketPC's, as a rule, don't have the correct hardware to support Flash technology.. or at least, not all of it. The reason Google Video or other sites won't work is because YTPocket is coded specifically for YouTube (also, VEOHPocket). Every once in a while, YouTube modifies their code, and it 'breaks' YTPocket - that's when the guy who runs the site (Andy, I think?) has to figure out what they did, and code around it.

In short - it's a translation tool. It works perfectly, in my opinion - you can even download content, which I've done liberally. Keep in mind that the site is run by one guy, and he does what he can to keep it up and running consistently.

The Iphone commercials annoy the bloody hell out of me, because all the things that they tout on those commercials are things we've been doing on the PocketPC platform for years. I will grant you that they can play YouTube videos natively, but yknow - big whoop. We've been emailing and web browsing and listening to music and taking calls on our converged devices for years. So yknow... bugger off, IPhone.

Anyhoo, yeah - YTPocket is cool.

Gare_NY