by Timothy D Heard

Created on: October 21, 2008

How to watch Youtube videos on Windows Mobile

With modern cellular-phone internet capabilities, browsing the mobile web is, in many ways, identical to browsing the web on a desktop computer or laptop. There are only a few significant differences between the two operating systems. Depending on which website you choose to visit on a Windows Mobile OS, certain applications and video plug-ins may be required. Even so, with a little patience and some clever "keyword" searches through Google,all of these applications and plug-ins can be found and downloaded.

Watching Youtube videos on a Windows Mobile device is a relatively simple task once you have downloaded the necessary components. But locating these components is not so simple of a task. This article will save you a lot of time.

When Internet Explorer on your phone is opened, and you navigate via Google or URL address bar to the Youtube website, it appears to be fully functiuonal. The user is able to perform "keyword" searches to locate videos and is able to browse through the random videos shown on the initial page. But the problem arises when the user attempts to play or download a selected video. Once you have highlighted and pressed play, nothing happens. There is no available media player with Windows Mobile which is capable of playing or supporting these types of files(flash video files). Windows Media Player does not support them.

The first application you will need to download is the mobile version of Youtube. The file name is 'Skunkworks FlashVideoBundle.cab. This application will give you mobile access to Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion video, Megavideo, and a handfull of other mobile video sites. These other sites may require additional software applications and/or plug-ins in order to function.

Once you have the mobile version of Youtube downloaded, you will still require a compatible media player in order to view video content, as well as a flash video plug-in. The required media player is the 'Core TCPMP Player', and it's file name is TCPMP.SMARTPHONE.0.72RC1.cab. The file name for the flash video plug-in is TCPMPflvplugin-v0.4.2.cab. These files are dificult to locate and execute by performing a simple Google search and choosing a download site. There are many sites which offer these downloadable files, but many will not actually allow you to download them due to mobile technology restrictions and function technicalities.

The following is a step-by-step method of accomplishing a complete download

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