There are tons of tools that let you download videos off video sharing sites like Youtube. It’s always nice to be able to have the funniest or your favorite Youtube videos ready for playback on your mobile. While there are a few tools that let you convert FLV files to a mobile-friendly format (3GP or MP4), most of them come with a price and wouldn’t it be great if all you have to do is send it to your mobile and play it directly in the FLV format?
Mobitubia is a rich software client that lets you play Youtube and other FLV files on your S60 mobile phone. It features an excellent interface and apart from playing files stored in your phone’s memory or card you can directly watch Youtube videos from within the applications’ built in, user-friendly interface. You can search videos which are displayed along with the name, rating and duration and also view the ‘recently featured’ and ‘most popular’ videos on Youtube, virtually every feature that the Youtube site provides actually. (WARNING – watching videos online takes a lot of bandwidth!)
The application has been tested on Nokia N95 (classic and 8GB), N93, N82, E61, E61i, N75, E50, E51 and E65 only while it may function on other models as well. Looking at the list of supported models above it would generally function preferably on a high-end phone.
While the site does not look very convincing it does offer quite a bit of support with a forum, blog and a demo video of the application, and believe me the application is quite convincing if not for anything else!
You can also save clips directly from the Youtube website while watching them.
It does have a few limitations though, it only supports the Flash 7 format (normal Youtube format) and the video resolution cannot exceed 320*240 pixels. (Though I’ll have to add it does support other FLV formats and resolutions as well but the video jerks and gets distorted which is atleast something I think)
So what are you waiting for? Download the application from their home page. (Does not require driver signing too!)
P.S. I generally don’t talk about mobile related stuff much but the Mobitubia site hasn’t been SEO’d properly and if you Google something like ‘n95 flv player’ you just get a bunch of forum post that doesn’t direct you to the correct application. Hopefully this post will get into the result pages.
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Apr 30, 2008 at 18:38:11
Thanks for sharing mate. Google really was not from big help in this case for me, but StumbleUpon was.
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luq reply on April 30, 2008 6:52 pm:
yeah..google isnt much of help for a mobile flv player,i actually found this app by accident somewhere i dont even remember,thanks for commenting!
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May 14, 2008 at 23:43:30
There’s one for the iPod/iPhone that I believe is called iToner. It converts any flash video to an Apple friendly format so that you can drag it into iTunes. It was free last I checked, so it’s a great way to save money.
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luq reply on May 15, 2008 8:07 pm:
thanks for the info and the comment of course!
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Aug 9, 2008 at 16:08:06
Thank you for sharing. For now i need some information about converting flash file to FLV file. Do you have an information about that? Thank you
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