Looking for a mobile FLV player?

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 Screenshot N95


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!)

Main menu Youtube

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.

Mobitubia Saved Clip

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.

Save Youtube Clip Mobitubia

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)

Mobitubia Recently featured

So what are you waiting for? Download the application from their home page. (Signed)

Other Applications

Mobitubia is a sufficient application and does its job perfectly for managing and playing youtube videos, however if for some reason you would prefer a different application or can’t use Mobitubia here are some other similar applications:

emTube

emTube is a similar application that offers virtually the same features that Mobitubia does, however i’ve used both applications and Mobitubia seems to be more stable in terms of playback and compatibility.

CorePlayer Mobile (shareware)

CorePlayer is virtually the best mobile media solution available today. Apart from FLV files, Coreaplayer supports a range of other popular formats like divx, xvid, mpeg, etc. however the product is shareware and costs $30. Apart from symbian v3 devices it also works on Palm and Windows mobile as well.


updated – December 16th 2008

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  1. Watch Lost Season 3 April 30, 2008 6:38 pm

    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 30th, 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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  3. Jacques23 May 14, 2008 11:43 pm

    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 15th, 2008 8:07 pm:

    thanks for the info and the comment of course!

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  5. KabonFootprint August 9, 2008 4:08 pm

    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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  6. Danny Cooper October 21, 2008 6:36 pm

    My dad would buy a Nokia n95 just for that, no joke.

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  7. sky test October 27, 2008 12:17 pm

    Is this works in N96 to?
    can someone confirm this, because i want this feature?

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  8. luxury homes October 31, 2008 1:28 pm

    i hope i have my own mobile phone ( N95 ) and tested it on my own gadget :) .., thanks for information

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  9. mmo November 5, 2008 8:57 pm

    great info! thanks

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  10. Busby SEO Test December 2, 2008 2:14 pm

    I tested it in my N96. No work so far. I hope it not my mistake when installing.

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      luq reply on December 6th, 2008 6:29 pm:

    their official site states compatibility only upto the n95 8gb, a future build maybe developed that supports n96 as well.

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  11. moey December 21, 2008 12:23 pm

    heyy thanks for publishing this application i really needed it but the proplem is that when am trying to install it on my N95 it says certificate expired, is there anything i can do or i have to download from another website ??

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      luq reply on December 21st, 2008 3:11 pm:

    well, you can also try emtube, but if you want to get mobitubia to work, there are mobile communities where you can request a signed version of the app, there are other methods too to work around the certificate constriction, you can also try a different version of the application and hope for the best.

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  12. beloed January 10, 2009 4:44 am

    Oh I see, this aplication running on palm and windows mobile too.

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  13. Hemanth January 13, 2009 2:45 pm

    Thanks a lot for this. I’ve downloaded it and gonna put up in my N95 8GB and see how it’s going. I’ll post back the results soon.

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  18. Oi Torpedo January 23, 2009 6:58 pm

    This is very cool.. I will buy it too !!

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    I’m going to check it on my N95 right now! thank you for sharing.

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    I don’t know how to use flv player on my nokia n73

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    Nice post – I had this problem with my mobile and had to upgrade to the N95 so it would work.

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    great! is there any thing like that for Sony Ericsson as it not support .sis Applications :(

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  29. Audio Mastering February 21, 2009 10:54 pm

    Is there any player for samsung? I have searched a lot but I found nothing but all nokia applications :s

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    I have a FLV file and want to view it in my mobile. The model of my phone is W850i. Is there any mobile software to play flv file on my mobile or is there any software which will convert the flv file to a mobile video format?

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      luq reply on March 9th, 2009 4:42 pm:

    You can use Format factory to convert it to a mobile friendly format.

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    Can anyone please tell me a website from where i can download some good applications for Imate?

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    You can look for imate software at getjar:

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  34. pat testing March 16, 2009 7:34 pm

    This looks great – I have been looking for software that was going to help me do this!

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  35. shutters March 16, 2009 7:35 pm

    Do you have one for sony?

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  36. Job interviews March 17, 2009 5:02 pm

    Nice application. Saves a lot of headache of converting the flv files, besides flv files load up quickly.

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  37. Cisco Certifications March 18, 2009 11:44 am

    I’ve been looking for a FLV player and thankfully my search ends here, thanks for sharing.

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    wow finally i found the software for my mobile phone n73 that can support flv player.

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    aha… the best FLV player that i found .. :)
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  42. tukang nggame May 16, 2009 6:58 am

    What is FLV player

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  43. Melayu Boleh June 27, 2009 4:38 pm

    good… the best FLV player that i found
    thank you

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  44. Air Purifier June 30, 2009 8:57 pm

    Really the best FLV player that i found

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  45. Factory Service Manual August 4, 2009 2:51 am

    Gotta love the N95 few years back, I almost wanted to buy one until the new iPhone came out since they are cheaper. I wish the price of the N95 can be as cheap as the iphone.
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  46. manchester city August 9, 2009 9:50 pm

    This is so awesome!!!! Now I can watch Youtube videos on my N86!!! Thanks a lot!!!

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  47. Symbian Applications August 10, 2009 12:23 am

    I like my legendary N96. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

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  48. Antony Chris September 19, 2009 10:19 am

    This looks great – I have been looking for software that was going to help me do this!

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  50. shalesh May 16, 2010 2:09 pm

    Hi,
    Very useful article. Can anybody tell me about cheap mobiles which support online/offline youtube videos (specially flv files)…

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