Monday, March 16, 2009

iPhone YouTube Application Guide

The iPhone You Tube Application lets you browse and view videos at the popular video sharing site YouTube.com. You can do this several ways: by using the Featured and Most Viewed lists, searching or viewing your video bookmarks or history. You can select from these options at the bottom of the screen. Press More to see other options, such as the Most Recently uploaded video, Top Rated videos. and your viewing history.


iPhone You Tube Featured


The Featured list shows picks from the You Tube editors. You can scroll up and down the list, and click on a video to view it.


iPhone You Tube Most Viewed


The Most Viewed list is similar, except that you can choose to see Today’s top videos, This Week’s top videos, of the All-time top videos.


The other screens show a similar list of videos. When viewing a video, you can tap the screen to see a timeline and some playback controls. These controls also have a bookmark button on the left and an email button on the right. Just tap the bookmark button to add the video to your bookmarks. The email button will open up the email application and allow you to send an email with a link to the video.


iPhone You Tube Video


After you have bookmarked a video, you can go to the Bookmarks screen to see them. There, you can delete videos with the Edit button and view information about them by clicking on the blue arrow button to the right. Clicking on any other part of the listing will play the video.


iPhone You Tube Bookmarks


The video information screen shows the number of views, rating, description, date, category and tags. You also get a Share button that opens up the Mail application. If you are looking at the information screen for a video that you haven’t bookmarked yet, you also get a Bookmark button.


iPhone You Tube Video Information


You also get the information screen when a video ends, or if you press the Done button while a video is playing. At the bottom of the information screen you will get a list of related videos, although this might take some time to load.


You can use the Search screen to search for videos by keyword.


iPhone You Tube Search


Not all of the vidoes at YouTube are available for iPhone viewing. Videos need to be converted to h264 format first, and many videos on YouTube are only in Flash video format.

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