YouTube and Safari [Archive]

nakile

01-27-2008, 03:25 PM

From what I have read, if your browsing a webpage on the iPod touch and come across a link to a YouTube video, you can click on the link and Safari will launch the video in the YouTube viewer. Is this true?

This is kind of important to me. I have a lot of YouTube subscriptions. Being able to go to YouTube.com in Safari, view my subscriptions, and launch the YouTube viewer from there would make everything so much more easy.

Thanks.

Grandicornis

01-27-2008, 03:57 PM

Thats correct. When you browse to a page with an imbedded YouTube video you see a message that you need to have Flash installed to view it. Clicking on that message brings up the YouTube player and loads that video.

nakile

01-27-2008, 05:25 PM

Thats correct. When you browse to a page with an imbedded YouTube video you see a message that you need to have Flash installed to view it. Clicking on that message brings up the YouTube player and loads that video.
So I can view the comments on a video and all that right on YouTube.com, then watch it?

Great. Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

Grandicornis

01-27-2008, 06:30 PM

Sorry, but I don't think you can view the comments on the video. I've looked around a bit and dont see how to do it. After the video is done it brings up a list of related videos as usual but the comments that are normally below the video are not there.

nakile

01-27-2008, 07:07 PM

Sorry, but I don't think you can view the comments on the video. I've looked around a bit and dont see how to do it. After the video is done it brings up a list of related videos as usual but the comments that are normally below the video are not there.
Hmm.

Couldn't I go to YouTube.com itself and be able to view the comments? But then when I want to watch the video couldn't I click on "You need to have Flash installed" on the YouTube page where the video would normally be to view it?

Grandicornis

01-27-2008, 07:20 PM

Yes,that would work just fine. Not very elegant but it will work.

nakile

01-27-2008, 10:26 PM

Yes,that would work just fine. Not very elegant but it will work.
Going directly to YouTube.com and then clicking on the video to launch it sounds a lot simpler than using the YouTube viewer directly and not be able to view subscriptions or comments.

Thanks for your help.