Playing Youtube Videos on your Nseries.

Until Nokia’s adds Flash Lite 3 to the S60 browser or if you have an N800 or N810 internet tablet, you’ll have to wait a little bit more to full enjoy Youtube.  Sure, currently there are many methods that work like Nokia’s own built-in Video Centre or m.vtap.com in your mobile browser, but most of them require streaming of the media which might not be a good thing when you don’t have coverage like in an airplane or some remote corner of the world. The best solution that works best for me right now is one that doesn’t require data usage and which allows me to keep the video and access it anytime from the gallery. Here are the steps in getting your vids on your Nserie and the great thing is that it’s completely FREE! Just the way we prefer things here at The Nokia Guide.

Step 1: Go to Youtube and get the link of the video you want.  Youtube doesn’t allow you to right-click and save their videos so you’ll need a special service for this.

Step 2: Go here to the eRightSoft’s KeepVid service that allows you to extract the Flash video. When you enter the link, make sure to choose Youtube on the right. As you can see this service is very handy and can work with many flash-based sites. Press “Download” and after a few seconds a menu will pop-up with a link to download the video.  Give the file an appropriate name followed by .flv. For example: Nokia.flv At this point you can actually playback this Flash Video on your PC with various software programs on the PC, I recommend FLV Player.  But we don’t want to stop here, as we want the video to be playable with your Nseries built-in Real Player. When the full version of Flash Lite 3 becomes available you can actually play these FLV files without converting them, but because Real Player can’t play FLV files,  so we’ll have to convert them to something suitable.

Step 3: Conveniently enough the program required to convert Youtube FLV into a format playable on the Nseries is not only free, but also from the same site. It’s called SUPER and can be downloaded here. Now use the SUPER converter to convert your video and send them to your phone. There are many configurations that should work, but I found that the following does the trick pretty nicely: “MP4” in the output container, “H.263” in the Output video codec , “AAC” in the Output Audio Codec, Video scale: 352x288, Video bitrate: 1248 and Audio bitrate: 192. Try to experiment with the different video formats and see what works best for you. I would also like to point out that MP4:H264/AVC should work on the N93, N95, and N82. Did this work for you? Do you have any recommended video configurations?

Comments

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[Vaibhav Sharma]

I had another solution in mind, which required no converting, nothing!
http://vaibhavsharma.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/full-youtube-on-your-s60-v3-device/

Works well for small-medium sized vids!