Viewing YouTube on Windows Mobile

There has been a lot of requests from forum members asking "How do I view YouTube content on my Tilt, Mogul, Touch, etc". There are several options to viewing YouTube on your device and below there are three options. If anyone has any additional sites that have proven useful for viewing YouTube content, please feel free to add it here. If you do add any information, please follow the format shown below, provide a description of the service and cost if any, include step by step down/installation/configuration instructions and verify that any hyperlink you reference is functioning.

YouTube Pocket

YouTube Pocket is a free PocketPC portal of YouTube that was created by a gentlemen named Anthony Capobianco. He runs the site free of charge to all users and is basically just a port of the full YouTube to PocketPC/Windows Mobile Devices. To use this site, you just need to point your Pocket Internet Explorer to www.ytpocket.com. In addition, you will need to install two applications for this site to work. The first is TCPMP Core Player. There are two versions of the Core Player, Touchscreen and Non-Touchscreen. You will also need to download a Flash Plugin. All of the instructions to set this up as well as the TCPMP Core Player are on the site. This application works pretty well and I used it for quite some time. Just remember that you have to point to www.ytpocket.com if you want to view the YouTube content.

HTC Streaming Media Player

Recently, YouTube had updated their site so that additional mobile devices could view their mobile website, so long as you had the appropriate media player. More recent HTC devices like the TyTN II and the Touch came with an application called HTC Streaming Media Player, which allowed users to view sites like YouTube. Unfortunately, a lot of the carrier branded devices did not include this application. Fortunately for us, the folks at www.xda-developers.com have extracted this application and created a .cab file out of it. You can find that file here. I have gotten this to work on the AT&T 8525 and the AT&T Tilt, but I can't verify that it works on other devices since I don't have them all. But this is worth a shot. Once installed, you can just goto http://m.youtube.com and view the website from here.

vTap

vTap is a solution created by Veveo. It aggregates several different video sites into one application. So instead of just viewing YouTube, you can also view ESPN, ABC News, CNN etc. on your device. This also a free service and can be downloaded from their website. The only thing I didn't like about this site is that it does not pull all of the YouTube content.