You Tube on the HTC Advantage

Thanks to this plug-in I'm able to watch You Tube videos on the HTC Advantage. After all the flack that the iPhone got for not running flash video on Safari, you'd think that the browser on Windows Mobile supported it, right? Not so! There's an Adobe Flash Player plugin 7.0 for Pocket Internet Explorer, but I had absolutely no luck running any flash video in PIE using just that plug-in. To watch flash videos from Youtube on your HTC Advantage, you need two things:

1. You need to download and install the core pocket media player (TCPMP) from here

2. You need to download and install the Active-X plug-in for PIE which is included in the TCPMP plug-in download. This installs the Flash Player 7 plug-in for PIE.

3. You need to install the TCPMP flash plug-in from here. I learned the hard way that you need to install the plug-in in the same directory as the TCPMP program on your device.



To start watching flash video, go to the TCPMP directory on your device and run a program called youtubedownload.exe (see photo)



You need to enter the video id for the youtube video that you want to watch. The video ID is the part of the web address that comes after "watch?v=" part of the web address (URL) of your favorite youtube video. In the case of my example of the video "Burp", the video ID is A_t0DSxa-XU.



After the video is downloaded to a folder on your HTC Advantage, you then launch TCPMP and open the video file that you've downloaded.

If you are still in the mood to watch video after these umpteen steps, you should now be able to enjoy your video. You'll get the hang of it after the first time.