The new YouTube app is actually better - the old one only played globally accessible videos (e.g. if a music video were only available in certain countries, you wouldn’t be able to watch it, even if you were in one of those countries). The new one seems to recognise where you are and allows you to watch such videos.
I think ultimately Jobs will be proved correct (if not decisive by his very actions). Bulling for HTML 5 was ballsy, and difficult for users, but he could get away with it for obvious reasons, and will not tie the medium to a proprietary standard. Like some systems he knew.
You could argue that he has already been proved right considering that Adobe has abandoned development of Flash for android and other mobile platforms.
The lack of Flash on iOS devices was never the handicap that people claimed.
Same deal, iOS6/iPad 3, and if I clicked those links it’d automatically open the YouTube app and play fine.
However, I had to uninstall the app to get it to launch in safari by default. Big red banner that said this content wouldn’t play on this device. Bullshit!
I copied the link and pasted it in Crome and the Mercury browser for the iPad, and a big, beautiful YouTube page loaded, and played the vid without a hitch.
Must be an iOS/Safari hitch.
I get a www. Should I get am m?
Are you using safari?
Yes, but based on comments here I just downloaded chrome. It does open an m version and the videos play fine. problem solved - Thanks!
But I’m still curious what is wrong with my safari.
Did you do a reset after you removed the YouTube app that you were using? Maybe there was some interaction between that app and safari that didn’t clear when you removed the app.
Ok, just cleared cookies from settings, now safari’s playing ball again. Must’ve had a bum cookie or something. Thanks all for the input.
Gonna try this, didn’t think to do that, thanks! :smack:
If it’s any consolation, on my Android tablet YouTube videos occasionally will say something like “The content owner has not made this video available on mobile.” Which is puzzling, I wonder if making a video available on mobile is opt-in or opt-out, and why wouldn’t you want it available on mobile?
I rarely post to YouTube, but I have a Vimeo Plus account that I upload to regularly, and under the video settings, there’s a checkbox to compress a mobile version as well.
My only guess why it’s not checked on by default, is that Vimeo (or YouTube), while huge, doesn’t have infinite server space. 