Were you able to find and play it on the ‘touch’ in the end?
No, but then again, I have managed without videos in my pocket up to now and I shall suffer on somehow.
Be careful with the program “You Tube Downloader” from Biennesoft. Even though the CNET site and some user reviews say that there is only a problem if you install the included toolbar, I did NOT install the toolbar and still got the malware. Malwarebytes, Norton, Windows Defender and my corporate AVG failed to detect or remove it. I ended up doing a lot of manual cleanup.
(I found this really surprising as the program itself worked great. If it was meant as a way to sneak malware on my machine I’m not sure why such a good program came with it.)
Hijacking somewhat, because we’ve got some Apple-savvy people hopefully already following this thread.
I just got an iphone 4, and I’ve been able to sync some MP4 videos over to it and play them without any problem. However…
I have a problem with stopping them - pausing the playback or returning to the list without using the home button to exit the ipod application entirely. I’ve seen references to just tapping the screen to get the playback controls after they disappear, or double-tapping the home button, but neither of those seem to work for me - single tapping on the screen has no effect, and double-tapping home either brings up a few shortcuts, or the entire home screen.
Can anybody suggest something? Thanks in advance.
chrisk, you’re just going to have to play with it. You need to tap the screen to get the playback items to pop up. If you’re tapping the screen and nothing’s happening, you’re not doing it right.
What happens when you’re watching a YouTube video via the YouTube app? Can you tap the screen to get the playback items up on that?
There are suprising number of different ways to single or double-tap. Different iPhone Apps appear to recognize different subsets of these gestures.
Okay, I’ve tried a few different things to get a response while the video is playing, (including swiping a finger across the screen and starting with two fingers together and then seperating them,) but here’s my understanding of a basic single tap:
- put fingertip at a point on the screen
- lightly press for perhaps a quarter of a second, trying not to move finger
- remove fingertip from screen.
I’ve been able to use this ‘tap’ to pick applications and videos, I can use it to get the ipod video player controls to go away earlier than they would on their own. But they don’t come back with another tap.
I can’t access youTube until I get to a wifi hotspot or until Bell turns on my service - there was a delay on account of moving my home number to the iphone.
I’m wondering if I’ll have to get the guy at the Bell storefront to show me how to do it when I go back to get the accident coverage plan and a carrying case.
Got it working now!
On a hunch, I looked up the instructions for how to completely power-down the iphone and power it up. (Actually, I looked for ‘hard reset’ instructions, but this seemed like the most promising equivalent.)
Tapping on the video brings the controls up now. It is not, could not possibly be anything I was doing differently, it just works now that I’ve gone through the power cycling. I do not know why, and I don’t care tremendously.
Seems like you have it under control. I’ll just point out the following:
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Most youtube > itunes utilities have an option to either download an ipod compatible video or else the highest quality video possible.
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Videos can be added to the itunes library but not by ipod compatible ( I know, right!).
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Any videos that make their way to the itunes library but not your ipod can be converted through the menu bar (advanced?).
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Personally I find Tooble useful for downloading youtube videos, and iSquint useful for converting torrent videos of various types (but not all).