YouTube blocking many music vids on iOS?

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Richard7666

50 posts

Geek

#74660 5-Jan-2011 01:56

Quick test. A friend sent this link http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=563okBxstw8, can anyone play it in iOS? I sure can't. Also, it doesn't even show in search results on the mobile site; only if I switch to the desktop version (in which case it won't play of course, being Flash)

I notice the same for a lot of music on YouTube on iOS. Can anyone confirm?

Ratfish

14 posts

Geek

#424130 5-Jan-2011 08:24

I have had this happen on a different video, but same apparent problem. Interesting.

kyhwana2

2566 posts

Uber Geek

#424141 5-Jan-2011 08:57

It's probably just that that video is only avaliable in flash and not HTML5.

Ratfish

14 posts

Geek

#424146 5-Jan-2011 09:11

Ah. What decides what format it's in? Age of video?

skewt

750 posts

Ultimate Geek

#424409 5-Jan-2011 20:57

I have noticed this before, if you go to the video directly it tells you it's not
Authorized for iPhone viewing, or something like that

TheLastLemming

99 posts

Master Geek

#424839 6-Jan-2011 23:53

I have noticed that some youtube videos are not found on on the iPhone. Was watching one that appeared to be the first part of 3 on my notebook and I couldn't find the same video in youtube on my iPhone

tardtasticx

3075 posts

Uber Geek

#424864 7-Jan-2011 02:19

Most music videos on Vivo channels are blocked for viewing on mobile devices, and some videos are blocked from being viewed outside of North America.

Richard7666

50 posts

Geek

#428861 19-Jan-2011 15:33

Interesting; even many community-uploaded (unauthorised) videos are blocked. There are literally millions of these available on the desktop version.