emTube evolves into Open Video Hub
Do you remember emTube, one of the first YouTube video clients for S60? Well, it's back (after a fashion), in the form of Open Video Hub, available* for S60 3rd Edition and 5th Edition and with additional support for Daily Motion and Metacafe videos. It's also now Open Source, which is great news. The only catch is that, currently, Open Video Hub needs (*)signing for a user's phone - see the screenshots, press release snippet and links below.
"BLStream, an inspired leader in emerging visual technologies, usability and entertainment on portable devices, announces the release of its first Open Source project, Open Video Hub - a Symbian-based online video player. With support for most popular video sites, powerful and easy-to-use interface, and extensible architecture with additional support for video upload, Open Video Hub enables Symbian-based phones to play, download, store and share videos. Together with source codes, all previously developed plugins were made public, including YouTube, Daily Motion and Metacafe.
Additional features include accelerometer support for auto rotation of video, local caching for offline playback and support for other
video servers, with SDK available for 3rd party developers. More information to be found at www.openvideohub.com, as well as at Symbian Exchange & Exposition in London, October 27-28th, 2009, where the product will be showcased by BLStream's representatives."
Link: Open Video Hub web site for information and downloads
Required additional link: Symbian Signed Online
Published by Steve Litchfield at 11:00 UTC, October 28th
Categories: Software, Links of Interest
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition
News Discussion
EDIT: Cached files are given the same name; "tempvideo.flv", which is overwritten when viewing the next video. So if you want to save the video, yo'll have to re-name it (each time).
No rotating of the screen and I can't log into my youtube using my gmail account.
"no location header in redirection response! Check your proxy settings" is the error I get.
FAILURE: Submitted .sis file uses a UID that is not allocated to the account holder matching this email address.
Whatever that means!!
However, i think your signing app questions/issues are going to be better answered in darker corners of the interweb than AAS...
"no location header in redirection response! Check your proxy settings" is the error I get
"no location header in redirection response! Check your proxy settings" is the error I get[/quote]
You don't have to log in to watch, just select "set as default server", the top option. (you can change the default server if you wish later in Settings).
Installing it is very very easy. For grown ups.
EmTube is special because it allows downloads.
If you can't install it search the internet either for a developers certificate with the right amount of capabilities, plenty of websites offer them or hack your phone (you might also need to get a devcert to hack you phone depending on phone and firmware.)
Here is a link on how to get your Key and Cert so that you can sign your own files.
When you play the video, it caches on your phone in the root of the memory. Once the movie has cached (progress slider in front of the play slider), you can find it in the root. Rename it as i described in post #1.
And as has already been said, the free symbian signed service does not work with this one. Bah.
but there are a few issues.....
unable to play metacafe videos....simply says"video not available"
also the youtube playback is slightly jerky!!!!
Downloading extra software, registering, typing in IMEI#, copying, pasting, sending, blah blah blah... c'mon — give me a break. Really, somewhere in the 1670's I've been ready to do that, but the world has evolved from back then.
Give me a signed app, available in a App/Ovi store and join the 21st century!
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