Flash Video players for Series 60 Devices (EmTube, MobiTubia, FLVPlayer, S60 Browser inline, Flash Lite 3.x app, etc)
August 25th, 2008 by Scott Janousek
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Loading ...Native Flash Video playback is a feature of Flash Lite 3.x for devices and, yes, there is support for both (FP 8-VP6 and FP 7-Spark codecs within Flash video for Flash Lite 3 devices supporting it.
Thus (if hadn’t already guessed), you can create your own video players (youtube player, etc) and/or tie into other online video services, just as you might on the desktop (with some exceptions imposed by today’s device constraints).
In any regard, it’s very cool … (although that Flash Lite 3 network access bug really makes takes the wind out of the sails of developers for networked based apps. Dear Nokia/Adobe, we’re still waiting for a firmware update to address this!).
On to the topic of this post … what you may not know that FLV support exists outside of Flash Lite 3.
Here are some native S60 apps you should know about (in case you hadn’t heard about them):
A few native Flash Video Players for Series 60
Some of these allow you to pull down clips, which is an easy and quick way to get reference .FLV’s down onto your S60 handset into physical storage (such as a memory card) … something you can’t readily do with Flash Lite as of right now.
Each one of these applications is free (for the most part).
1. EmTube - nice native S60 player. Perhaps my favorite. Unfortunately, the website appears to be down. You can still download it, however. Demos are available.
2. MobiTubia - very nice. carousel UI. Simple but effective player in landscape. Download, or view some demos.
3. FLVPlayer - I didn’t have much luck playing FLV’s with this app. Perhaps I had an older version (v1.0?), or perhaps it just plain doesn’t work. In any regard, I mention it here, just for the sake of getting feedback to the developer(s) and/or company. I was using a reported version, “1.0″. No luck with any sort of FLV I tried, even ones that worked in the previous players.
4. S60 embedded Video within browser
If native clients aren’t your thing, there’s always S60 browser support for Flash Lite 3 video on N95, E90 and other supported nseries devices.
Just open up your browser and away you go. It’s that easy.
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Adobe Media Player (for Mobile?)
First off … to my knowledge, this “product” in mobile form, does not exist yet. I am merely postulating, that Adobe may go there, eventually.
I’ve been using the Adobe Media Player (desktop only app, right now!) for getting access to some online video resources. Pretty slick AIR app.
Again, currently this is desktop only. However, one could easily imagine this running on a high end device at some point in the future … which would be very cool, indeed.
Open Screen Project and FLV
I imagine there is a ton going on behind the scenes right now.
To me, Flash Video has an excellent chance to actually dominate the device space as the standard for video across non-PC devices … just as it has on the desktop over the past few years on PCs via the Web.
If I were an OEM … and looking for a competitive edge in the video space, I’d definitely be looking at a ubiquitous, high quality data video format for video for my devices. FLV would definitely be top of my list, especially when the OSP makes it so much more attractive.
Anyways, just thoughts …
Have you built your own FLV Player with Flash Lite 3?
If you have a production quality S60 FLV player you’ve created with Flash Lite 3 , leave a note here. If there are enough posts, I’ll compile a list and review the applications submitted.
- Scott Janousek \m/
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August 29th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Someone needs to fix that networking thing if flash lite3 is gonna take off, it could really march forward seeing as the iphone does not have support for flash at all yet.
Would love to have a flash player viewer on my n95 for media.