
217 - OPTIMIZE STREAMING WHEN EMBEDDING MULTIPLE YOUTUBE VIDEOS
HaCK
# 89
However, this does not work with all phones; for instance, it did not work on Internet Explorer for
Windows Mobile when tested here.
Also, the iPhone natively supports playback of YouTube videos. If you’re not lucky enough to own
an iPhone, an alternative for Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition–based phones is the program emTube,
which you can download at http://schierwagen.de/blog/support/. The Symbian operating system is
commonly used on Nokia, and also some other phones. Another option for watching YouTube videos
on Series 60 3rd Edition is the free video management and playback program MobiTubia available
from http://mobitubia.com.
HaCK 89:
Using a bit of your own JavaScript, improve the download speed
when embedding more than a single YouTube video on one page.
Sometimes it makes sense to include a couple of YouTube videos in a single blog post all at once—
for instance, when you’re writing a post entitled “My 10 favorite music videos on YouTube.” Although
YouTube already provides some embedding code that you can cut and paste, there’s one catch:
your visitors, when playing back a video you include on your site, may decide they’ve seen enough
of it; they can then hit the pause button on the YouTube player to start playing the next video in
line. ...