Youtube Full Quality Video Streaming over 3G
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 9:45PM One of the biggest problems with iOS devices iPhone & iPad is the quality of Youtube clips when viewed over a 3G connection. This isn't a bandwidth issue - it's just some weird arbitrary restriction.
Well it turns out that it doesn't have to be this way. I tried the new beta iframe embedding option on some of my old videos during my migration to squarespace and they now play at full quality over 3G.
It's clear that this is the way all things will go in time (Youtube advise that they will be switching across to this embedding method when they have ironed out any kinks) - but if you want a taste of the future - try visiting this site on your iPhone or iPad over a celluar connection and click on any of the videos on this page - the difference is clear.
UPDATE - November 2010
For some reason this has stopped working and I can no longer view any of my videos over 3G on my iPad. So to fix the problem of all my embedded videos just showing up as a black box, I've reposted the more recent videos using the normal Youtube embedding option. HD over 3G was good while it lasted - it just didn't last very long.
Reader Comments (1)
thanx for this info.its nice to hear tht Youtube Full Quality Video Streaming over 3G.you going good.keep working.