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YouTube Available on Apple TV Now, iPhone June 29

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 9:05 AM - by

Apple's pre-launch iPhone surprises keep rolling out. On Wednesday the company announced that the combination iPod and smartphone will support YouTube when it ships on June 29. Apple TV owners, however, don't have to wait another week: Apple also announced that YouTube video content is now available on the home media device.

The iPhone will include an Apple-designed application that streams YouTube content over Wi-Fi and EDGE data networks. Apple TV users can browse and stream YouTube content, as well as log in to their YouTube account to view and save videos.

While it appears that the iPhone will ship with its YouTube viewer application, Apple TV owners will need to use the device's built-in software update feature before accessing the new content.

Apple and YouTube claim that over 10,000 videos have already been encoded in the H.264 file format necessary for viewing on the two devices. More videos will be available in the new format each week, and the entire YouTube library conversion should be completed this fall.

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Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:22 am

Can you access the H.264 versions without AppleTV or iPhone? If you can download them, then it's wide open with YouTube in iTunes, iPods, etc.

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Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:22 pm

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Can you access the H.264 versions without AppleTV or iPhone? If you can download them, then it's wide open with YouTube in iTunes, iPods, etc.

YouTube has said that ALL of their videos will be encoded in H.264. However, not all H.264 videos are compatible with the iPod. They must also be in MPEG4 format, if I recall correctly. For example, the H.264-encoded videos of the Mac-vs-PC ads on the Apple site are NOT compatible with the iPod 5.5G. One has to convert them using something like VisualHub.

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