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iPhone Tip: How to play Google Video on your iPhone

Mon Jul 2, 2007 5:45 PM EDT
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By ScooterDMan
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Google Video streams content via Flash, which is not supported by the iPhone. However, there is a simple workaround for playing Google Videos on your iPhone. Simply choose a video you'd like to watch (be sure it is a Google Video, and not a Youtube video, which is also integrated into the search now), and follow these simple steps:

1. Scroll over to the right side of the page.
2. Next to the "Download" button, activate the drop-down menu, and choose "Video iPod/Sony PSP."
3. Click "Download" and you will get some drop down text that says: "If the download does not start automatically, right-click this link and choose "Save As"."
4. Click on the link it provides, and your video will start to load.
5. If it does not begin playing automatically, click the Play button on the iPod.

Voila.

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ScooterDMan

Now if there were only a filesystem on the iPhone, so we could save these scrumptous videos for offline viewing...

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Mon Jul 2, 2007 6:13 PM EDT
ScooterDMan

Looks like Engadget has also made this little discovery.

  • 1 vote
Reply#2 - Mon Jul 2, 2007 6:40 PM EDT
Kyle Baxter

Hmm, nice work around. Thanks for the tip!

  • 1 vote
Reply#3 - Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:18 PM EDT
ScooterDMan

Not a prob. I discovered it a diner here a few nights ago. Someone I was eating with had never seen the Paul Simon video for You Can Call Me Al, starring Chevy Chase.

I searched Youtube, but to no avail. So on a whim, I tried Google Video and was surprised when it started to stream (over Edge, no less).

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#3.1 - Mon Jul 2, 2007 10:59 PM EDT
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A. H. Min

Wonderful job!

  • 2 votes
Reply#4 - Wed Jul 4, 2007 10:40 AM EDT
rnary

this is somewhat of a tangent (or a lot) but i was reading an article on yahoo about people dissecting the iphone. they've figured out how to use it on other networks other than AT&T and all sorts of other cool stuff apple didn't intend.

    Reply#5 - Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:02 AM EDT
    poojakashyapDeleted
    nearing

    This dosn't work anymore?

    There doesn't seem to be any 'download' option.

    • 1 vote
    Reply#7 - Mon Mar 9, 2009 12:29 AM EDT
    Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

    Great tip, tnx, clipped

    • 1 vote
    Reply#8 - Mon Mar 9, 2009 12:42 AM EDT
    nearing

    Did you try it, Aunk? I can't get it to work.

    • 1 vote
    #8.1 - Mon Mar 9, 2009 12:48 AM EDT
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