yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zinconnu:
Works perfectly on my WinMo 6.1, thanks!:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frmariam:
Nice to see a new version :)

Apart from Youtube all categories seem to be working correctly. Bellow are the issues I found:

1- Youtube doesn't seem to be working... I keep getting "KeyNotFoundException" error when I try to play or download any file.

2- In QVGA only one video is displayed per row (the size of the thumbnail is correct and it looks like 2 videos could fit in each row).

3- If you select the "blank" website (select one site and then select the "blank" site option) will result in a "NullReferenceException" and crash the program when you dismiss the error message.

Looking forward for complete Youtube support, multiple results pages... and what IMHO would be the most important change: a scripting implementation for website handling.

PS: If you consider the "download mp3" suggestion the FLV Extract sources should be of help (note this is not a converter... rather a tiny PC extractor for audio/video in the flv file which extracts these streams in the original form).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Did you really mean mp3? Or did you mean mp4?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I know what causes that error, but I'm not seeing it myself. I'll have to have another look at the code.

I'll try resizing the thumbnails to be slightly smaller in QVGA.

I was aware of that one, but it was 1:00AM and I just wanted to get the version out there and go to sleep. :)

I've been thinking about an approach where you could define Xpaths in a config file to locate the video urls and thumbnail urls. I have to figure out if I can make it generic enough.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schmeichler:
I guess he really meant mp3 - this way you can get mp3's from all the music-videos you can watch on youtube (once heard of pc soft doing this)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frmariam:
Thanks for the reply. The QVGA issue could be because of the new UI...

In version 0.2 the number of pixel next to the results box:

Left - 3px

Right - 2px

In version 0.3 the number of pixel next to the results box:

Left - 5px

Right - 5px
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garik.007:
SOS

bik2000

Dear Maestro! Thank you to the latest version of all sites work!

Another bad moment:

I have a task manager, which in the upper bar shows the icons of running programs.

So your program, starting with the first version, shown as an empty box, sometimes taking the battery image or other running program.

Can I fix it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] igoivo:
bik2000

Thank you very much for your nice application. Just two comments:

1) Your adds are not working, see the picture attached. (Which is not bad, actually, :D)

2) It would be nice to keep the last used settings (such as download folder, etc), at least during one session.

Good luck!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
1) The ad is probably returning a language based on what country you are in. So even though it looks like you are running in English, it could be the ad is in some other language.

2) If you go to the Options dialog from the Menu, you can save your preferred download folder.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] igoivo:
1) It's not "some other language" - it's just mistake in font coding (probably you don't use unicode).

2) Great! Indeed, you made it already!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JOSEunit10:
First of all, great app, thank you very much! ...

I'm having a lot of lag problems with coreplayer 1.3.6. Videos stop every few minutes.

What may be the best configuration for a HTC VIVA??. qvga

It only happens with streaming videos, with others stored in the SD is fine.

I'm using wifi and the connection is good.

__________________________________________________________________

This is my configuration:

(I use the search and found some tips but none worked)

buffering:

Normal buffer size = 512kb

Preload at underrun = 70%

Preload for audio = 64kb

Low delay streaming = unchecked

Microdive mode = unchecked

Microdrive buffer size = 16000kb

Microdrive starts at = 1472kb

Advanced:

Disable AVC deblocking filter = checked

Soft-drop tolerance 0.300

Video:

Video output = raw framebuffer (does not have QTV)

Smooth zoom = 50% only for

dither = unchecked

Everything else in default
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] recoh:
YouTube error

Shows "Server Error! (FFFFFFE1)" with links to YouTube in Omnia 2. The other channels work well. Any way around this?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ric69:
Just to say that I preferred this old version with columns - It was much finger friendly on HD2, but that's just my feeling :)

Keep up good work, thanks bik for sharing :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] recoh:
YouTube error

Shows "Server Error! (FFFFFFE1)" with links to YouTube in Omnia 2 (mVu Mobile Viewer - 1.0.6.16). The other channels work well. Any way around this?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
What video player are you using?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fighter_MA:
Thank you very much.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kombol55:
Hello my frend. I had the same server error ffffffe1 but reverted back to mvu 1.0.3.8 and everything is fine again. must be a bug in the new version. =_=
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Sounds like it's related to a change I made in 1.0.5.58 where I changed the URL shortener service that was being used for YouTube videos (YouTube's URLs are too long for CorePlayer to handle). At that time I moved from goo.gl to ur.ly because I was seeing similar issues with goo.gl. It may just be an issue with CorePlayer and URL shortener services. I'll have to take a look and see if I can do anything with it.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Actually it looks like http://ur.ly is down right now, so that would explain it. I'll have to fix that up by using a different service.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] brickman:
Any chance of making a non touchscreen version of this app?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Sorry, no. I looked into it at one point and there are too many UI differences that I would have to account for and redesign the app for. Things like buttons and menus aren't supported in non-touchscreen and would have to be replaced with something else.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
New Version - mVu - 1.0.7.32

I've just posted a new version (1.0.7.32) that fixes the issues with YouTube.

You can download the latest version here: http://bik2000.appspot.com.

The problem was caused by YouTube changing the encoding of the video URLs.

Streaming and downloading of YouTube videos should now work.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] midodiali:
I have Coreplayer

But When I read the video there

"Canot find the player"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
You need to make sure you have CorePlayer associated with Flash Video, MP4, MPG and M3U files.

Coreplayer -> Menu -> Tools -> Settings -> Select Page -> File Associations.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6700Freak:
Tube8 is down now with the latest 1.0.7.32

Will not return any search results for me.

Was working this morning but sometime during the day it quite working on my device (Verizon TP2).

I did several soft-resets thinking it was something on my device.

Anyone else seeing issues with Tube8?

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] F27:
Can the developer please make mVu compatible with Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 please! Every version I downloaded is made for a later version of windows mobile.

Pocket PC 2003 (and the SE version) is still the most popular one out there by far and they are the people that need YouTube streaming help the most because never devices have many more choices available to them.

Because YouTube keeps changing the way they operate every older program no longer works and I have tried everything! TCPMP, Coreplayer, Youtube Play, YTPocket, Vtap.com, mobytube.com NOTHING WORKS ANYMORE!!!

Damn no wonder Steve Jobs hates flash, if Opera Mini had HTML5 none of this would be a problem anymore. Adobe hasn't released anything since version 7 for pocket pc and everything needs 10 now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] altae:
I can confirm that Tube8 does not work anymore. I use the latest version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m0nkeyman:
Me too same here
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Have you tried installing the uncompressed version that's available at http://bik2000.appspot.com?

I thought CAB compression was the only issue for 2003. If not, what errors are you seeing?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Tube8 changed their website format. I've got it fixed already. I'll try to get the fix posted today.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] megatec45:
Tube8 not working, also last 2 versions are not finger friendly any more. Have to use the scroll bar to navigate
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kjhadfield:
i believe it wasnt working more than 2 updates ago but in fact since the new ui was updated. i posted then about the change in finger scrolling and now since then i use the scroll bar...

touch pro 2
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
New Version - mVu - 1.0.8.10

I have just posted a new version (1.0.8.10) to fix the issue with Tube8 searches.

You can get the latest version at http://bik2000.appspot.com.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] midodiali:
I could not make it work with CorePlayer and

I found the solution.

In CorePlayer will

Tools / Preferences / selection / file associations and

choose "select all"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] yoramk:
strange problem

I first installed version 106 and everything works fine

after installing 107 i couldn't send email from my phone

i restored my backup with 106 and all works ok

today after i installed 108 it happened again

so i had to restore again my system

the version is now 108 (in my sd card) but the registry is with 106

so the mail works fine

i think some change 107 and 108 made in registry is the cause

hope you understand my issue
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
The only changes in 1.0.7 and 1.0.8 were related to parsing websites (YouTube and Tube8). There were no other general changes in those versions. mVu does store some user settings in the registry, but there are no differences in that code between 1.0.6 and 1.0.8. So I can't really say what is happening in your case.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] yoramk:
strange problem

i got a massage that i don't have an internet access when i am trying to send mail or picture as both wifi and cellular connections are ok
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] F27:
Thanks for the reply bik2000,

The application installs fine using the uncompressed CAB but when I open it it says "This application (mVu.exe) requires a newer version of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework than the version installed on this device."

When I download the NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab it says its not a valid Windows CE setup file. So thats why I can't get it to work. Please can you help me?

I'm using a HP Ipaq hx2000 Intel PXA270 running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
You need to install .NET Compact 3.5 Redistributable before you install the Messages cab you mentioned above.

You can get it from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-3c6b-42f1-9fd9-0041345b3385&displaylang=en
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] F27:
Thanks bik2000, its working now. I havent needed to additionally install the NETCFv35.Messages.EN.wm.cab but should I and will it improve anything?

Some videos play choppy whislt others are very smooth, is that just down to the way they were originally encoded when put on youtube? Also I can only play videos in the 'medium' video setting, anything else and it wont load.

On a side note, is there anyway mVu can be used to play embedded flash content on webpages from a browser (just normal stuff with a play icon over it)? Like BBC iPlayer.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tarroyo:
Soon I'll be switching over to android, Will you be developing this app for any other platforms? As of yet CorePlayer has not been released yet for droid SOON though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I have played around with it on Android, just to see how hard it would be to do. Probably won't go anywhere until I get an Android device for myself and I'm not sure when that will be.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] telemarker:
mVu Mobile Viewer 1.0.8.10 you tube Could not read from site

Hi, i have a problem with all site download, when i try to save a clip, the pop up message appears: "Could not read from site" and "This video is not available in Standard (Old) format."

I try all format and nothing happens, it worked until last mount.

is there a solution?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] UncleBeer:
I've installed the latest version on my HD2, and use CorePlayer for playback (all extensions associated with CorePlayer). When I try to select a video from YouTube (or any site), a warning tells me "Could not read from site", although I have full connectivity, and the search went fine. When I dismiss this dialog, I see "This video is not available in Medium format. Please try one of the following formats: " with nothing listed. OK: I go to "format", choose any and all other formats: no joy.

Any suggestions? I'd very much like this to work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I'll have to investigate.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] telemarker:
Me too......
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I have a fix for the YouTube issue. Again, YouTube/Google changed a URL that I was using.

I'll try to get the fix posted as soon as possible.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] telemarker:
Many many thanks Bik2000 ;))
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
New Version - mVu - 1.0.9.2

I have just posted a new version (1.0.9.2) that fixes the issues with streaming and downloading YouTube videos.

You can get the latest version at http://bik2000.appspot.com.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] telemarker:
New version mVu 1.0.9

Wonderful.... now work perfect.... many many thanks... SPETTACOLO ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garik.007:
bik2000

Dear Maestro!

Can you add sites to view and download the video?

Grateful for the program!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
What sites are you looking for?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] garik.007:
Well, let's say, expand the range of adult sites!

Thank you!;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alt100y:
Connction fails

An excellent app but I keep getting this error message when attempting to play a YouTube file from a search page:

NETWORK NOT AVAILABLE (FFFFFFW8)

No problem with the internet connection; and no problem in performing the YouTube search.

Will appreciate your help.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tarroyo:
Lol that said add in eskimotube.com (requested this a month or 2 ago)

Also as the versions get higher and better, I'm still seeing the following bug being carried over.

The thumbnails don't always show up, Sometimes mayb 2 or 3? Other times 5 or 10? And the rest are black square boxes. Going back and search again doesn't fix this issue.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Is the problem with xhamster? I have noticed this before in mVu, but if you go to the actual site, some of the thumbnails are missing there too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] UncleBeer:
Working great now. Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tarroyo:
Pornhub, Youporn, College Humor, and even Youtube. The last two sites thumbnails came up on a second search.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wingzero:
Hey bik, great app. Any chance you could get this to work on Android devices? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 1milenia:
pornhub now gives error

(sequence contains no elements)

then when you hit ok another error

(this video is not available in

flv format. please try one

of the following formats )

any fix for this

it was fine before
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JeremyGuan:
this is what I've been missing since the first day switching from Winmo to Android Gingerbread..... any chances for developers to bring it along to Android OS? it would be freakingly awesome!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 1milenia:
any fix yet
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinephase:
Hi I'm running windows CE 6.0 (R3 I think) AFAIK my .NET is fine, but when I try to run the latest version down to "mVu Mobile Viewer - 1.0.4.44 - Feb. 17, 2011" I get "Error mvu.exe TypeLoadException at mvu.Program.Main()"

mVu Mobile Viewer - 1.0.4.44 - Feb. 17, 2011 works and searches fine, but when I try to play the video I get the 404 error message :/

I've been trying for a very long time to get youtube to play decently on my little tablet and the only way it's played at all is through skyfire which looks like utter crap and runs very slowly :(

Anyway, if there's any way I could get it to work I'd be quite happy about it :) even if that older version was changed to use URLs out of an ini file instead of whatever is in the .exe it would work (unless I'm missing something?)

Thanks, it's nice to see someone updating programs for a relatively obscure OS like WM/CE :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I'll have to investigate. I haven't had a chance to yet.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I have looked into it a little using an Android emulator, but since I don't own an Android device yet, I haven't spent a lot of time on it.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Just to clarify, which version gives you the exception and which version gives the 404 error?

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinephase:
sorry and I appreciate the quick reply :)

anything more recent than mVu Mobile Viewer - 1.0.4.44 - Feb. 17, 2011 gives the exception and it's mVu Mobile Viewer - 1.0.4.44 - Feb. 17, 2011 that gives the 404 error
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m0nkeyman:
Yesterday pornhub stopped working and now today tube8 not working as well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
New Version - mVu - 1.0.10.9

I have just posted a new version (1.0.10.9).

This version has the following changes:

Fixed Pornhub

Removed Tnaflix

Tube8 seems to be working again without any changes. I removed Tnaflix because the site now requires login to download videos.

You can download the latest version at http://bik2000.appspot.com.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stonyhawk:
few days ago i was watching pornhub. after few videos it wouldnt open any videos anymore and i got error: network not available!, this happenend after a playing few videos so not sure it has anything to do with mvuplayer.

I still have internet connection, but i saw my youtube also didnt work anymore....

anyone who know whats my problem?????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
Did you try resetting your connection or device and see if it started working again?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] stonyhawk:
ye i tried that already but didnt work..

maybe i go flash a new rom and look if that works
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michik78:
Hi, i'm new in this forum, i have a problem with the speed of the download, as maximum i can reach the 5 kbs (no matter if youtube, tube8, etc,.) and i have wifi 20 MB of speed in home, so does somebody has the same problem? does somebody knows how to fix the download speed? thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
The download speed is highly dependent on the device memory speed. Are you downloading to an SD Card or Main Memory? On my device it is significantly faster downloading to main memory.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michik78:
i download to the internal memory (16 gb) i use omnia i900 phone
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Nylo:
Just loaded this little gem on my HTC Tilt 2. Works perfectly with CorePlayer 1.3.6.

My only issue is how do I stop the advertising link that appears behind, at the top, the MVU logo. Its pretty much covered up. If clicked it takes you to an ad. I deleted the ad & ad2 temp files in the MVU folder, but they simply re-appear.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
You cannot stop the ads. The ads are there so that the developer (me!) can earn a few bucks off of the work I did. If you don't like the ads, you don't have to click them.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tozzy2:
To be honest, I've accidently clicked on the advert too. i doubt anyone would intentionally click on the ads! Therefore, I think it would be better for us to donate money to you and for you in some way to make it where ads are removed after we have donated. Maybe by putting in a serial number. That way, you will probably get more money for your work because just me alone, I'd probably buy your software for $15-20 but thing is, you really ought to port this to android. I've finally decided to sell my TG01 mainly because of the extremely poor battery life and if I was to purchase a phone running android, I'd quite happy buy your software.

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
I've thought about a serial number approach, but I'm not convinced that many people would actually pay. I'd also have to deal with pirating of the app.

I may port it to Android one day. Right now, I don't have an Android device, so it hasn't been a big priority for me. But I've definitely thought about it and have played around with the Android SDK a bit.

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] link68759:
Ad supported software is a gift from god; and $15-20 is a little bit pricey lol. I think most of the revenue from ad supported software is an accident... :) but a happy accident, since it's really no big deal for the user, and the developer gets some money out of it. My only complaint is that when the ad refreshes, the menus close.

He has a donate button on his website http://bik2000.appspot.com/ fyi
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tozzy2:
No, that's what I'd be willing to pay as that is what the software is worth to me (if I was still using the app but as I said I'm selling my TG01 so therefore will no longer be using MVU Viewer) but doesn't mean other people would have to pay that. Although i think there would have to be a minimum price of maybe $2-3 in order to get a unique serial code. Then, after serial is put in, ads are removed!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] link68759:
Just donate $15 to him if that's how much it's worth to you :D.

Hmm, It's true that most winmo software is over priced in general, though. Probably because of its similarity to desktop, developers that charge $20 for the desktop software just carry that price over to their mobile software. Well, mobile prices have been redefined by android/iOS. Actually, It's very very annoying to me that some devs (not on xda) still charge ~$20 for their winmo software... whereas everyone else is converting to freeware or even open source. Call me spoiled...

I have viewed the android / iOS / [a little of]WP7 markets; the norm is generally $0.99 for your average app, with $1.99-2.99 for some more quality stuff, and rare $5. The only people who ever charge $5+ are large companies, usually...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bik2000:
At one point, when I was considering whether to do ad-based or serial number based (or both), I was thinking of going the $0.99 route. Had I been able to come up with a good way to do the serial number thing that wouldn't immediately be cracked or shared, I probably would have tried that.

Based on some analytics, I believe I have somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 unique users. Even if a small portion would have been willing to pay $0.99 that would have been a better option than the ads. Keep in mind though that the ads available for WinMobile are not the same as those available for android or iOS, and I expect that if I was to port this to android, ad revenue would increase significantly even if the number of users stayed the same. And I would expect the number of users would increase too.

To be completely honest, the mVu Mobile Viewer website at http://bik2000.appspot.com makes more in ad revenue than the actual app does. Everytime I post an update there is a noticeable jump...so I should be posting more updates. :)

-- bik2000
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 1milenia:
the only one that works real good is youporn youtube