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Long taps

Posted Apr 20, 2011 6:16 UTC (Wed) by KSteffensen (subscriber, #68295)
In reply to: Long taps by mathstuf
Parent article: Xoom and the Android tablet experience

Youtube is not an app, it's content being shown in the browser.


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Long taps

Posted Apr 20, 2011 11:09 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I actually have a YouTube application which, AFAICT using a task killer, is launched for YouTube videos (even from the browser). Same with other webvideo and the generic "Streaming Multimedia" application I have.

My biggest gripe is that you can't background it to allow it to buffer the whole video. Seeking is also very flaky (often just tossing away all of the cache and then quitting). This is the primary reason I refuse to use flash on my main machines: mplayer just does so much better at everything than flash when it comes to video.

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