Thread: Introduction to Opera Mobile Labs for N9
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2012-08-06 , 18:04
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Originally Posted by ohrn View Post
Youtube serves different content to Opera and the native browser.

The page Opera receives contains RTSP video links that will be opened in the default video player on the phone.

The native browser receives a different page and the video player is part of the browser itself. I'm guessing it's HTML5 video but I have not investigated further.

In short, there is nothing to be done about it.

/ohrn
Ohrn, if we used a custom UA with Opera that identified our device as a Nokia N9, (1) would Youtube serve the HTML 5 version of the content to our devices and (2) would our phones recognize the content and access the HTML player to play it?

Also, I was wondering if a third party app like Cutetube, which accesses the HTML browser, could be cause for hope that Opera could use some similar strategy to create a solution?

True to my word, I have been using Opera as my default browser and I am quite impressed. My use case involves a lot of reading and browsing, so Opera's strengths are helpful, like the find-on-page function and the select a word and search function. Good work.
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Last edited by Hacker; 2012-08-06 at 18:06.