MxTube and its future.
In this post I plan to answer most of the commonly asked questions I have been receiving recently.
- At the moment, there is nothing I can do about downloads finishing prematurely. YouTube (Google) is closing the download connection on Wifi quality videos when on edge or another slow connection.
- I will not be adapting this application for any other movie playing sites. The only reason this works with YouTube is because mp4 versions of their videos are available via an xml based search which the YouTube app uses.
- Search results do not match those of YouTube.com exactly because not every youtube video has been converted to mp4. This is something I do not have control over.
- I will most likely not build this app for use in the app store being released by apple, I doubt apple will approve it for obvious reasons.
- Apps cannot just be placed into the iPod app. Not only do they have to be in the correct directory, but they need to be added to an SQLite3 db in the correct format. Also, upon syncing with iTunes, the database will be reset and the videos will disappear. If I can get videos to sync with iTunes you can expect this feature in a future version, but until then it doesn’t look like a possibility.
- Audio only download is not an option. This would require downloading the full video, stripping the video (Not possible on iPhone) and building an audio player inside of MxTube for playback.
- Negative comments and emails DO NOT help me make this app any better. If you have something negative to say about my application that is not constructive, don’t bother saying it at all.
Hope this clears up some confusion,
Max