YouTube coming to a TV near you…
Posted on | January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
seems like YouTube recently has been adding a special user-interface (larger fonts, less clutter) for access on TV-sets at youtube.com/tv. unfortunately this is only available for browsers on the Playstation3- or Wii-consoles, but as Google Blogoscoped points out, a simple change of your browser’s user-agent-string to Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00) or Opera/9.23 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Internet Channel/1.0; en) gets your sorted. I recommend using Firefox with the HeaderControl-plugin enabled. HeaderControl allows automatic switching of User-Agent per domain and spares you from doing so yourself (remark: HeaderControl doesn’t support current version 3.0.5 of Firefox, so you might need to install Nightly Tester Tools first). one major downside: youtube.com/tv doesn’t support those HD-videos recently popping up 
also, on a Mac Mini (or any Windows-PC with a remote-control, I guess) you’re much better off using Boxee, which has gone public recently and supports YouTube as well.
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January 16th, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
Bywifi Video Downloader is a free program for p2p accelerating, downloading and transcoding video stream from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. The website is http://www.bywifi.com/ . The program has some features:
1. P2P Accelerating：With P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), it speeds up downloading of video streaming. Its better algorithms have accelerated video downloading by more than 3–5 times.
2. Downloading: With automatically flash stream detection, video contents on many websites can be downloaded easily and free.
3. Transcoding: Videos can be transcoded into many formats supporting any mobile phones and PDAs, such as Nokia, iPhone, SamSung, iPad, iPod, and PSP.
Would you please try it and recommend it in your blog?
Thanks,
Rose