Flickr has released a new version of its mobile site that affords several new features, most notably the ability to stream video clips up to 90-seconds in length.
Video streaming will be initially available for only the iPhone and iPod Touch, with support for other handsets that use Webkit, Firefox Mobile, or Opera Mini to come. Previously, users could upload videos to Flickr from mobile devices but this is the first time they can actually watch them on their phones.
Mobile playback for Flickr is based on Yahoo’s Video Platform, which can serve content to various device types, screen sizes and codecs. In addition to video playback support, the new mobile site supports the favoriting of photos and videos, as well as the changing of photo permissions. Flickr doesn’t have a native application for iPhone or Android, so this mobile site is intended to be a universal access point for all device types.
Flickr really needs to make an iphone app already
Peter Epstein
http://www.thewebwar.com
About time … 1+ year after the iphone is release, flickr finally releases an iphone friend safari version!
It’s about time!
How are the videos going to work since the iPhone Safari browser doesn’t support Flash?
The iPhone can play H.264 video natively.
Doesn’t seem to work for me. I can only see the video thumbnail. I can’t click on it or make the video play.
Yeah I’m not able to make this work either. First gen iPhone.
Presumably it would launch the video in Mobile Safari’s quicktime player…
Why is techcrunch always so behind in the news? Video is a new feature, but the upgraded mobile Flickr site was released 2 months ago.
Into beta a couple months ago
Cool. It worked for me. I still don’t fully understand the 90 second time limit on the video posts.
The Flickr blog states that this new feature works only with video uploaded starting today, not video previously uploaded to Flickr. I uploaded a video and it worked for me.
That’s dumb.
YouTube can transcode it’s entire library of content to H.264 in under a year, but Flickr can’t do the same to it’s relatively small catalog of 90 second clips?
Ok, according to this thread they’re going to be transcoding old videos “as we can..”
Perhaps someday they can simplify their login process. So when I send photos to anyone over 40 they can actually login and see the pictures without calling me 14 times.
Send them a guest pass.
Flickr is very nice site for videos to see. On my website I have online video with YouTube and works very nice. Easy process to use. I know Yahoo has upgraded their search engine to include flickr. See my website just click on my name.
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just tried this, pretty cool
now all we need is them to transcode the old videos.
Hey Flickr
how about you give us slideshow feature on the mobile website?
Thats great for iPhone users, what about us BlackBerry users? We want a more robust flickr mobile experience!