Help Can't Find or Play Certain Videos on YouTube?

[spfulfill]

I was trying to find a video on YouTube on my Droid that I could easily find on my computer, but I could not get the video to come up in the YouTube search using my Droid. I tried this in the YouTube app and the browser, but I got the same results. For this particular search, my Droid came up with 4 results, and my computer 20 results. I've also done google searches for particular videos, only to get a "video not compatible with YouTube mobile" (or something like that). Are these 2 issues related? Is my search on my Droid only finding mobile-compatible videos?

 

[MysteryloverAnne]

I have noticed the same thing (usually from following links in Facebook or Twitter)...very odd indeed.

 

[GDroid]

Same here!

 

[spfulfill]

I happened to search for the same particular video (now a week later vs. 2 days after the video was uploaded), and it now comes up in my search. Seems very odd, but it seems like there was a delay for this video to appear in my search results on the Droid. The biggest question I have is this: What makes a video "not compatible" with YouTube's application or mobile site? Are there different video formats on YouTube?

 

[VarianceX77]

Not all videos are available for your android device. As the android userbase grows, the formatting and conversions will speed up.