Joost on the iPhone is ad-supported and free for users.
“Offering Joost on the iPhone and iPod touch is an important step for Joost as we endeavor to offer users premium entertainment, where they want it and when they want it,” said Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost, in the press release.
iPhone and iPod touch users can choose what to watch on Joost in a variety of ways:
• Browsing by category
• Selecting “Most Popular” videos
• Watching “Our Picks”
• Searching for a specific video
Joost offers more than 46,000 videos including 18,000 music videos, 400 TV series and 1,200 movies and short films. Joost is available globally, offering content from more than 300 partners worldwide. Content varies by geography due to individual agreements with copyright holders.
The free Joost app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch is available via iTunes App Store here (iTunes link).
Source: Joost
MacDailyNews Note: Tested with “The Fifth Element” (2:06:10) on iPhone 3G – it worked fine (just don’t leave the app during the movie or you’re screwed – you’ll have to start from the beginning again).
I just hope it’s better than their Mac Desktop version… which is laggy and glitchy on my shiny new macbook.
Am I missing something here? If Joost is Flash-based, then how exactly will this work on the iPhone. Are they having to re-encode their library to an iPhone compatible QT codec? If so, it speaks to power of the device, as transcoding 46,000 videos is no small task. If not, then there must be some sort of flash support embedded in the application itself, which would make one think there might be a back-door into flash support on the iPhone.
Just thinking out loud…
I downloaded it Saturday and it it’s okay, but, audio drops out and video freezes from time to time. Hopefully, future updates will address this and also add more features. It’s a good start though….
Flash?????
Yes?
No fast forward or reverse. And, it’s a bit buggy. Nice to see though.
@Willie G: More likely, they are doing on-the-fly transcoding on the server and caching the result, just like YouTube does.
Well..I got it…and it’s just as they say (not Joost)…actual users.
It’s buggy, audio drops out, it stops suddenly, and in general playback is a joke. Other than that…I really like it…
@Rob,
Actually, You Tube has already re-coded most of it’s library to h.264 QT. Put this link in your bookmark bar, and the next time you’re at youtube, click it. If there is a QT version for it (and more often than not there is) it will load it framed in the same youtube page.
It looks and sounds much better.
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wow, seriously?
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Cool, but will it output video thru the iPhone A/V cables I just bought?
Great, you just bought those cables and the next thing coming down from Apple will be wifi audio/video out. Which you port your iPhone audio/video to your Apple TV, therefore to your HDTV, OH NO , All you idiots that want your laptop synced to your HDTV will then complain that you have to throw out your cables because Apple supplied you progress again and then you will being doing it all wirelessly.
super buggy program. hope v2.0 is better than this. I think that the best implementation of video outside of youtube is the AP app. No jittery video after 15 seconds, no dropping, just news.
Anime? Does it include Case Closed, Mushi-Shi, and Shingu? That would be cool if it did. Comedy and sports sound cool too.
Joost? Seriously… they’re till around? Why would I need to install a 3rd party app in order to watch video? I can do it straight from Safari.
Joost won’t make it to the end of 2009.
Thoughts?
Mmmmmm……Milla Jovovich……
“Mull-tee-pass”
Joost website is terrible. Their player is so slow and buggy that it almost crashed my browser, definitely froze the system for 15 seconds, every time I wanted to change the timeline target. Lame. I hope their iPhone app is better.