Play Flash Video on iPhone using iMobileCinema

When you browse web page with embedded YouTube video using iPhone’s Safari, do you ever see a little blue cube (shown on your right)? Yes, the mobile Safari is not capable to play Flash, as well as, Flash video. So, when you come across any web page with flash video (e.g. YouTube video), Safari doesn’t show you the video but a little blue cube.

The recent release of iMobileCinema powers iPhone to playback flash video in Safari. iMobileCinema, which is still in beta, is a Safari plugin and only works on jailbreak iPhone. I have installed and tested on my iPhone with firmware 2.2. Yes, it does work on YouTube and Google Video. But for other websites with embedded YouTube videos, as I tested, it doesn’t work quite well. iMobileCinema detects the embedded video but you just can’t playback. As mentioned by the development team, iMobileCinema is still in beta. You’ll see better flash video support in coming official release.

To install iMobileCinema, you can add the source (http://d.imobilecinema.com) and download it via Cydia. For those who do not know how to add a source in Cydia, you can check out this post.

Note: iMobileCinema can only play flash-based video but not flash.

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1 rick December 26, 2008 at 5:05 pm: i got a quick question. Being that its a flash player, does it mean itll be able to hop on sites like stickam or other webcam based sites. I understand an iphone cant webcam but you can atleast hop in the chat and stuff. Would be fun =)

2 mahmoud March 17, 2009 at 1:53 am: its very good for u thanksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

3 turbo October 28, 2009 at 10:52 am: I tried downloading imobilecinema off Cydia, now instead of the blue cube I get the arrow (play) iwth a line through it, it still wont show the video,, ie, xtube..
what can I do..