AirFlick Offers Video Streaming from Mac to Apple TV over AirPlay
As followup to the reverse engineering of AirPlay, Erica Sadun has released an alpha version of a new tool called AirFlick. The previous tool allowed iOS 4.2 users to stream video to their Mac.
This new tool called AirFlick now allows Mac users to stream video content to their Apple TVs. This includes both locally saved files as well as streaming from files hosted on the internet.
It also allows you to open videos located on the Internet by pasting a URL and clicking the play button. I was able to watch a number of Internet Archive (archive.org) mp4 videos on a big screen TV by browsing that website, selecting URLs, and opening them with AirFlick.
The software is still in an early alpha state. Still, it's an interesting proof of concept and hopefully someone will pick it up and run with it, or maybe Apple will provide this functionality themselves in the future.Top Rated Comments
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It means you can stream from other apps and play non-iTunes compatible media.
No it doesn't - according to the article, only ATV-compatible H.264 video is supported. Now, if AirFlick indeed transcoded non-H.264 video into compatible format and streamed it via AirPlay - that would actually be useful.
Don't get me wrong: my hat is off to the hackers and devs. But a fully integrated solution would be nice.
At least we know great things are possible in the IOS MacOS universe.
I'm confused...i thought Macs can already stream to Apple TV (even 1st gen ATVs) via iTunes? What's the big news here - other than streaming from non-local sources?
Yea, I'm wondering the same thing. I thought the whole point of the ATV was to stream content from your Mac.
I'm confused...i thought Macs can already stream to Apple TV (even 1st gen ATVs) via iTunes? What's the big news here - other than streaming from non-local sources?
It means you can stream from other apps and play non-iTunes compatible media.
I'm confused...i thought Macs can already stream to Apple TV (even 1st gen ATVs) via iTunes? What's the big news here - other than streaming from non-local sources?
Yeah... I don't get it? I was streaming The Social Network via Airplay to my 2nd generation Apple TV this weekend. It was an .mp4 file. Unless this is referring to .avi files I thought ATVs had that already???
I'm confused...i thought Macs can already stream to Apple TV (even 1st gen ATVs) via iTunes? What's the big news here - other than streaming from non-local sources?
Currently, the AppleTV will only play iTunes content streamed from a Mac. This hack opens up any video content to stream from a Mac to the AppleTV.
its using Airplay\AirVideo
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