Saturday, November 27, 2010

AirPlay and iOS 4.2 combine for Air Video TV playback demonstration

This morning, after working out AirPlay video streaming details with Steven Troughton Smith, I decided to give Matej Knopp a call. His name may not ring a bell, but he's the developer of the awesome Air Video application. Air Video, which sells on the App Store for just three dollars, allows you to watch nearly any video from your home computer.

Instead of syncing movies to your iPad or iPhone, and filling up your limited memory, it leverages the ffmpeg library to let you convert and stream those videos instead, on demand. It's a tremendous application and a favorite among TUAW staffers.

Air Video, with its always-available access to streaming entertainment, is the app that we hands-down felt was the most perfect match to Apple's new AirPlay Video technology -- and one that was most let down by Apple's audio-only limitations for third party applications. So I called up Knopp and asked if he'd build me a one-off custom version of Air Video to showcase what AirPlay Video could have been. Not for the App Store, obviously -- it's using private APIs -- but to see what it would look like.

He was happy to help. Read on to discover how well it worked and watch it in action.

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AirPlay and iOS 4.2 combine for Air Video TV playback demonstration originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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