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AirPlay + iPhone 4 Video
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i have no problem playing videos from my iphone 4 to apple tv... the airplay button was hidden until you airplay music, switch to video and then go from there
If you are jail broke there is a new app that will support airplay camera roll videos to the new apple tv. It is called air home video from the big boss repo for $0.99 on Cydia.
I downloaded the "Air Home Video" app from cydia and what it does is install an app on your springboard. From there you can select the videos you want to watch in low/high quality, you hit play and they are automatically displayed on your ATV2
Dudes- patience, 3rd party airplay just isn't ready yet- but its coming. I'm sure Apple wanted to have it ready but couldn't get it right before the promised 4.2 Nov release. This has happened over and over with iOS features- we bitch and moan that a feature is not available, a jailbreak comes out and the dev community makes some magic happen but its a hack and not for the masses ( as it has for airplay), then a few months later Apple releases the official feature that works perfectly- and you forget about all the agonizing weeks you couldn't live without the feature, are happy for a brief moment, then move on to the next missing feature.
Its not that Apple wanted to limit airplay- the code just isn't ready- and they are not going to release anything half-a$$ed.
I'm starting to think Apple is getting over-stretched and cant juggle so many lines as well as we all would hope.
Its not that Apple wanted to limit airplay- the code just isn't ready- and they are not going to release anything half-a$$ed.
I'm starting to think Apple is getting over-stretched and cant juggle so many lines as well as we all would hope.
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Just got my ATV2 for xmas and was disapointed i couldn't play vids recorded on my IP4 using airplay, however!...... There is an awesome free app in the app store called quickplay for airplay that lets you play recorded vids over airplay, just launch the app an there are all your recorded vids waiting to be played, it's awesome! Here is the link via app shopper: http://appshopper.com/utilities/quickplay-for-airplay-for-iphone-recorded-videos
Thanks for posting that! You're a star!!
Gonna try it out now.
EDIT: OK tried it. It doesn't work, all I get is sound, no video streaming.
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Yeah me to. I jumped the gun and posted before trying. Hopefully the devs of this can get this working.
I know people don't like hearing this, but there are some nice jailbreak solutions for this.
AirVideoEnabler (let's some third party apps and safari send video)
Air Home Video (sends camera roll videos)
I will be jail breaking just for those two apps... Thanks, Apple.
AirVideoEnabler (let's some third party apps and safari send video)
Air Home Video (sends camera roll videos)
I will be jail breaking just for those two apps... Thanks, Apple.
Tried the free quickplay app and it works!! No problem at all. Iam using a ipod touch 4 and atv2. Quickplay compresses themovie before playing it.
Yes, update 1.1 fixed it.
Still it needs some work.
Compression of videos over a couple of minutes takes some time and if the phone's screen turns off the video pauses. Compression is also a bit too severe.
Anyone know why it needs to compress it in the first place?
Woah. This app was news to me! I can't believe this has made it onto the App Store. I grabbed it before it's pulled. I haven't tried it yet, how bad is the compression? Are the videos still HD?
It didn't look like it to me.
I tried one movie with the app last night and got the "this movie cannot be played message" after compression...
oh well.
redsn0w, here I come..