#Airflick apple tv 2 how to#

If your unit is jailbroken and you've installed AirVideoEnabler, the range of applications expands from iTunes and Video to a fair number of other apps that otherwise would not provide AirVideo video. The iOS device recognizes your Mac as a compatible player and offers to play back video from certain applications. You can instead begin playback of a video from within the AirVideo iphone app, then go to the mac serving up the stream, and type 'ps ax | grep ffmpeg', and grab the alphanumeric string following the -conversion-id flag. One extra little note: you don't have to necessarily download the unofficial Mac AirVideo client above. Paste that url into Erica Sadun's Airflick app and boom now your AppleTV can basically play any video you throw at it! Looking forward to someone streamlining the process into a neat little app.Inspect the stream by viewing the Movie Inspector (check the 'Window' menu for Quicktime).Start playback of a video using live conversion from within this unofficial client, it should hand off the streaming video to Quicktime X. Download the unofficial Mac AirVideo client here.

I'm testing out an mkv file right now, and it works like a charm! Ok, by doing this hack, you can stream ANY video format sitting on your Mac to your AppleTV.

#Airflick apple tv 2 how to#

How to Add Live Conversion to Erica Sadun's AirFlick App Below is a description and brief video explaining how it works. AirPlayer works by emulating an Apple TV using your Mac's built in Bonjour networking capabilities. Last week, I put together a related application called AirPlayer that allows you to stream video from your iPad using Apple's built in AirPlay services and demonstrated it on TUAW.

It's called AirFlick, and it's now available in alpha form for download and testing. If you own a Macintosh and an Apple TV, I have created a new tool that allows you to stream data outside of iTunes.