That is How AirPlay Should Work [Video]

AirPlay arrived this week, perhaps not quite as ass-kickingly as we had hoped. Here’s a clip of Air Video, the wonderful stream-any-video-you-want-to-your-iPad app rigged up to beam video to an Apple TV. Basically, this can be how AirPlay should work.

And hopefully will, once Apple sorts out the relevant APIs. This demo was done with private ones, so the functionality won’t be inside the App Store’s Air Video anytime soon. As a consequence, the workflow is absolutely circuitous-the video’s being streamed from a computer to the iPad, encoded on the fly, and beamed from the iPad to the Apple TV-and it’s not clear if the iPad has quite what it takes on the subject of processing power to do the on-the-fly conversion itself, say with an app like VLC, and then stream that video to the ATV. However it all comes back to what we actually need here, and hopefully what Apple will let developers implement, after they iron things out a little more: use AirPlay to send any video we’re watching on our mobile devices, in any app, to our big screens. Here’s to hoping. [ AppAdvice ]

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