Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/23/apple_airplay_hackage/
Hackers get to work with Apple's AirPlay
Stream punks
Posted in Hardware, 23rd December 2010 11:22 GMT
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It's been a busy week or so for coders hacking AirPlay, Apple's media streaming protocol [1]. We've seen code posted to allow streaming from Macs to Apple TVs, from iPads to Linux boxes running XBMC, and now we have an iPad-to-Windows link enabled.
The app you need is AirMediaPlayer, with runs under Windows XP, Vista and 7, and it requires Apple's freely available implementation of its zero-config tool, Bonjour.
Like AirFlick on the Mac - for Mac-to-Apple TV - and AirPlayer (iOS to Mac), AirMediaPlayer uses Bonjour to advertise the host machine as an Apple TV. Your iOS 4 device will then stream the video or music you're playing in it to the PC.
You can download AirMediaPlayer from website Technology and Science [2].
AirPlayer and AirFlick can be downloaded from developer Erica Sadun's site [3].
AirFlick was quickly tweaked to allow not solely Apple-sanctioned formats to be played on the Apple TV. By chucking a Mac version of AirVideo into the mix you can transcode video from, say, AVI XviD to H.264.
Erick van Rijk then used VLC to transcode DVDs in real time [4], and by tweaking the DVD code just slightly you can screencast your Mac's display [5] to your telly via the Apple TV. ®
Links
- http://www.apple.com/itunes/airplay/
- http://apogeorgiadis.blogspot.com/p/airmediaplayer-for-windows_22.html
- http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/
- http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/20/airflick-turns-macintosh-into-an-airplay-data-server/
- http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/22/screencast-your-mac-to-apple-tv-over-airplay/