Sunday, May 15, 2011

AirPlayer for Mac OS X lets you stream videos from iOS to your Mac

Apple released Airplay technology with iOS 4.2 which allows you to broadcast your videos from iPhone/ iPad or even iTunes on Mac to Airplay enabled device (like iPad, Apple TV etc). It is called the Remote Audio Control Protocol which is an RTSP/RTP based protocol made by Apple IncMany people wished they could broadcast videos to their Mac which could make it easy to do presentations or photo shows etc.
Hacker Erica Sadun has made an app called AirPlayer which catch Airplay streams from iOS devices and show it on Mac screen. I had to enable "Always open in QuickTime Player" to make it work though. But its a great app indeed. Video running the same can be found on 9 to 5 mac site http://www.9to5mac.com/42335/airplay-is-now-working-to-the-mac/.
The app can be downloaded from http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/ .

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