AirPlayer Lets You Stream Video From iOS to Mac

Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:20

AirPlayer Lets You Stream Video From iOS to Mac

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Along with “multitasking”, Airplay is easily the best new feature of iOS 4.2. It lets you beam music and video from an iPhone or iPad to compatible speakers, Airport Expresses or AppleTVs. Best of all, it is easy and always works.

But what if you want to send some video to the big-screen iMac you use as a media center? Tough. Unless you grab Erica Sadun’s AirPlayer, a Mac App that turns your computer into one giant AppleTV.

It is ingeniously simple. The app runs a Bonjour server on the Mac which identifies

itself on the network as an AppleTV. Start it up and it shows up in your iDevice’s AirPlay list as a destination. Touch it and the video streams magically to your Mac.

Or it should. Although it works just fine in Sadun’s video demonstration, I could’t get any video to my iMac from the Video application. YouTube works great, though, starting up after a couple seconds of buffering. With TV shows and movies, however, all I get is a blank, black video player on my computer screen. Perhaps these big files are choking something.

Still, give it a try. AirPlayer is free (with ads), and adds useful, if niche, functionality to AirPlay: Imagine your friend comes over and wants to show you a quick clip of video. Now you don’t have to both stare at the tiny iPhone screen, and better, your friend doesn’t have to install anything.

Hacksugar: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback [Erica Sadun]

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Authors: Charlie Sorrel

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