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Airplay can be enabled with one line of code!

I don't understand all of the information in this artical, I am not a programmer or hard core user, but from what I am seeing is it should not take much to get internet video, and other video to airplay on to our big screens. If this is the case I am very excited about the future of :apple:tv.
 
Wow. Just one line of code. That's great news. Apple is probably going to make this private API public. I still think they limited the video part of it to just 3 apps in this initial rollout just to make it easier to iron out any bugs that might pop up and plan to open it up further when it's up to their standards. They've been working out bugs in the audio part for years with Airtunes and it shows which is probably why all apps already support audio Airplay.
 
oh man, that'd be awesome! All I want to do is stream files using VLC player. It would take forever to convert all my avi and mkv files to an apple specific format!!
 
powerman said:
I don't understand all of the information in this artical, I am not a programmer or hard core user, but from what I am seeing is it should not take much to get internet video, and other video to airplay on to our big screens. If this is the case I am very excited about the future of :apple:tv.
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The top part of the article was a bit confusing because that was before she figured out that it only required one line of code. She was going through a bunch of hacky methods to get it to work and it did work somewhat. But then near the bottom of the article there's an update explaining how she found out that instead of going the hacky method, all she had to do was just add one line of code to any application. She never needed to do any of that stuff she did at the top of the article. Apple seems to have made it nice and easy for developers. 🙂
 
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powerman said:
How hard is it to do this for the not so smart mac user? Also will this work off of a MBP?
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I don't think it's possible to have this easily enabled by users. The code has to be inserted into each app before it is compiled. Not sure if you can decompile individual apps and then recompile them with extra code. This also won't work on Mac, only on iOS devices that support Airplay.
 
well I've never really been interested in JB'ing my phone before, but that makes it very tempting...can't believe it doesnt do this out of the box, so to speak...
 
Airplay is working just like it does on iOS for videos for me on the computer side...Play them in iTunes and then select the Airplay device. I noticed that on Mac the icon changed from the speaker to the TV screen like it did on iOS, so I made sure that video works, and it definitely does.

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EDIT: Nevermind, I realized he asked about web videos, not stuff in iTunes. My bad.
 

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