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Airport Express With Video?

KEL9000 said:
Streaming video over wifi would render it useless for all over tasks. A dedicated connection is more likely of a choice. Using wireless firewire you could stream video without using any bandwidth from your current network.

firewire + MPEG4 wireless firewire
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That's really a fantastic idea. New pwermacs and books featuring the new firewireless connections... streaming to a videoport express... hmm. Very exciting.

Maybe the year of HD after all?
 
BRAINWAVE!

Apple buys TiVo (that's the one more thing, but it is under wraps until then)

Apple releases TiVo with integrated WiFi, et all, thus becoming a Mac Mini TiVo Ultra Express! That'd be friggin awesome!
 
Mechcozmo said:
BRAINWAVE!

Apple buys TiVo (that's the one more thing, but it is under wraps until then)

Apple releases TiVo with integrated WiFi, et all, thus becoming a Mac Mini TiVo Ultra Express! That'd be friggin awesome!
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Sheesh, Apple could probably purchase microsoft if they did something like that.
 
Streaming is possible

hayesk said:
Not HD-content, but it should be able to stream non-HD video - that takes just a few MBps. I believe a DV stream from a digital camcorder is about 3 - 4 MBps if I remember correctly.
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I stream near HD quality video using an airport extreme network. Unfortunately its from a Windows Media Center box to an Xbox Media Center. Come on Apple, make a Mac Media Center!
 
I'll be happy as long as this is Macintosh only, I am getting pretty sick of everything being ported to windows. I brought a mac to use all their cool products, not buy a windows computer to use all the cool apple products. Even though i see this as a way to get windows users over, they might not be so tempted if they have all the gear (except the Apple computer and Mac OS X) we have.

Also the idea of network based storage for the new airport would be awesome, that way I can hold my many GB's of music / video on my iBook without having to be wired and plugged in. So maybe a firewire port could be added??
 
iMeowbot said:
I guess it's for people who can afford Macs and WiFi hubs but can't spare $30 for a DVD player. AirTunes makes some sense, there's smallish storage involved. But the TV thing is just weird, Apple aren't exactly shipping the word's largest hard drives in most of their machines.
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I would like to get rid of another box under the tv. It would be great to just have directv, and the receiver. Airtunes express hidden. Stream DVD's from my computer to the tv. That would be great!
 
chukronos said:
I would like to get rid of another box under the tv. It would be great to just have directv, and the receiver. Airtunes express hidden. Stream DVD's from my computer to the tv. That would be great!
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True, and your computer DVD player is so much more likely to play disks. I'm always fighting with my set top players.
 
I was poking around iLife and found this :
If you "show package contents" in the iDVD app you will see the following
/contents/plugins/RemoteControl.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/RemoteControl
/contents/plugins/WirelessVideoOutput.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/WirelessVideoOutput

I've asked this before with no answer.What do these Unix apps do ?
 
Peace said:
I was poking around iLife and found this :
If you "show package contents" in the iDVD app you will see the following
/contents/plugins/RemoteControl.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/RemoteControl
/contents/plugins/WirelessVideoOutput.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/WirelessVideoOutput

I've asked this before with no answer.What do these Unix apps do ?
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Good question. :)
 
Peace said:
I was poking around iLife and found this :
If you "show package contents" in the iDVD app you will see the following
/contents/plugins/RemoteControl.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/RemoteControl
/contents/plugins/WirelessVideoOutput.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/WirelessVideoOutput

I've asked this before with no answer.What do these Unix apps do ?
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No idea. Interesting find.
 
Peace said:
I was poking around iLife and found this :
If you "show package contents" in the iDVD app you will see the following
/contents/plugins/RemoteControl.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/RemoteControl
/contents/plugins/WirelessVideoOutput.oxygene/Contents/MacOS/WirelessVideoOutput

I've asked this before with no answer.What do these Unix apps do ?
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the only results I've found for 'oxygene & os x' on google is for a hotel management software. weird.
 
Well I figured out what the RemoteControl portion is.It's the tool used during previewing the project..It's listed in the help topics also.However,there is no reference to the WirelessVideoOutput portion in iDVD.Other than in the plugins directory.
 
cr2sh said:
That's really a fantastic idea. New pwermacs and books featuring the new firewireless connections... streaming to a videoport express... hmm. Very exciting.

Maybe the year of HD after all?
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I'm really curious to see how Apple uses H.264 in all this. the compressions capable with this spec are incredible, but aside from the HD Gallery on their website (and integration into Quicktime 7 and iMovie HD, etc.) I don't see many applications of the standard in the rest of Apple's lineup. it seems like a waste if all H.264 becomes is one of a hundred encoding options with no dedicated, hardware support. if they put an H.264 decoder in the AirPort (AirPort AV) base station, maybe a decoder in a future iPod AV (iPod HD?) and tie it all together with a nice software title to control all the streaming video, then we'll finally see what H.264 is capable of. :D

I have an overactive imagination, if nothing else.
 
If there is an update, I just hope it actually works.

The current AEX is notorious for dropping music continually unless the source and AEX are extremely close.
 
Well isn't it simple?

You have your Mac in one place.
With Front Row.

You have your tv in your living room.
With a remote control and Airport Express with Video.

Front Row gets TiVo capabilities.

You won't need a dedicated media recording harddrive anymore, and neiter a dedicated dvd player. You hire video over the internet and play it on your tv controlling it from the sofa.

Just figure out how economic this is.
 
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