Background Airplay Video?

[fabianjj]

Can anyone here tell me if it's possible to use Airplay on an iPad to run some video on a tv, while simultaneously using the iPad for some other app?

 

[jbro1999]

Also wondering!

 

[bthompson]

Yes it is. Doing it right now

 

[rasputinj]

Can anyone here tell me if it's possible to use Airplay on an iPad to run some video on a tv, while simultaneously using the iPad for some other app?

I also did it tonight worked very well as I was surfing the Internet.

 

[hitekalex]

To be clear, background AirPlay video only works with 1st-party Video app. It doesn't work with any 3rd-party video streaming programs (CNN, Bloomberg, etc).

I don't know whether Apple restricts 3rd-party apps from being able to stream AirPlay video in background. I had one 3rd-party app that was able to do this in 4.x, but background streaming seems to no longer work for any 3rd-party apps in 5.x

 

[fabianjj]

Only the Videos-app, huh? Not even the built-in Youtube-app?
That's kind of a bummer.

EDIT:
Just to be clear, if you start an app that supports video airplay, start playing something using Airplay, then press the home button to go out of the app, and then open the playback controls in the taskbar and push play, it will not resume the video in the background using Airplay?

 

[kellemar]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

To be clear, background AirPlay video only works with 1st-party Video app. It doesn't work with any 3rd-party video streaming programs (CNN, Bloomberg, etc).

I don't know whether Apple restricts 3rd-party apps from being able to stream AirPlay video in background. I had one 3rd-party app that was able to do this in 4.x, but background streaming seems to no longer work for any 3rd-party apps in 5.x

That's not true. I run Airvideo doing a background playback via AirPlay.

This is on 5.0.1

 

[icstoo]

Yep I can confirm that Air Video lets you stream movies from a computer through your iPad/iPhone onto AppleTV in the background. The only drawback to this is if you use another app with sound it can play through the AppleTV too... I was watching a movie the other night with the gf, went to play angry birds and all the sound played over the movie!

IC