Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011

skellener said:
Yeah, you'd think streaming stuff you shot yourself would stream - no brainer. Well hopefully that's coming like Steve said.

And while you are at it Apple, how about giving Mac OS X some streaming love? Why can't I throw my desktop screen over to an AppleTV and play anything I can see on my Mac screen over too it? (or at least let the Mac see it as an external monitor or something) Add that and I'll buy an AppleTV tomorrow!!! :D
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Another upgrade they need to implement:

I can watch a movie on an iphone and send just the audio to an airport express. But I can't do the same with the same movie in itunes on my macbook. I could use this feature if it was available.

Still, I'm glad to see things coming along. I tried some third party software on the mac for sending audio and in order to keep audio in sync with video I would need another application and it just seems too cumbersome to worry about. I'll wait for Apple to implement it.
 
Apple Corps said:
If it is one line of code it should have come with the release or by now. So what might be the issue?
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Bug fixes and improvements before "opening up the barn door" perhaps? It has been implemented very well but every now and then the Airplay icon disappears, photo slideshows lock up for a few seconds, and other little bugs that often come with a 1.0 release. I guess it would be easier to narrow down and fix initial problems with a more limited release on just a couple of their own apps than trying to determine the cause with tens of thousands of different apps and web video sources.
 
alent1234 said:
unless you have an ancient TV, most TV's these days will play media directly from a USB stick. same with playstation and x-box.

what is the point of buying an Apple TV when you can just buy a USB stick?
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What's the point in buying anything wireless? Why bother with wifi when you can plug everything into your router? Why try to print wirelessly when you can go plug in that usb cable. As a matter of fact, I hope your landline phone (if you have one) is plugged into a wall when you make your next phone call.

I used my Apple TV over the Thanksgiving weekend. We had a ton of guests. One relative brought over his ipod touch having no idea of Airplay. He had 3 movies on there. I'm like let me see your ipod. Within seconds his movie was playing on my big TV. He was like...how did you do that? That was awesome.

Kan-O-Z
 
citi said:
Set up home sharing on your mini and the apple tv will see all of your media connected through itunes on your apple tv. It's pretty easy. You can't stream video natively to the iPad without programs like airvideo or zumocast. Air Video is by far the best implementation
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Tsunami911 said:
Download Zumocast (Audio and Video) or Plex (Audio, Video and Pictures in iPhoto or Aperture library) on both you Mini and iOS devices and you are golden.
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Thanks citi and Tsunami911. I have more questions, but I posted them in the forums so as not to derail this thread.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1057483/
 
markcres said:
...I wonder how far I would get if I sent him an email saying "Hey Steve, I just spent a wad of hard-earned cash on an iPad after hearing about Airprint and yet your latest iOS update seems to have make it a crippled and useless 'feature' that is nothing like the hype you stirred up. When are you going to apologise and keep your ****ing promise...dude"?
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Yeah, that sort of approach usually elicits responses from people.

KAN-O-Z said:
I used my AppleTV over the thanksgiving weekend. We had a ton of guests. One relative brought over his iPod Touch having no idea of AirPlay. He had 3 movies on there. I'm like let me see your iPod. Within seconds his movie was playing on my big TV. He was like...how did you do that? That was awesome.
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Color me confused. I thought the iOS couldn't do that yet--audio from movies, but not video too, which you seem to be saying you achieved. Straighten me out!

AND this last question: Have you noticed that almost all of Steve Jobs' replies deal with issues of broad, intense user concerns? It's logical to conclude 1) he picks topics that are important to address, and 2) does so knowing his response will reach a broad swath of the market. But how does he know which emailers will go ahead and post his replies on a forum? I wonder how many replies have been made that we know nothing about--little Timmy in Keokuk is pleased with the answer (or not) but hasn't thought to mention it to anyone else. What do you think?
 
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Games?

How cool would it be to air play games from your iPhone to Apple TV, and use the iPhone as the controller. Just picked up all my apple products this weekend, except the phone! MAC user for life now! :apple:
 
skellener said:
And while you are at it Apple, how about giving Mac OS X some streaming love? Why can't I throw my desktop screen over to an AppleTV and play anything I can see on my Mac screen over too it? (or at least let the Mac see it as an external monitor or something) Add that and I'll buy an AppleTV tomorrow!!! :D
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Doesn't AirPlay work by more or less sending the original (compressed) data to the remote device, and then having the remote device decode and play? I thought that was why AirTunes (now part of AirPlay) had virtually no delay, while third-party hacks like AirFoil did (because they had to send the raw, final uncompressed data).

I suspect that's why your idea isn't as easy as it seems, although if it were allowed on the Apple TV, you could do-it-yourself with VNC (and AirFoil for sound). ;)
 
This whole Airplay thing puzzles me. When the first Touch came out and couldn't send tunes to airexpress that seemed so lame. It was such a basic and obvious function I could not imagine why it was not there. Remote seemed a silly kludge (which I now enjoy). Now the inability to send recently shot iPhone videos directly to iTV seems another basic failure. Mystifying!
 
RMo said:
Doesn't AirPlay work by more or less sending the original (compressed) data to the remote device, and then having the remote device decode and play? I thought that was why AirTunes (now part of AirPlay) had virtually no delay, while third-party hacks like AirFoil did (because they had to send the raw, final uncompressed data).

I suspect that's why your idea isn't as easy as it seems, although if it were allowed on the Apple TV, you could do-it-yourself with VNC (and AirFoil for sound). ;)
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No, it still takes awhile to buffer, no matter what you're streaming it from, but iTunes knows where the Airport is, without any lag, so it can sync multiple Expresses, or sync the video with the audio.

I've been waiting for iTunes to be able to send the audio from a video to an express for what, like 7 years now? My iPad will do it wonderfully, still not iTunes, though...
 
Why I can't I output video from *ALL* of my apps to Airplay or TV directly????

There are so many times when I want to demo the iPhone or Apps on a larger screen. This is bs.

Apple are you listening????
 
I'm not surprised you find it funny. I mean, you're rather naive if you think that the CEO of what is the most valuable tech company in the world should just answer any e-mail he or she is sent. How many e-mails has Zuckerberg answered recently? Ballmer? Those two jokers at RIM? Of course, if Jobs didn't answer any of his e-mail, you'd complain about that too, so it's not even worth trying I guess.

markcres said:
I find it funny how Steve only bothers to come off his cloud and reply to emails written in an over-the-top grovelling/brown-nosing/praising style.

I wonder how far I would get if I sent him an email saying "Hey Steve, I just spent a wad of hard-earned cash on an iPad after hearing about Airprint and yet your latest iOS update seems to have make it a crippled and useless 'feature' that is nothing like the hype you stirred up. When are you going to apologise and keep your ****ing promise...dude"?
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Perspective said:
I'm not surprised you find it funny. I mean, you're rather naive if you think that the CEO of what is the most valuable tech company in the world should just answer any e-mail he or she is sent. How many e-mails has Zuckerberg answered recently? Ballmer? Those two jokers at RIM? Of course, if Jobs didn't answer any of his e-mail, you'd complain about that too, so it's not even worth trying I guess.
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Oh dear..try reading AND understanding what I said!

I wasn't suggesting he replies to ALL emails (in fact he should hire people to do the job properly)..my point was that he ONLY seems to reply to emails that are almost apologetic in their sycophancy, brown-nosing and praising of him and Apple...presumably as it massages his enormous ego !!
 
Anyone notice...

Did anyone notice that Steve wrote 'Airplay' instead of 'AirPlay' in his reply.

hmmmm...
 
Not getting to worked up over this. When Steve or apple gives a timeframe for a release, the release usually happens at the end of that window. When he says "hopefully 2011", then im thinking at best december. If that. So I wouldnt hold my breath.
 
One of Apple's marketing "sound bites" is along the lines that Macs "just work". The clear inference is seamless integration and user simplicity.

Now I'm reading pages of posts about jail breaks and hack apps and inserting code.

That is not the Apple I have known.
 
Apple Corps said:
One of Apple's marketing "sound bites" is along the lines that Macs "just work". The clear inference is seamless integration and user simplicity.

Now I'm reading pages of posts about jail breaks and hack apps and inserting code.

That is not the Apple I have known.
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Agree! All of my :apple: products "just work." New Printer (HP ePrint series, $69 at Best Buy) just works too...... with AirPrint. Everything I own is a new Apple device to me except the iPhone. Don't think I will ever buy a PC again (bad enough I have been working with them for 13yrs, and don't see that changing)
 
Real?

Where is the proof that it's actually steve jobs replying? If you think of how secretive Apple usually is about the future, then this screen shot looks just plain bogus....
 
Bevz said:
Because apple are doing their usual trick and drip feeding us features! :(
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Bevz - agree - not sure if it is planned to generate a never ending hype or they just don't have the staff to pull all of this off in a more coherent fashion.
 
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