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Video player that can play to apple tv while locked
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iOS's built-in video player does.
yeah but then you would have to convert everything....
yeah but then you would have to convert everything....
Only hardware decoded videos can be played the way you want. This limits the video formats to those natively supported by iOS. All other formats require software decoding and hence can not be run in the background.
As suggested above, you can also use apps like Plex or AirVideo HD. With those, a server on a PC performs transcoding and sends the content to your iOS device, which in turn can AirPlay the content in the background on your ATV.
Plex also supports something called Plex connect, which allows you to send the content from a server directly to ATV without going through an iDevice.
That's pretty much all options you have as far as I know.
Does it exist? Locking the device usally stops the video playback on apple tv.
It probably doesn't exist as network traffic stops when you put your iPhone/iPad/Mac to sleep.
The reason it stops playing is that it stops communicating with AppleTV. Even when AppleTV is streaming something by itself (e.g. AirPlaying a YouTube video) the device that initiated playback has to ping it once in a while to be able to determine progress and issue "stop" signal when video has ended.
It probably doesn't exist as network traffic stops when you put your iPhone/iPad/Mac to sleep.
The reason it stops playing is that it stops communicating with AppleTV. Even when AppleTV is streaming something by itself (e.g. AirPlaying a YouTube video) the device that initiated playback has to ping it once in a while to be able to determine progress and issue "stop" signal when video has ended.
thats not entirely true, since air video HD and mctube and 2 internet streaming apps i use, can stream from internet/pc to my iphone/ipad and stream to apple tv without problems- even when putting the device on standby.
thats not entirely true, since air video HD and mctube and 2 internet streaming apps i use, can stream from internet/pc to my iphone/ipad and stream to apple tv without problems- even when putting the device on standby.
As I stated two posts above, that only applies to iOS nativelly supported video formats.
Bah. I hope someone would make a tweak that allows locked devices to keep on playing.
Your only chance is :
- jailbraking your device (for the tweaks);
- convert all movies to h.264 or mpeg4 (iOS natively supported);
- use apps like Plex that can transcode on the fly from a server.
Makig tweaks on non-jailbroken idrvices are not very likely as we speak.
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Your only chance is :
- jailbraking your device (for the tweaks);
- convert all movies to h.264 or mpeg4 (iOS natively supported);
- use apps like Plex that can transcode on the fly from a server.
Makig tweaks on non-jailbroken idrvices are not very likely as we speak.
i have it jailbroken....but there is no tweak i can find that can help me.
i have it jailbroken....but there is no tweak i can find that can help me.
Aaah, that's another story. I can't help you with that.