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Bruce and Mac screenshots: Please test

Erica Sadun — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:46:56 +0000

Bruce 0.4 has screen shot functionality. Why? This is about my updating Whiteboard for iPad to work with Apple TV. Before I start putting the code into the Whiteboard base, I want to make sure it operates properly. The slider is from 1 seconds (left) to 10 seconds(right). I’m thinking of about 4 seconds so I don’t overwhelm the connection with too much data. Please let me know what time interval works best for you.

Please test Bruce

Erica Sadun — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:41:07 +0000

If you have a Mac and an Apple TV 2, would you please test Bruce? Bruce is a testbed that I’ve been using to develop standalone AirPlay libraries but this morning I think I accidentally made Bruce useful as-is.

If you like this date/time/weather functionality, is it something you’d like to see me wrap into AirFlick?

Speaking of AirFlick, I’m seriously considering breaking the app in two — one to primarily to watch videos, the other geared more towards presentations and slide shows. What do you think?

Twitcasting and UStream with AirFlick

Erica Sadun — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:36:54 +0000

The open source twttr.mediaTypes project at github now allows you to send twitcasting stream URLs to AirFlick, courtesy of developer Norio Nomura, who has also created a way to send UStream videos to AirFlick. Cool stuff.

AirPlay talk tonight

Erica Sadun — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:01:19 +0000

I’m giving a presentation to CocoaHeads Denver tonight: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 19:00 at Double Encore, 2040 Larimer Street, Denver, CO 80205

AirPlayer 0.25 and Leopard Users

Erica Sadun — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:59:11 +0000

Please re-download the 0.25 update by hand. For some reason, it got compiled 10.6 only. Sorry.

Request for Leopard Users

Erica Sadun — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:32:17 +0000

Can you test out the latest AirFlick 0.42 build and report back? (Don’t forget: You need an Apple TV 2, enable AirPlay and don’t use a password from the ATV) Thanks! Update: Try version 0.43 instead. It uses port 8199 instead and hopefully won’t conflict and isn’t a restricted port for most people. (Check your firewall settings.) Update 2: Looks like mongoose is working on intel but not ppc yet… Trying to do some lipo love Update 3: Please try 0.44 Update 4: I’ve got confirmation from users (thanks guys!) on an i386 and on PPC. Anyone else? (Thanks to Gary McMahon and everyone else who pitched in.)

AirFlick, Apple TV, and AirPlay

Erica Sadun — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:31:23 +0000

When using AirFlick, make sure you have enabled AirPlay on your Apple TV without a password. You can check whether AirPlay services are active by using the free Bonjour Browser utility from Tildesoft. Make sure you see _airplay._tcp. listed. One user writes: ” I have used Bonjour Browser and I see “_appletv-v2._tcp. - 1″ and listed under _sleep-proxy._udp. - 1 is Apple TV” That’s not going to work. Unless you see _airplay._tcp., you will not have access to your Apple TV from AirFlick. Disabling your firewalls can also help.

Latest AirPlayer

Erica Sadun — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:15:29 +0000

The new version of AirPlayer finally fixes a bug that had the device not properly displaying the current playback position. (Turns out I accidentally set the content length to zero in the reply message, so my position was being ignored.)

At a request from Dirk from Germany, I’ve added a bunch of new QuickTime features to AirPlayer. You can now control playback from your device.Getting your device to update to the latest QuickTime position is less immediate because I had to limit how often I queried QuickTime using osascript, which is slow and expensive.Know now that I have not yet implemented the QuickTime bit that respects the “Always open in full screen” menu preference and all QuickTime videos attempt to open in full screen right now.

If you give the new QuickTime features a try , please let me know how they work for you.

Dear Erica: Can I watch Twit.tv with AirFlick and AppleTV?

Erica Sadun — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:57:26 +0000

Yes.

Enter the following into the command line:

ffmpeg -i http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/low -f mpegts -acodec libfaac -ab 96k -vcodec libx264 -vpre medium -b 1024 -threads 2 pipe:1 | mediastreamsegmenter -f /tmp/airplay -D

Wait about 30 seconds until /tmp/airplay has 3 fileSequence files and a prog_index file. Then paste the following into AirFlick: http://YOUR-IP-ADDRESS/prog_index.m3u8, obviously using a real IP address for your local system.

AirPlayer update

Erica Sadun — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:33:25 +0000

AirPlayer received a massive redesign and lots of new features. You can now choose whether the app opens connections full screen or not, whether to always bypass to QuickTime, forwards/backwards time skip (5/30 seconds), image rotation, and saving media locally. This latter is a really simple way to send over screen shots from your iPhone to your Mac without having to tether.