Saturday, November 27, 2010

AirVideoEnabler hack brings AirPlay video to the rest of your apps

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Apple's new AirPlay video streaming functionality is great... unless
you want to use it in a non-Apple app. For whatever reason, Apple is
restricting AirPlay video to just its first party apps right now, and
not even all of those (Safari is left out, for instance).
Interestingly, Apple actually built the functionality in, it's just
not enabled. Thanks to some "spelunking" work by TUAW's Erica Sadun,
it was discovered that a single line of code is all that's necessary
to spread the feature to any app that relies on Apple's MediaPlayer
framework, including VLC, AirVideo, and even Safari. Now Zone-MR has
built a hack called AirVideoEnabler and put it on Cydia, allowing you
to bring this functionality to your own jailbroken iPad. For the hack-
averse, let's hope Apple catches up in functionality soon. Check out a
video of AirVideoEnabler and Erica's original hack in action after the
break.

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