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Air Video: stream your video collection to your iPhone, even over 3G
If you've ever wanted to watch your video library on your iPhone or iPod Touch, but you can't be bothered to convert files or transfer them to your device, your lazy butt is in luck. A new app called Air Video lets you stream video from your computer to your iPhone -- no fussing with iTunes required! It even works over 3G, after a little bit of extra configuration. Sure, there's a little bit of setup: you'll need to configure both the desktop Air Video Server app (for either Mac or Windows) and the iPhone app, but once that's done, it's easy streaming city for you, my friend. It doesn't even matter whether your video is in an iPhone-compatible format, thanks to Air Video's Live Conversion feature. All this glorious streaming will cost you $2.99 in the app store (or you can test out a free version that only shows a random portion of your video collection).
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsPaulFeb 17th 2010 4:47PM
I've been using Air Video for a few months, it's great. You can tell the server app which folders you want to have available, which is really nice if you have a large collection and only want to have the kid's stuff available for long car rides.
I highly recommend you convert your video and not use live-conversion. It works most of the time, but you can get random pauses.
mandoFeb 17th 2010 9:38PM
Depends, we just upgraded our upload pipe to 2 megs up and live conversion plays like butter....
Mike ComierFeb 18th 2010 2:55AM
Wow. This is fantastic App. I love it! This is the exact kind of simplicity I was looking for.
RyanFeb 18th 2010 11:34AM
I have been using air video for a long time. Once you get it setup, which is really easy, it works perfectly. The video is much clearer than other apps i've tried like orb. You should put it on your fastest computer and one that you don't care about leaving on. You can also have multiple people connected to your server (computer) and watching different videos.
RyanFeb 18th 2010 11:36AM
I have been using air video for a long time. Once you get it setup, which is really easy, it works perfectly. The video is much clearer than other apps i've tried like orb. You should put it on your fastest computer and one that you don't care about leaving on. You can also have multiple people connected to your server (computer) and watching different videos.