Folks from Technical University of Serres have developed an application called AirMediaPlayer as a fun networking project that allows users to stream media content from their iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to a Windows PC.
Erica Sadun from TUAW has already developed a application called AirPlayer that allows users to stream media content from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to a Mac.
The latest version of iOS, iOS 4.2.1 brought the ability to stream and watch videos and other digital media content from any iDevice to a television. While this was without doubt one of the coolest offerings in the new iOS software update, the AirPlay functionality was limited to users who own the latest Apple TV. This meant that unless you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and the Apple TV 2G, you cannot enjoy this service.
AirPlayer for Mac and AirMediaPlayer for Windows remove this restriction and allow users to stream media content to their Mac or Windows computer. Just like AirPlayer, AirMediaPlayer does not require users to jailbreak their iDevice.
To stream media content to your Windows computer, you need to follow things:
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It works on Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7.
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You need to download and install the .NET framework runtimes and associated files (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later) for AirMediaPlayer to work. You can download it from Microsoft’s website.
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Bonjour for Windows (note it comes bundled with iTunes, so you don’t need it if iTunes is already installed else you can download Bonjour Print Services for Windows).
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iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2.1.
Once installed, you will be able to stream digital media content from your iDevice to your Windows PC.
You can checkout the video demo of AirMediaPlayer in action:
As always, drop us a line to tell us how it goes in the comments section below.
[via Engadget]
I Just Can’t See How This Would Be Usefull? If You Wanna Stream A Movie, You Probably Have That Movie On That PC You Are Streaming It Too xD, Unless Your At A Freinds, I Cant See A Use For It Myself =\
If your ipad is sync to a laptop or something and you want to watch it in the living room, and if you have a home theater pc that may work.
I want the vise versa , play on pc and watch on iPad/iPhone ! What do u say guys !!
Well they do have streaming apps that work if you have WiFi. I know over 3g it starts to loose quality and such. My favorite is Orb.
it dosent work on windows 7
this is what i was waiting 4!!!
i have speakers in my bathroom connected to my pc, so when i want to take a shower i no longer need to set up a playlist on my pc, i can just play anything from my iphone and control it more freely.
gr8 work!
You take a shower with your iphone?!
I do all the time! Just put it in a ziplock bag!
Ya. Know apple and their “closed” policy , I dont think apple will provide such “luxurious” functions to us users. They want you to practically use their format of video decoding only: mov, 3gp etc. So, I bet we won’t be hearing officially from apple about streaming videos in avi or mkv or other formats not ” native ” to apple. And they may use the same old ” for security reasons wr are not providing those functionality (for Internet video streaming and other outside of apple streaming)” . This is how apple work their way to get you into their closed world where they can milk your money from you. So guys, don’t expect too high of apple giving you any freedom in functionality– THEY ARE CONTROL FREAKS , CONTROL FREAKS, I repeat : CONTROL FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*sigh* You people make my head hurt.
No apple arent control freaks, they are focused on ease of use and compatibility. Limiting function to THEIR devices and a few codec formats means they can ensure everything runs easily, and perfectly in the realm of situations they can control (ie, THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT). And thats really the best/only way to ensure use-friendly, bug free advancements in technology. That’s apples business model and it’s a good one. Now go cry somewhere else.
@ jesus
you can already watch whats on your pc on your iphone or ipad… called VNC apps. the best one for me so far is logmein ignition. Tried iTeleport, garbage! well, decent garbage. they’re in the app store but not cheap… logmein cost $30 bucks!! Thank god for installous! right jesus
It works for me! I have windows 7 64-bit. I used the second link(mediafire), works great.
i got an error that says AND I quote
“an error occured during initialization could not create neither quicktime object, nor a Windows media player object.
class not registered (exeption from HRESULT:0×80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTEREG))
I have the same error!
Can anybody help?
System is Win7 64bit