However, clicking the Menu button on your ATV remote and giving it another go will usually get things working as they should.Ħ. Your media should start streaming to your selected device, although as you can see from Sadun’s how-to video, sometimes it doesn’t work on the first try. Drag a video or audio file from anywhere (or type in a file path) and click the large Play button in the bottom right corner. Select the device you want to receive your media from the choices listed if you have only one, it will select it by default and you should see the name pop up like in the screenshot above.ĥ. When it’s ready, you’ll see ‘Searching’ change to the name of the first device found.Ĥ. The app will immediately start seeking out any compatible devices to stream to, which includes other Macs running Airplayer as well as the second-generation black Apple TV.
#Airflick apple tv 3 archive
Unzip the archive and drag the AirFlick program to your system’s Applications folder.ģ. The current version is 0.04 as of this writing.Ģ. First you’ll need to download AirFlick, a modest ad-supported 1MB alpha application that Sadun is offering free on her website for the rest of us to play with. It also doesn’t require iTunes - drag and drop a media file onto the AirFlick application and away you go. Now Sadun is back with AirFlick, which streams most any video or audio file from your Mac to the second-generation Apple TV, no jailbreaking required. Sadun’s first effort was Airplayer, which allowed compatible iOS apps (including Videos on the iPad and the iPod app on iPhone/iPod touch, or YouTube on all three) to stream video to the Mac, thanks to a small OS X application she created. That’s why we’ve got to give mad props to Erica Sadun, a TUAW blogger and app developer who has been locked away tinkering with Airplay lately and found a way to extend some of its limited capability. If you have been disappointed by how Apple has limited Airplay to their own iOS apps, you’re not alone.
#Airflick apple tv 3 mac os x
Enterprising developer Erica Sadun of TUAW fame has been reverse engineering Apple’s Airplay technology lately, and now she’s following up her successful Airplayer software for the Mac with AirFlick, a simple piece of Mac OS X software that streams any video or audio file to your second-generation Apple TV - no iTunes required.
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