Apple’s much anticipated AirPlay service disappointed a lot of users when it shipped without API access for third-party apps. Currently you can only send video from iOS devices out to the Apple TV from Apple-blessed apps like Video and YouTube. This hasn’t stopped hackers from trying to figure out how to share more video across that AirPlay connection, and they have gone and done it. Above, you can see a jailbreak app called AirVideoEnabler in action, that will push out video from any iOS app (including Safari) to the Apple TV. The app was supposed to be for sale in the Cydia store but the creator, TUAW commenter Zone-MR, says he has decided to make it free instead. You can add it from his repository which is:

https://cydia.zone-mr.net

Of course you need to be running a jailbroken iOS device, which means it can’t really be a mainstream patch in terms of fixing Apple’s AirPlay deficiencies. This solution of course won’t help you if you wanted to stream video to anything other than an Apple TV either. But it still is a sharp demonstration of what the hacker community can do. Maybe Apple will see fit to bless the AirPlay APIs for use in App Store apps soon.

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