custom Bonjour AirPlay service which allows you to stream video from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad with AirPlay to your Mac OS system exactly like you would do to your Apple TV. This is perfect especially if someone owns an iMac or Cinema Display as a TV.

Explaination of the App:

What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate with each other over local area networks. When Apple created AirPlay, it basically set up a new way for Apple TV to interact with iOS using Bonjour communications.

… I was able to put together a basic OS X application that more or less pretends to be an Apple TV.

By interacting with iOS devices the same way that Apple TV does and providing the same kinds of services and feedback, AirPlayer allows you to use your iDevice’s built in AirPlay support to send video to your Mac.

Oh and you don’t even need to jailbreak your iOS device ! All you need is a iPhone, iPad or iPod touch which is running iOS 4.2.1, and a Mac running AirPlayer software and you are good to go.

But if you plan on using this functionality using third-party apps such as AirVideoEnabler or Air Home Video, you will have to jailbreak your iOS device on iOS 4.2.1, instructions for which can be found here.

Video Demo of AirPlayer:

Download AirPlayer:

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