![]() Videos that cannot be directly played are automatically converted, thus you don't have to worry about compatibility issues. In order to access the videos from the mobile device, you have to have the Air Video client application installed on the iPhone, iPad or iPod. It can share both disk folders and iTunes playlists and enables you to customize the server properties to fit your needs. Once installed, the server is started and the program runs in the system tray, enabling you to configure its settings by right-clicking on the tray icon.Īir Video Server provides support for a wide range of video formats (m4v, mov, avi, mp4, wmv, asf, mpg, to name some), but it cannot stream DRM protected videos or proprietary codecs. The application uses the Apple Bonjour service in order to allow automatic server discovery on the local network. In either case you can manually add the server (by its IP address or by its name).Air Video Server provides you with a simple method for streaming multimedia content to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, enabling you to watch videos on the handheld device without needing the actual video files to be stored locally. If not, either you didn’t set up Bonjour announcement properly, or you just didn’t set up Bonjour. When you run the Air Video player, the server you just set up should show up in the “Computers on Local Network” list. Sudo restart avahi-daemon Adding the server to Air Video player The file should be picked up immediately by the avahi-daemon, but you can restart the service just to make sure: ![]() Then create a file named rvice (the name is really not important) in /etc/avahi/services/ with the following content: In order to set up Air Vide Server with Bonjour announcement you need avahi-daemon. Sudo stop airvideo Setting up with Bonjour ![]() You can also control it manually by doing respawn tells it to restart the server if it crashed. This will tell UpStart to run the server process as user root upon reaching one of the runlevels 2-5 and stop the server when the system shuts down. Just create a file /etc/init/nf with this content:Įxec sudo -H -n -u root /usr/bin/java -jar /opt/AirVideoServer/AirVideoServerLinux.jar /opt/AirVideoServer/test.properties To autostart AirVideoServer upon bootup, you can use UpStart which is the default way in Karmic Koala. ![]()
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