#Air video server hd mac for mac os x#
#Air video server hd mac 720p#

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.

Since the server is based on a customized version of FFmpeg, download it from (use the 2.2.5 version!) and unpack it to some directory.

In this article is a compilation of the steps that took me to get it to work, based on the information found mainly on the following locations: However, the installation process is not straight forward, or at least not as the Windows and Mac versions.

#Air video server hd mac for mac os x#

The Air Video player, with the Air Video Server, allows for the streaming of video transcoded for the iPad, but there are only server versions for Windows and for Mac OS X and my library is available on a headless linux server running Ubuntu 10.04.Īfter some googling I found out that there is a linux version of the Air Video Server. Converting them in advance takes time and for that reason is not convenient.

#Air video server hd mac 720p#

I haven’t used it so much for watching videos because my library is in HD (mostly 720p in Matroska) and the iPad usually doesn’t support the profile and level of the encondings. I have had an iPad for a few months now, but I use it mainly for reading, browsing, checking my e-mail and more recently for watching TV (through Veetle).