The Dutch developer Tupil has an application released to OS X video stream to a second generation Apple TV. The tool, Beamer called, makes use of an undocumented AirPlay feature.
The Apple TV media player supports without jailbreak only a limited number of file formats. Beamer must be an end to this limitation. Within OS X, a user can watch a video in a different format, such as avi or mkv, to the Beamer-application dragging. This is the application then to an Apple TV streamed. This is according to the developers used an undocumented feature in Apple’s AirPlay protocol.
By Beamer to use, is the for OS X users no longer need to convert videos to formats that the Apple TV media player called ‘swallowed’. The application, which is developed by the Dutch company Tupil, make – if necessary – for the on-the-fly transcoding using the ffmpeg library.
The Beamer application still has some limitations. So is there still no support for subtitles, but Tupil says here to work. Also, there is no mirroring function for displaying the OS X desktop on a tv screen. The application is not free; there is a need for a Projector is € 7 to be paid. Further, a Mac computer with OS X Lion is a requirement.
