Introducing Air Video App: Stream and Convert Videos on Your iPad

Hello YouTube, it's Detroit Borg here, and today I'm going to demonstrate the Air Video app for the iPad. This app is also available for the iPod touch and iPhone, and it allows you to stream video files from your computer to your iPad. Not only does it free up some storage space on your iPad, but it also converts video files that don't normally play on the iPad.

To get started with Air Video, we need to add a server to our setup. Since I'm using my local Wi-Fi, I'll just go ahead and launch Air Video now. Yes, Air Video does work on both local Wi-Fi networks and over the Internet, so it will definitely work with 3G as well. However, there are some challenges to getting it to work over the internet, and that's a topic we can discuss later.

The first step in setting up Air Video is to add a server. Since I'm using my local Wi-Fi, all I need to do is go to this plus sign, select "add server," and then I'll see my iMac listed. Selecting "okay" will show me the three folders I've added. Now, I have the option to share folders or playlists. In this case, I have podcast, which is a playlist, movies, which is a folder, and mic one, which is my home folder for the iMac.

Let's go ahead and select "movies" since that's where all my videos are kept. We'll just grab the first video and see how it plays. Now, we can see a preview of our video in the right-hand side panel, along with some additional information such as the resolution, duration, and final size. In this case, the resolution is 1280 x 720, the duration is 8 minutes and 52 seconds, and the final size is 576 mbes.

We can see several options here: play directly, convert, and add to iTunes. The "play directly" option allows us to play the video automatically, since it's compatible with our iPad. If we want to scrub through the video or jump forward or backward, we can do so using this option. We'll demonstrate that by playing the video now and then stopping it to show you how we can scrub through it.

Now, let's go ahead and select a video file that won't play automatically. I happen to have "momento" right here, which is an avi file that doesn't normally play on my iPad. If I select this video file, I no longer have the option to play it directly. Instead, I'm offered the options of playing with live conversion or converting it. Since the server will convert the video live and play it back, I'll choose the "play with live conversion" option.

Now that we've selected a video file, let's see how the conversion process works. We can hit the "conversion queue" button to see what's happening in our conversion queue. It looks like the server is currently converting our video file, and it should take about 6 minutes and 6 seconds to complete once it's done.

Once the conversion is complete, we'll be able to play the converted video directly from our iPad. Let's go ahead and select "continue" to see what happens next. And... there you go! Our video has been successfully converted, and we can now play it directly from our iPad.

One of the other benefits of Air Video is that our video files will play automatically, without needing any additional setup or configuration. We simply need to hit the "play" button, and the app will take care of everything else. If we want to modify how our video files are converted, we can do so by going to the global settings menu.

In addition to playing videos directly, Air Video also allows us to add them to our iTunes folder on our computer or other devices. This can be useful if you need to access your videos across multiple platforms. We can also adjust the maximum width and height of our converted videos as well as their quality using these options in the global settings menu.

In conclusion, Air Video is a great tool for streaming and converting video files on your iPad. With its ability to play incompatible file formats directly and convert them live for seamless playback, it's perfect for anyone looking to free up space on their device or enjoy videos without needing additional setup. Thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello YouTube It's Detroit Borg and today I'm going to demonstrate the air video app for the iPad now this app is also available for the iPod touch and the iPhone basically the air video app allows you to stream video files from your computer to your iPad so not only does it free up some of the storage space on your iPad but it also converts video files that don't normally play on the iPad so for instance if you have an MKV file or avi file that can't play sync to the iPad through iTunes all you have to do is use the air video app and it will convert it live essentially the air video app is working with a server that's running on either your Mac or your PC and on that server you can designate exactly which files or folders you want shared with your iPad so let's go ahead and launch air video now Air Video does work on your local Wi-Fi network or it does work over the Internet so it will work with 3G now there are some challenges to getting it to work over the internet you will need a router that supports up and p and Nat PMP unfortunately I haven't had any success getting it to work so I'm just using my local Wi-Fi to demonstrate so the first thing I'll need to do is add a server and since I'm using my local Wi-Fi and I have the server running on my iMac right now all I should have to do is go to this plus sign I see my iMac listed select okay I see my computer added if I select that I'll see the three folders I've added now you have the option to share folders or to share playlists so in this case I have podcast which is a playlist movies which is a folder and mic one which happens to be my home folder for the iMac so let's go to movies let's go to flip share data that's where all my videos are kept let's just grab the first one 3G tethering speed test okay now I see I have a preview of my video in the right side and I get some information I can see the resolution is 1280 x 720 the duration is 8 minutes and 52 seconds and the final size is 576 mbes on the bottom I see several options I can play directly convert add to iTunes basically this allows me to add this video file to my iTunes folder on my computer or I can play with live conversions now play appears because the video file is actually compatible with my iPad all I have to do is hit play and the video will play automatically so let's do that I iPad is connected to a 3G network via an iPhone 3 okay so it's playing directly from my computer right now I can stop it let me go back to play and I can show you that I can actually scrub it as well now I'm able to do so if I can scrub it to a later scene on the tether your iPad and uh all right so as you can see when I these are the Raw videos these are the videos before you actually see them so they're not very po polished but anyway you get the idea is that you can scrub live uh through the Wi-Fi network now since this plays directly from my computer I don't have to use any of these other options let's go to a video file where I will not be given the option to play right away I happen to have momento right here so if I select momento I no longer have an option to play I just have play with live conversion or convert the reason that is is because the video file is an avi file that doesn't normally play on the iPad I can play with live conversion essentially the server right now is converting the video live and playing it back of course that works pretty well so let's stop but if I want to watch this at a later time or if my computer is slower and live conversion doesn't work very well all I have to do is hit convert I see this popup that says video was successfully added to conversion Q so let's go to continue and see what the conversion que is up here I see Q so if I hit Q I see that momento is ripping right now so it's going to take about 6 minutes and 6 seconds to convert so once it's converted it will play directly from that file now if I were to go to podcast I will see that these will play automatically as well because the because they are coming from iTunes and they are playable on the iPad all I have to do is hit play I can also go to global settings to modify how I want these video files converted so I have some other options here I can change the maximum width and the maximum height or the quality of the conversion so once again that's the air video app for the iPad thanks for watchinghello YouTube It's Detroit Borg and today I'm going to demonstrate the air video app for the iPad now this app is also available for the iPod touch and the iPhone basically the air video app allows you to stream video files from your computer to your iPad so not only does it free up some of the storage space on your iPad but it also converts video files that don't normally play on the iPad so for instance if you have an MKV file or avi file that can't play sync to the iPad through iTunes all you have to do is use the air video app and it will convert it live essentially the air video app is working with a server that's running on either your Mac or your PC and on that server you can designate exactly which files or folders you want shared with your iPad so let's go ahead and launch air video now Air Video does work on your local Wi-Fi network or it does work over the Internet so it will work with 3G now there are some challenges to getting it to work over the internet you will need a router that supports up and p and Nat PMP unfortunately I haven't had any success getting it to work so I'm just using my local Wi-Fi to demonstrate so the first thing I'll need to do is add a server and since I'm using my local Wi-Fi and I have the server running on my iMac right now all I should have to do is go to this plus sign I see my iMac listed select okay I see my computer added if I select that I'll see the three folders I've added now you have the option to share folders or to share playlists so in this case I have podcast which is a playlist movies which is a folder and mic one which happens to be my home folder for the iMac so let's go to movies let's go to flip share data that's where all my videos are kept let's just grab the first one 3G tethering speed test okay now I see I have a preview of my video in the right side and I get some information I can see the resolution is 1280 x 720 the duration is 8 minutes and 52 seconds and the final size is 576 mbes on the bottom I see several options I can play directly convert add to iTunes basically this allows me to add this video file to my iTunes folder on my computer or I can play with live conversions now play appears because the video file is actually compatible with my iPad all I have to do is hit play and the video will play automatically so let's do that I iPad is connected to a 3G network via an iPhone 3 okay so it's playing directly from my computer right now I can stop it let me go back to play and I can show you that I can actually scrub it as well now I'm able to do so if I can scrub it to a later scene on the tether your iPad and uh all right so as you can see when I these are the Raw videos these are the videos before you actually see them so they're not very po polished but anyway you get the idea is that you can scrub live uh through the Wi-Fi network now since this plays directly from my computer I don't have to use any of these other options let's go to a video file where I will not be given the option to play right away I happen to have momento right here so if I select momento I no longer have an option to play I just have play with live conversion or convert the reason that is is because the video file is an avi file that doesn't normally play on the iPad I can play with live conversion essentially the server right now is converting the video live and playing it back of course that works pretty well so let's stop but if I want to watch this at a later time or if my computer is slower and live conversion doesn't work very well all I have to do is hit convert I see this popup that says video was successfully added to conversion Q so let's go to continue and see what the conversion que is up here I see Q so if I hit Q I see that momento is ripping right now so it's going to take about 6 minutes and 6 seconds to convert so once it's converted it will play directly from that file now if I were to go to podcast I will see that these will play automatically as well because the because they are coming from iTunes and they are playable on the iPad all I have to do is hit play I can also go to global settings to modify how I want these video files converted so I have some other options here I can change the maximum width and the maximum height or the quality of the conversion so once again that's the air video app for the iPad thanks for watching\n"