Last night couldn’t fall asleep. So instead of going downstairs and cranking up the home theater system downstairs and risking waking up my wife, I looked into iphone apps that stream movie and tv shows (btw, my favorite keeping track of tv shows iphone app is TV Shows) so I could watch a flick in bed on my ipod touch. Best one I found was Air Video $3. I initially played with the demo as the only limitation it has is it displays three random movies in selected directory but you can hit refresh repeatedly to locate one your looking for. Air Video is awesome as it transcodes xvid video files on my NAS on the fly with my iMac dual core 2.66GHz as the transcoding server. No you can’t do .iso or video_ts but can do just about anything else xvid, divx, mkv, avi, etc. It takes 10 seconds for it to start playing while it prepares by transcoding and buffering.
I like to set Quality to about 75% which looks fantastic. You can lower that if your on a 3G connection instead of a wifi. Love to change the Target Resolution and adjust the zoom slider. Got to decide how much your willing to crop off (don’t do too much) and trying to get some nice fill screen by increasing the height of the video. Seek to any point in the video and it’ll start playing in 10 seconds. Does not stream itunes videos purchases as that is DRM protected.
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