Comments on: 6 ways to watch your own videos from your iPhone or Mac on your TV

By: Audrey

Audrey — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:51:25 +0000

In simple form How do I stream my purchased shows from iPhone to Apple TV with no downloading time… Of course.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:57:34 +0000

You are my God!

Seriously, I hope more people pay attention to this comment, because I searched for a long time before I found this (including going back to the Apple Store).

I got an AppleTV and tried Air Parrot but it was waaay too laggy with my old machine. This totally solved my problem.

By: Tinto

Tinto — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:19:52 +0000

I’d put DLNA and UPNP to the first place, since most of modern TVs support it. I’m using ArkMC to stream movies from my iPhone to HDTV

By: yodathegreek

yodathegreek — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:13:36 +0000

imediashare does not require nearly as much work to set up as serviio and plex. works with any UPnP/DLNA device. easiest option IMO.

By: ragtrends

ragtrends — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:38:57 +0000

Big Duh to OP in not even a mention of XBMC …the very best and free.
Cut the cord 4 years ago !

By: jayk

jayk — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:57:46 +0000

I use a raspberry pi + external hard drive with lighttpd web server and http directory browsing enabled. There is a great roku private channel app called Roksbox that serves it up to each TV. For the rare times that I need AirPlay, I got one of those $35 android HDMI sticks and a $5 airplay app for it.

The raspberry pi gives me always-on access to my media with very little power consumption. It is headless and I just SSH into it from my mac or PC. Transferring files to it is as simple as FTP. I copy cover art with the same name as the video file and can even put an xml file on there for information.

This is way too complicated for most users to set up, but my 3 year old can use the end result on the Roku far easier than working with AppleTV and Airplay or DLNA.

If you wanted to skip the raspberry pi, you could turn on web sharing through your mac or IIS through your PC and browse that way.

By: Abdul in New Zealand

Abdul in New Zealand — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:01:28 +0000

what to do the same but with my samsung S3 , i bought HDMI cable and converter but didn’t work .. anyway it seem there are many ways to do that in iOS
cheers

By: Onemanish

Onemanish — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:01:42 +0000

If you have a computer, an iOS device and an AppleTV then possibly the easiest way to get video from the computer to the TV is to use AirVideo app on iOS (via AirPlay) and corresponding Air Video Sever on the computer. Converts any file on the fly for AirPlay use.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:33:11 +0000

Air play video is my go to

By: hundoman

hundoman — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:23:36 +0000

Why isn’t DLNA built into iOS operating system and why can’t I just plug a regular $5.00 HDMI cable into my iOS product like I can do with any other smart phone or tablet? Why do I have to use an every changing Apple adapter.

I have to carry around about $350 dollars of various Apple only adapters to do my job which is real pain in the butt .. thought I lost my bag of dongles once and freaked out and raced back to the find it which was a relief.