Air Video Server is a very robust video sharing tool.

Air Video Server allows you to stream your video files to iPhones and iPods alike, being the iPod Touch the only supported iPod. From those two devices, you have to download an app that will receive the video Air Video Server streams over your network. Air Video Server simply shares folders in your computer and monitors them in search of video files. When a folder contains video files, Air Video Server recollects information about them and readies them for playback on your iPhone, for example. Most files can be played immediately, but some (those formats not supported natively on the iPhone) will have to be converted. The iPhone application warns you when this is the case and sends a command to the server to initiate a conversion operation. The good thing is that you don't have to wait for the server to finish converting a file, you can start watching it or have the application seek forward to any point in the movie. For most formats, the application works great. I found that some higher quality files in those unsupported formats tend to not play at all on the iPhone or just make it hang waiting for a feed to be sent. All the regular .AVI files that I have tried worked perfectly. The server holds a record of all the operations that took place each session, and you can access that record in the Logs tab. You can also set a resolution at which files will be converted when requested.

“With Air Video you can stream videos in almost any format to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. You don't need to copy your videos to the device just to watch them.”

Features

Streaming:

• Automated server discovery on local network using Apple Bonjour.
• Possibility to add custom servers by specifying IP address and port directly Can be used to stream videos over internet .
• Share disk folders and iTunes playlists.
• Optional password protection.
• Add videos to iTunes playlist from iPhone.

Conversion:

• If the videos in your collection are not in format supported by iPhone, Air Video can convert them on fly (live conversion) or offline (entire file).
• Videos that can not by directly played by iPhone can be easily converted. All major containers and codecs supported (mp4, m4v, mov, avi, wmv, asf, mpg, mpeg, mkv, 3gp, dmf, divx, flv). DRM protected videos as well as proprietary codecs are NOT supported.
• Live conversion allows you to play videos without having to convert them upfront. Requires iPhone or iPod touch with firmware 3.0 or newer and sufficiently powerful computer.
• Option to convert entire video before playing it (offline conversion).
• Files converted offline can be put to conversion queue.
• Adjust quality, zoom and resolution for each video individually.
• Select audio stream (language).

Note:

Faq and Troubleshooting:

Faq and Troubleshooting can be found HERE

Getting Started Guide:

The guide to get started can be found HERE

Requirements:

Air Video Server also requires Bonjour to be installed. If you have iTunes installed, you already have Bonjour so you do not need to download it.

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OS Requirements:

Win XP/Vista/Win 7

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