Comments on: iPhone App Video Mirroring

By: TouchCentric » iPhone App Video Mirroring in Three Easy Steps

TouchCentric » iPhone App Video Mirroring in Three Easy Steps — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:04 +0000

[...] in Cocoa and I was wondering if I cout get some help or a brief tutorial on implementing the UIApplication+TVOut.m in a small project and I am trying to build please any and all help would greatly be [...]

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:17:28 +0000

Hi Rob and “The Evil Boss”,
thx for sharing this code. Really amazing…

The only Problem i am struggling with, is the 16 bit color output of my iphone 3g. It looks horrible . The output of the 3GS seem to be 24/32 bit. Did someone have the same problem.

By: Dan F

Dan F — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:35:12 +0000

Many thanks for sharing this. It worked on the first try in my app. Excellent work!

By: Matt Radford

Matt Radford — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:09:19 +0000

Is there a way of using this code to provide a better version of the jailbreak app TV-Out (or similar)?

I’ve been trying to record app demos by using TV-Out, output to my Macbook, then using a screen recorder to capture this. But it’s not great, especially with high FPS games.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:27:13 +0000

Aral, have you tried recording the video out of the app?

By the way, contrary to what I wrote above, this code DOES work with OpenGL. I have demoed games written with Unity 3D and Cocos2D using this. If you use a 3GS you can set the TVOut framerate to over 20 fps and it’s very acceptable.

By: Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:36:40 +0000

@momo: I completely agree. I can’t believe that I’ve now spent longer on trying to record a high-quality demo video of my app than I did in coding the major functionality in it.

Enabling universal TV Out for iPhones makes makes perfect sense for apple as higher quality demo videos will translate to more sales and thus a higher income for Apple itself from its percentage of those sales.

By: Visionner les applications iPhone sur sa TV

Visionner les applications iPhone sur sa TV — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:05:32 +0000

[...] Rob Terrell a développé une classe pour iPhone permettant de regarder ses applications iPhone sur son téléviseur. [...]

By: momo

momo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:57:06 +0000

Hello Rob,

wow thats pretty amazing, to have a code for that,…
I am not a coder and have no clue how to program,
but i have a question that i cannot get out of my head,
and after reading your post i even more surprised…
Why does apple not want to output video signals on apps or even better why do they not programm an app for video out? it is possible, the code is here and then the app will not survive Apple’s app review process. Why does apple do that? have you an answer? really sucks… i mean they are forcing people to jailbrake their ipods…

By: Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:57:41 +0000

Looking forward to seeing The Evil Boss’s additions

On a side note: openURL:asPanel: appears to have been removed in 3.0 +. Any other tricks for mirroring Safari?

Thanks!

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:24:29 +0000

Any idea why the mirrowView does not show in landscape when the device is rotated?

Here is my code for autorotation –

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)x {
return (x == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait) || UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(x);
}

You help is greatly appreciated.