<p><img src="http://www.allaboutiphone.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bbc.png" alt="" title="BBC" width="117" height="40" class="floatright" />In September I was all excited about <a href="http://www.allaboutiphone.net/2010/09/iplayer-airplay-apple-tv-its-all-coming-together/">streaming BBC iPlayer content from an iPhone or iPad to the new Apple TV</a>, based on the fact that AirPlay allows:</p>
<blockquote><p>Any H.264 content from the web can be broadcast over Airplay to your HDTV.</p></blockquote>
<p>Except that now iOS 4.2 has been released, it doesn&#8217;t work that way. Only <em>audio</em> can be streamed from non-Apple apps, which is frankly rubbish.</p>
<p>But there may be a solution.</p>
<p><span id="more-4321"></span>Erica Sadun of TUAW managed to get <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/24/apple-tv-hacking-spelunking-into-the-airplay-video-service/">a custom video app to send video to an Apple  TV</a>, and later <a href="http://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith">Steven Troughton-Smith</a> came up with a one-line solution.</p>
<p>All of which means, although for jailbreakers only, there is very likely to be a solution. Very soon, I would expect to see an app available on Cydia that will allow any video to be sent to an Apple TV.</p>
<p>The only remaining problem, which I didn&#8217;t think about in my earlier article, is the resolution. The BBC&#8217;s H.264 iPhone and iPad streams were not intended to be scaled up to 32&#8242; TV screens. I&#8217;ve played BBC iPlayer content through my TV using a component cable; it looked OK, but not great. A far better solution would be for Apple to allow iPlayer streaming direct on the Apple TV &#8211; which would require the Beeb to have another, higher-bitrate H.264 stream that will scale to TV sizes. Or perhaps an iPlayer app, if Apple allows Apple TV apps, and the BBC delivers one.</p>
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