Mobile Safari bookmarklet to enable AirPlay video for web content

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Hi, author here :)

The bookmarklet seems to work best on content which uses the <video> element rather than <embed>. I'm not clear why, as Apple's documentation says it should work with embedded content (see http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/General...) but it seems more fragile.

Hope you find it useful. Comments welcome!

Very cool. I found that AirPlaying Vimeo video from an iPad works wonderfully, while doing it from an iPhone (both on 4.3) only allows audio to AirPlay.

Any ideas why they would be different? Do you know if this bookmarklet works for Vimeo on iPhone (haven't had a chance to try it yet, but will)?

I've just tried it on the WiFi light painting video posted here last week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270878) and it worked fine. You need to stop the video first, run the script, and then you're good to go.

I haven't got a chance to properly try it, but I had a similar idea a couple of weeks ago. What I wanted to do was a bookmarklet/plugin to send a video to an AppleTV from a computer, rather than an iOS device. Definitely possible but I didn't get around to it.

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