Stream live video to your iPad, virtually any format gets converted live by an app called Air Video. No jailbreak required!

Yesterday night I wanted to watch a TV series on my iPad in the bedroom, but I had it on a DVD encoded with the popular DivX codec. Of corse, the iPad and the iPhone do not support any video codec other than MPEG-4 H.264 with MP3 or AAC audio out of the box and you just can’t add anything that is not Apple-approved unless you jailbreak the device.

I thought I was back to the pre-iPad era: before I got the “magic tablet” I had to move the MacBook, the power adapter, track down the dedicated IKEA pillow… No more!

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