Existing users, 
Airfoil
Stream music from any application to Airport Express base station.
Version: 3.4.3
Wish it did video, but still good
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: paninis Thursday, March 03 2005 @ 05:54 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
When i first saw this, I thought (like others) that now I could watch my DVDs over Airport. Sadly, the audio falls behind the video. I guess (they say) that this is a problem with the Airport unit itself, which sucks. Hopefully, they'll figure out how to get around it. But I realized, i could use this for lots of other stuff, like higher quality playback of my audio DVDs. It's very handy, and works as advertised. I just hope they can eventually overcome the lagging.
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Wish it did video, but still good - iamdw
An explaination and workaround...Unfortunatly, unless you have some sort of fiber optic OC48 local area network, there is no cure for this ailment. Without getting too technical, the bandwidth(data transmission rate) used for Video is much greater than that of audio. However, there are a few video applications out there such as VLC (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14738) that can de-sync the audio and video so that the video will play slighly behing the audio, thus making it SEEM like they are in sync over Airport express. Not perfect, but currently the only foreseable solution. please see http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/faq.php#movies for more details.
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