AirVideo App 2.1.2 - can no longer start from previous location

Since installing the new update I have had some issues with the tvout. With tvout enabled it no longer allows me to restart the video from where i was. I really don't understand why this functionality would be taken away in an update. Also when beginning a new live conversion the scan button has been removed so that now i would have to scan using the loading bar on top. However, the major problem i am having is that when watching through tvout if i have to close the app it no longer saves the place i was at and I am forced to begin from the start. I am downloading the previous version of the app with all the functionality intact. I wonder if these issues will be addressed or if not, will i still be able to use the previous version of the app with future server updates?

Well, the reasons are both political and technical. iPhone SDK has no public API for TV out. To get the functionality we had to use undocumented API. Due to changes in approval process this was no longer possible so we had to find an alternative solution. Unfortunately this solution doesn't allow us to preserve playback time.

You can submit a feature request to Apple for public TV out API. Maybe if they have enough of those they finally introduce it.

Sounds like a good reason to avoid updating beyond 2.1.1. It's not my place to tell you how to write code, but I suggest you find a workaround quickly.

It's going to take a very compelling future update to cause me to upgrade beyond my current version. Upgrades should never reduce functionality - never!

This only affects users that use TV out. Otherwise the functionality is intact.

AppStore is a very tightly controlled environment. Unfortunately it has happened many times in AppStore that applications were forced to remove features because they didn't get approval from Apple.

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Admin wrote:This only affects users that use TV out. Otherwise the functionality is intact.

AppStore is a very tightly controlled environment. Unfortunately it has happened many times in AppStore that applications were forced to remove features because they didn't get approval from Apple.

Apple is a pain in the butt, for sure. If they didn't make such killer hardware....

Is the seek functionality the only thing that's changed due to Apple? I'm just about to hit the app store to upgrade....

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Well, I suggest you to save the current version of Air Video app (should be in iTunes folder, unless you have downloaded it right to your iPhone).

We also had to introduce automatic quality control (depending on available bandwidth). In most cases it should work better than the previous version, at least over 3G.