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Airfoil 3.5 Brings EyeTV Sync And More
Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 16th, 2009
Every day, more and more users are finding out just how great it is to send audio around their entire house, wirelessly, with Airfoil. We’re not slowing down either – today, we’re happy to announce that Airfoil 3.5 is now available!
Users of Elgato’s EyeTV will be very pleased with this update. If you’ve ever tried to watch EyeTV video while sending the audio remotely, you’ve seen that the audio and video don’t sync up. We’ve teamed up with Elgato to work around this issue. Now, with EyeTV 3.3 and Airfoil 3.5, local video is delayed to perfectly sync with remote audio – excellent!
We’ve also vastly improved the process of pulling audio from both VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop. To grab their audio you’ll need the Instant Hijack component installed, via the Install Extras… window in the Airfoil menu. Once that’s installed, just choose Fusion or Parallels in the Source pop-up at the bottom of the Airfoil window, and Airfoil will take care of the rest!
Airfoil for Mac 3.5 is a free update. Just choose Check For Update from the Airfoil menu, or click to download from our site. If you haven’t used Airfoil before, grab the free Airfoil trial.
Andrew says:
December 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pmIs there way I can install Airfoil on PS3?
Rob says:
December 17th, 2009 at 6:12 amDoes it allow precueing in djay now?
Paul Kafasis says:
December 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pmAndrew: Airfoil is the sending portion of the equation – there’s definitely no way to send audio FROM the PS3 out to other outputs, nor will there likely ever be.
Airfoil Speakers is the receiving end. This we’re considering porting to the PS3 in the future, so that the PS3 can receive audio the same way an AppleTV, AirPort Express or other Mac, Windows, or Linux box does.
Rob: No, djay’s pre-cueing is not currently supported. We’ll see what happens in the future, but this requires special-casing for djay.
Mat says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:54 amI am thinking about purchasing Airfoil for main use with EyeTV. Unfortunately, my machine runs Mac OS X Riger (10.4), and I see Airfoil 3.5 is not available for download on this version of the OS. Will a Tiger compatible version ever be released?
Paul Kafasis says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:29 amMat: No – Tiger is no longer supported. You’ll need to update to Mac OS X 10.5 or higher to use Airfoil 3.5.
Matrix says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pmWhen can we anticipate a PS3 compatible AirFoil Speaker update? I am so thrilled about your development on this software as it has changed how I can listen to music and if I can stream to a PS3 that would solve a great bit and will not need to get an Airport Express for my rooms.
Thanks and Great Work by you all.