http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/ Engadget Comments for Secret iPhone video-out features hacked, used for video games http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Jailbreak your device, live free.]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 6th 2008 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/I hope I'm wrong, though.

As for Apple not developing this - it's Apple.
The only other reason I can see is that it'll drain your battery faster than a steely dan on high.]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
This is awesome. If you watch the video in HD mode, it looks like the picture is actually quite sharp. Not the polygon count you'd expect in a full fledged console based game, but very nice.]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Also the slowdown I believe is probably not due to a resolution problem, but due to the CPU being responsible for copying the framebuffer to the video-out hardware. AFAIK this hardware is part of the h.264 decoder so I'm quite suprised tht they are able to feed it fast enough to achieve this type of frame rate even. (Note that these bits of code would have been Apple's.)

Now they just need to crack into the bluetooth frameworks so we can get wiimotes, PS3 controllers, and bluetooth mice/keyboards working.

Further, I wouldn't be surprised if someone really enterprising managed to get HD out of the things -- component outputs + a programmable RAMDAC and you're basically set. Quite frankly, we're probably past the point where someone should have done this to a Wii already.]]>Dec 5th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
"In the normal game, the gas button is touch controlled to allow you to accelerate. In this demo, the same button is hardwired down so all you need to control is driving. These shortcuts allowed Freeverse to create a working tech demo within their time constraints and really show what the iPhone video out features were capable of."

Please do try and read before you post.]]>Dec 5th 2008 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Dear Apple,

Let us do what we want with a device that we purchased.

Cordially,

non-Apple fanboys]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Of course, I think that they should document these so-called "secret APIs" and make them available for the devs to use. But that's not really a matter of them letting you do what you want with your property...it's a matter of them not letting you sell something via their online store because you are doing something they told you not to.]]>Dec 5th 2008 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Lets see your shite Nokia do this!


Rank me up boys!!!]]>Dec 5th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Aww.

What a difficult game!]]>Dec 5th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/That never gets old
Nor does the blue lego block with a question mark when I see flash content..... Nothing like the real internet]]>Dec 5th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
Definitely still sick though.

Now if only they could do this with Crysis...]]>Dec 5th 2008 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
You do know PC's plug into TV's, don't you?]]>Dec 5th 2008 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 5th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 6th 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 19th 2008 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/
As for the Keynote question. No. You can't use the video cable and do a Keynote presentation because the iPhone doesn't run Keynote. HOWEVER, you can export your Keynote into a Quicktime movie, and run the Quicktime movie with its transitions. I've done that. However, I prefer using my laptop connected to the projector running Keynote, and using the iPhone as a smart remote running Showtime. That's a great app.]]>Dec 5th 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/secret-iphone-video-out-features-hacked-used-for-video-games/Dec 9th 2008 1:34PM