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Video Stream on Your PowerMac G5 with Air Video Server 2.4.3

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My PowerMac Dual-core 2.3GhZ PowerPC G5 is still a strong working pony in my computing arsenal. Despite Firefox balking at me to upgrade my hardware, I press on with the most awesome computing hardware ever to come out of Apple.  I own an iMac dual-core intel, but there is something more ominous about the PowerMac computers. There life and their future was cut short by intel platform macs. This afternoon I decided to setup the iTunes on my PowerMac to SHARE my video library to my Apple devices, the iphone and the ipad. What a nightmare this turned out to be. Somehow, Apple, the purveyor of cool computing gadgets thinks us geeks own no more than 5 computing devices. Yes, your iTunes library will only let you authorize 5 computing devices to stream to inside your own wi-fi intranet. So the hammer came down to ditch iTunes as a video server and I searched the Internet for other viable streaming applications. I came across two which I liked, vlc streamer and air video server . The f