Apple’s AirPlay streaming underline enables the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to tide video as well as audio to the Apple TV 2. But why stop there?

Wired.com’s friend Erica Sadun has been tough at work hacking away during AirPlay to enhance the powers. About the week ago she released AirPlayer, the Mac app to tide video from the a Apple TV to a Mac. And just not long ago she released AirFlick to do a reverse: stream video from a Mac to a Apple TV. No jailbreaking required.

If you own a Mac as well as a brand new Apple TV, you need the AirFlick hack, since it creates AirPlay approach some-more utilitarian. You already can tide video from a Mac to the Apple TV, though you’re limited to iTunes-compatible videos (.H264-encoded MP4). AirFlick adds await for the multitude of video formats which you wouldn’t be means to tide routinely (such as AVI, MKV, FLV, WMV as well as RMVB).

The AirFlick as well as AirPlayer hacks are in really early development stages, so be warned: Some facilities competence be buggy. They’re free downloads, though, so give it a whisk. See the video on top of for a quick educational.

AirPlay utilities [Erica Sadun]