[mythtv-users] AirPlay Support

Matt Emmott memmott at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 03:00:38 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Jacob Steenhagen <jacob at steenhagen.us>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:38:41PM -0500, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:
>>> > Is there anyone doing work to allow playing video from iPhone/iPad via
>>> AirPlay to Myth??
>>>
>>> ...it seems like all you really need is a 3rd party app and a menu entry
>>> to activate it. It would be sort of like starting a VNC server or X
>>> server
>>> in order to connect to another machine on the desktop.
>>>
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>> Looks like the 3rd party app part has come to pass :)
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>> http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/22/airplay-video-support-comes-to-linux-courtesy-of-totem-media-pla/
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>> http://jacob.steenhagen.us
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> I was really hoping to play with this today but I didn't get a chance. At
> any rate, there are a couple other relevant links... First, somebody was
> able to push AirPlay to XBMC back in December but I'm not sure if the code
> is available, or if this is that code, or what:
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> http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/21/airplay-hacked-onto-xbmc-ubuntu-pc-windows-next-video/
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> Second and potentially cooler is a hack called AirVideoEnabler that lets
> you push non-Apple app video from a jailbroken iOS device to an AirPlay
> device.If it supports Netflix then this is a potentially easier way to get
> Netflix on a Linux box. Have any Myth devs looked at the Totem plugin yet
> to see if there's an easy way to port it to MythTV?
>
> I plan on jailbreaking my iPod this weekend to try out the XBMC buid, and
> hopefully will mess with AirVideoEnabler as well.
>

So in a beautiful piece of Internet serendipity, I've been using Airplay on
my XBMC 10.x box - Which is the same box as MythTV - and I wanted to see if
anybody was working on a port for MythTV. I came across this thread, in
which I was the last person to post. To respond to my own post, My iPad is
running a version of iOS that can't be jailbroken at this time.

Anyways, I've been using a hack, listed at
htpcbuild.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/get-airplay-working-on-your-xbmc-live-htpc/,
to get Airplay working on XBMC and it's just awesome. I did the dishes
while watching a stand-up routine on the iPad and Sony Bluetooth speakers.
After finishing the dishes, I sat down in my living room and changed the
airplay output from the speakers to the XBMC box, and watched the rest of
the show on my TV.

I have spent the weekend using Airplay to entertain guests and it's just
awesome. I see that Airplay support will be native in XBMC 11 which I
currently can't get to install on my system. but now that whatever the hack
is to get it to work in XBMC is mainstream, I was wondering if anybody has
revisited the idea in MythTV. As I slowly build HTPCs in every room of my
house, it would be awesome to be able to send videos to any of those rooms
at any time without missing a beat.
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