[mythtv-users] 0.27 and AirPlay

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 8 21:19:27 UTC 2013


> On 9 Oct 2013, at 2:49 am, "Andre Newman" <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 8 Oct 2013, at 16:02, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
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>> I've just installed .27 on my 'production' system and it is working very nicely, except for the new AirPlay features.  The code is .27-fixes as of Sep 21; I'll update in the next few days but I don't see any commits that are obviously related.
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>> Chatting with JYA on IRC last night, he indicated that AirPlay works for him.  I wanted to see if anyone else has tried it out and what their results were.
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>> My experience is that AirTunes works fine...ie play a song on the iPhone (iOS 7.0.2) through AirTunes to a mythfrontend.
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> Yes that works for me too, IOS 7.0.2 iPad
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>> Using the Video app however, the audio plays but no video.
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> Yes, same here, I get the speaker symbol for MythTV so it's seeing audio capability but not video.
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>> When I try to display photos on the frontend, about half the time the frontend is not even listed as a possible AirPlay target.  For those times it is available, no photo is displayed.
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> I've never seen MythTV as a target for photos since upgrading from 0.25, (I didn't stay on 0.26 for very long).
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>> I've tried the frontend in three different environments:  OS X 10.6.8, 10.7.5 and 10.8.5.  I've turned off other AirPlay/AirTunes devices on my network.  I freshly restarted both the router and the phone before testing.  None of these steps made any difference.
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> I'm using two Ubuntu 12.04 systems and OSX 10.8.5 same story everywhere.
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>> Note that AirTunes/AirPlay USED to work for me.
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> I used to use it for photos a lot (0.25 days), videos worked sometimes, other times the frontend would crash or refuse to AirPlay until restarted but worked ok for MythTV recordings playback.
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> Portrait iPhone (IOS 6) videos would crash it everytime, GF likes shooting videos like that!
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>> Most recently, I tried it out with 0.27 in the late-August/early-September timeframe. I thought the photo display aspect was very cool and something that might be fun to show people.  I've used AirTunes sporadically with 0.25 and 0.26 before that.  I haven't made any changes to my network in many months.
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> No network changes here either, it might be worth mentioning that I'm in a working native ipv6 and ipv4 network, no nat here, I've been expecting the problem lies there until I saw this post.
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>> So, does .27 AirPlay work for you or not?  Thanks,
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> Nope, doesn't work here.
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> I'm happy to do whatever is required to help debug, I'm set up to compile if necessary. Have been planning to dig into this one sometime soon but it wasn't a great priority.
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> Andre
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[Mark] I've spent too much time away from my system over the last month to look into it further but I 'feel' that airplay works much more reliably for me when Mythfrontend is started in a terminal window rather than auto start. I have no idea why or if it is an incorrect impression. But on at least 4 or 5 occasions I was unable to get airplay (video) to work so I exited and restarted in terminal window to get console logging and it worked first time every time afterwards. Others that are having issues may try this and see if it is replicable or just me.


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