[mythtv-users] streaming music to MythFE

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 19:40 +0200, Nicolas Krzywinski wrote: 
> Hello Brian,

Hi Nicholas,

> as MythFE does not provide upnp renderer functionality, I simply installed rygel with plugin rygel-playbin on my Mythbuntu box.

I suspect XBMC is a UPnP renderer also, so this starts to become another
"why XBMC vs. MythFE" use-case.

I did try music with MythFE's Airplay support but that didn't seem to
work either.  I could get video over Airplay but not just audio.

> Then you can play on this upnp renderer via any upnp controller, using an upnp server as media source.

Or local media also.

>  For the latter you can use Myth (FE or BE? not sure, both on same machine...), as it acts as upnp server.

But why would I want to rather than just accessing that BE directly from
the FE?

> Currently I am still unsure whether to proceed UPnP Monkey on android as upnp controller as it is not perfect ... but it works.

Yeah.  Ideally I want to use whatever Android music app I would normally
use to listen to otherwise (i.e. with headphones or the speaker or
bluetooth, etc.) but it seems that general integration between audio
(i.e. music) apps and streaming (with UPnP or otherwise) in Android is
not quite there and not enough audio apps support "share" to send
through whatever *casting software you want to use.  There seem to be
solutions if you can/want to root your device though, to route any audio
through a *cast.

Maybe a Bluetooth dongle and sink is the better way to go.

> Conflicting behaviour of using the audio output on my myth box is interesting:
> 1) start music via upnp -> mythbox starts to play
> 2) start tv via MythFE -> mythbox stops music and plays the television audio
> 3) stop tv via MythFE -> mythbo stops television and proceeds playing the music

What's "mythbox" in this context.  It seems to be different from what
you are referring to as your "MythFE".

Cheers,
b.

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