[mythtv-users] AirPlay audio only in iOS8

[Andréas Kühne]

2014-09-26 13:46 GMT+02:00 Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>:

> On 26 September 2014 14:58, Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Not sure if it's just me or an iOS 8 bug/quirk but since upgrading to
> iOS 8 I can no longer AirPlay video to mythtv, it plays the audio only,
> similar to what YouTube video did after the upgrade from iOS 6 to 7.
> >
> > I tried the old iPhone 4 (iOS 7.0.2) and the same video works fine.
> >
> > The AirPlay icon indicates video should be available but only the audio
> plays :(
>
> Apple appears to enforce the FairPlay encryption , without it the
> iphone won't attempt to establish an Airplay session...
> This impact all hacked implementation of AirPlay, including xbmc.
>
> Now advertising that we do support airplay with FairPlay would make
> video playback work, but that would disable AirTunes then (audio
> only).
>
> So you can get one or the other, but not both :(
>
> Typing this email just gave me an idea.. Maybe we could do what we
> used to do in earlier version, have two different service showing: one
> audio and one video. You would then have to switch between the airplay
> device on your iPhone all the time, but at least it would still be
> possible to do both, just not as convenient as it used to be...
>
> Jean-Yves
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I think that would be an acceptable compromise. The main thing is that we
would like it to work :-)

Regards,

Andréas
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