[mythtv-users] 0.25.2 airplay and iTunes
Christopher Kerr
mythtv at theseekerr.com
Fri Aug 10 02:04:34 UTC 2012
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com>wrote:
> I have enabled airplay in Mythtv 0.25.2 and I can stream audio and video
> from my iPhone, which is pretty slick. However, sadly, I have an iMac from
> which I would like to stream music and I'm not so successful.
>
> In iTunes, I have the "box with the triangle" icon that displays when an
> AirTunes or airplay device exists on the network. When I click that, I see
> that it shows the monitor icon and not just a speaker icon next to "MythTV
> on mythtv.xxxxxxxx.com" (where xxxxx is masking my real domain), which
> indicates that it knows that it can stream video. But, when I go to select
> it, the icon momentarily turns blue and then it goes right back to black.
> When I attempt to select "multiple speakers" and select the MythTV
> checkbox, the box will not stay checked.
>
> I saw something previously which said that iTunes support was added to
> airplay in 0.25 fixes, but I haven't seen anything confirming that it made
> it into 0.25.2. Is anyone else having any luck streaming from iTunes to
> airplay on MythTV, and if so, do you have any insight as to why mine may
> not be working? Keep in mind that it does in fact stream from my iPhone to
> MythTV without any problems.
>
Audio-only streaming uses a different system which requires a valid RAOP
key to be present - this is documented somewhere on the Wiki.
Airplay for videos doesn't, to my understanding, use the RAOP key, so it's
possible to have one working but not the other.
- Chris
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