[mythtv-users] Airplay alternative?

Jean-Yves Avenard jyavenard at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 17:04:38 UTC 2012


On 14 August 2012 18:04, Staffan Pettersson
<staffan.pettersson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I went to a friend last weekend and hi was playing Spotify on an Ipad
> to his Airplay receiver. After that i set off reading about doing the
> same thing to my mythtv frontend. I saw that pulseaudio had support
> for the Raop protocol but was not able to get this to work. Mythtv
> shows up has a sound source on my ubuntu laptop but when i choose it
> there is no sound and it seems to kill the pulseaudio deamon :=(,
> After reading more about airplay and pulseaudio i found out that this
> funtion is pretty buggy and using tcp rather then udp :=(

Seems to me that there's a fair amount of confusions here...

1) Mythtv can act exactly like an AppleTV and iOS (iPhone, iPad etc..)
 and iTunes can output audio remotely to the myth frontend.



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