[mythtv-users] Is mythfrontend's AirPlay support supposed to be audio-only or audio-and-video?

Michael mythtv at blandford.net
Fri May 4 17:12:30 UTC 2012


On 05/04/2012 09:19 AM, Scott Alfter wrote:
> I upgraded from 0.24-fixes to 0.25-fixes a couple of days ago...so 
> far, so good.  I found the bit about stashing an RSA key in a file 
> under ~/.mythtv, and the bit about making sure MYTHTV_AIRPLAY is in 
> the frontend's environment.
>
> So far, I've tried sending audio and video from my iPhone 4. I also 
> have an iPad available for testing, but haven't tried sending from it. 
> (Both devices are jailbroken and running iOS 5.0.1.) When it's on WiFi 
> at home, the output selector shows up and allows selecting the 
> frontend as an output device. Audio works great, but video isn't 
> getting sent.  I've tried a YouTube video (with the YouTube app), a 
> video podcast (with the Videos app), and streaming video from a 
> webpage (with iCab).
>
> Others have reported getting video working.  I'm running Git revision 
> 2a2af9f7f7b66c13b7cb4e65149acbf6088f4cbf from the 0.25-fixes branch, 
> built on AMD64 Gentoo with the mt-mythtv Git ebuilds.  emerge -pv 
> mythtv produces this output, showing which USE flags are active:
>


Video is working for me.  I have streamed a movie and youtube works as 
well.  If the MYTH_AIRPLAY variable is in the environment for the 
frontend, you should see TWO Airplay devices from your frontend.  If you 
don't, then it is likely the variable isn't be found by the frontend 
correctly.

  Michael



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