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

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Tue May 8 00:30:02 UTC 2012


On 8 May 2012 09:32, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Tuesday, 8 May 2012, Scott Alfter wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've gotten my problem sorted out.  Setting MYTHTV_AIRPLAY in either (1)
> /etc/local.d/mythfrontend.start or (2) ~/.ratpoisonrc wasn't working.  I
> ended up creating a short shell script that sets MYTHTV_AIRPLAY and then
> starts mythfrontend.
> >
> >  Once that was done, I could stream video podcasts and YouTube videos
> without issues.  IIRC, the output selector shows two devices: one
> audio/video, the other audio-only.
>
>
> then you aren't running the new code.
>
>
> > In my little bit of experimentation so far, audio and video aren't
> synchronized when the audio is streamed to the frontend and video remains
> on the iDevice.  Unless that's solvable, I'd think that retaining
> audio-only output for video playback would be of limited utility.
>
> I suggest you upgrade your copy of mythtv then, because significant
> work was done on this matter, and A/V sync should be pretty much spot
> on.
>
> Note that's there's a bug with iOS right now. Whenever you pause or
> seek; the audio move forward about 50ms. So if you
> pause/play/pause/play 20 times, you'll be 1s ahead of the video.
> The bug shows up with an airport express too. I spent several days
> tracking that issue thinking that the problem was in our code, when in
> fact it's iOS getting their timestamp wrong
>
> >
> > Showing only one device per frontend would be more useful IMHO.  The
> output selector could get crowded pretty quickly if you have multiple
> frontends each causing two devices to show up.
>
> I agree. But what one can find useful, another may not.
> JY
>

Possibly this bug was fixed in 5.1.1?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/07/ios_five_dot_one_dot_one/

Cheers,

Anthony
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