[mythtv-users] Troubleshooting Airplay

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

Hi

On 28 November 2014 at 17:38, Max Barry <mythtv at maxbarry.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm struggling to get AirPlay working on MythTV v0.27.4-19-g65d92fd with
> multiple iDevices running iOS 7 and 8:
>
> - They can see and select "[TV icon] MythTV on [host]", but:
>
> - After selecting MythTV and attempting to play on an iDevice, nothing
> happens for a few seconds, then the play/pause button reverts. Sometimes
> it pops up a dialog box saying: "The operation could not be completed."
>
> Now the tricky part is MythTV is completely silent. I start
> "mythfrontend --loglevel debug -v audio,playback" and it displays a lot
> of stuff, including "RAOP Device: Listening for connections on port
> 5000" and "AirPlay: Created airplay objects", but when I try to AirPlay
> to it... nothing.
>
> I got suspicious that something was blocking the connection to the
> machine, but tcpdump shows the traffic...it's just that MythTV doesn't
> seem to do anything with it.

As it is today, only AirPlay Audio and Photo Sharing works well and reliably.

With iOS 8, Apple has changed things to make it close to impossible to
have reliable video working