2012-07-15, 21:26
I just installed the 7-14-12 nightly of xbmc (windows 7 x64) in hopes of trying out the new audio airplay feature. I'm happy to report that the audio and picture viewer features work well. However, airplaying video from my iphone 4s with IOS 5.1.1 is buggy. I'm not sure if it's XBMC, IOS, or the interaction between the two is the problem. I would like to hear from people if they are getting the same problem when airplaying a video to XBMC. I'm testing a 5 second home video. Zeroconf and Airplay turned on in XBMC.
Here is the situation
1) Select a video to play on iphone
2) Select XBMC as the airplay destination
3) Play video
4) Video Plays and the goes back to XBMC home screen
a) iphone still has "AirPlay" logo on screen and says movie is still playing.
b) Tap iphone screen and the "video position" indicator at top of screen is at the end of the movie
c) "pause" icon is active in lower center of screen.
Now if you tap the "pause" icon it then switches to the "play" logo and the video on the iphone screen reverts to the first frame of the video BUT the position indicator of it is still at the end of the video. If you press play at this time there is no response from XBMC.
If you slide the position indicator to the start of the movie and press play there is also no response from XBMC.
However, if you slide the video position indicator to the beginning of the viideo AND also re-select the Airplay destination to XBMC (note: it was already selected) and press play the video now plays on XBMC via airplay correctly.
This is repeatable.
Obviously this is not desirable and would like to know if this is a bug or just behavior that we have to deal with. Everything else works very nicely with xbmc/airplay and would hope the video part would be just as nice.
I would be more than happy to work with the devs to debug this problem.
Here is the situation
1) Select a video to play on iphone
2) Select XBMC as the airplay destination
3) Play video
4) Video Plays and the goes back to XBMC home screen
a) iphone still has "AirPlay" logo on screen and says movie is still playing.
b) Tap iphone screen and the "video position" indicator at top of screen is at the end of the movie
c) "pause" icon is active in lower center of screen.
Now if you tap the "pause" icon it then switches to the "play" logo and the video on the iphone screen reverts to the first frame of the video BUT the position indicator of it is still at the end of the video. If you press play at this time there is no response from XBMC.
If you slide the position indicator to the start of the movie and press play there is also no response from XBMC.
However, if you slide the video position indicator to the beginning of the viideo AND also re-select the Airplay destination to XBMC (note: it was already selected) and press play the video now plays on XBMC via airplay correctly.
This is repeatable.
Obviously this is not desirable and would like to know if this is a bug or just behavior that we have to deal with. Everything else works very nicely with xbmc/airplay and would hope the video part would be just as nice.
I would be more than happy to work with the devs to debug this problem.