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ktjensen Wrote:also remember that AIRPLAY is not working on Verizon Iphones (if you use that). Has not been enabled for video yet, as they are only 4.2.8 and need to be 4.3 to work.
Unless you've jailbroken and installed one of the enable-airplay-in-3rd-party-app tweaks and/or just manually changed those config files yourself.
My Verison iPhone has been airplaying 3rd party app video to my ATV2 just fine.
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I've only newly started with the ATV2. Used season pass and running one of the very recent nightly builds with ios4.3 (hoping I can get this to the point of replacing my xbox1 shortly).
A couple of days ago whilst I was doing some mucking around with the ATV2, my son was playing a video on his ipod touch (non JB) and he noticed a new option to output to ATV. He clicked on this and it basically crashed the ATV2 to a black screen and even powering off / powering on etc would not bring the screen back from black (cant recall if I was in xbmc at the time although I suspect I was).
End result was I had to totally reset the ATV2 to factory and then re JB etc.
So, I had 2 questions.
1. The functionality of Airplay should be working all ok except for closing you out of XBMC?
2. Would there have been a better way to recover the ATV2 (like some sort of ssh reset command etc) than going all the way back through factory reset etc?
Appreciate any advice for ATV2 noob.
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patranus Wrote:The AirPlay protocol is known.
Why not just implement it within XBMC?
I would be very useful not only on AppleTV but all XBMC builds.
It's been done for XBMC on other platforms, but getting it to work in XBMC for iOS will take some more work.
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the airplay client for ubuntu (shairport/shareport) or any linux distro at that is not that great. it is still buggy and has buffer issues for many people. all its good for currently is audio streaming and even that doesn't work all that well. i expect this will likely be the only way it can run within xbmc.
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chrisjunkie Wrote:Also experienced this today.
I think it is due to the AppleTV wanting to display information about the music it is playing and that is incorporated into AppleTV.app.
What someone needs to do (I can't reverse engineer software to save myself) is figure out how this hook works and all the other various things and incorporate them into XBMC.
In fact, the thing that I think would work (please let me know otherwise) is if all the core AppleTV stuff was incorporated into an ATV only XBMC build and we just REPLACE the AppleTV.app with XBMC
Would that work?
Probably not
if I understand correctly:
Turning off airplay for the ATV2 is easy enough to do (so it wouldn't conflict with XBMC airplay). So is adding airplay support to XBMC. The problem is that the airplayer for XBMC depends on other software that would need to make its way over to iOS.
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Ah ok right that makes perfect sense.
Times like these I wish I could just do the conversion myself for the community!
What's the software used on other OSes? And what sort of things would have to be ported?
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2011-08-07, 20:31
(This post was last modified: 2011-08-07, 20:35 by AlexBooHu.)
This is why XBMC is crashing while playing songs over airplay:
If you start a song from iTunes there is at first only this little notification at the bottom left, which you can see on XBMC too. So when XBMC is not running and you do not push a key the "airplay music-player" goes to full-screen, means it shows just the cover and song-information, the normal atv menu is gone. So when XBMC is started the apple tv tries the same, but fails. Maybe because XBMC is already fullscreen. To proof my theory you can start XBMC, start a song over airplay from iTunes and push a button on the remote every 1 or 2 minutes. You will see XBMC will not crash. Hope somebody with the skills can write a fix for that.
EDIT: Of course this is only for songs. Haven't tried videos.