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this would be interesting, start a movie in the bedroom, send audio to iPod Touch, listen to movie through headphones, and not wake anyone.
+1 to this idea.
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XBMC works like new iTunes?
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I tried to get this working several times. You can get pretty close, but the problem you run into is the delay in the streaming puts the audio out of sync. It can work for music, but video is too much work.
It MIGHT be possible under linux to pipe your system audio through mpd and and set up an mpd client on your phone. That would give you a constant delay so you could set the audio delay by default not have to fool with it each time you start a video. The draw back would be the audio being delayed for everything outside xbmc as well. I haven't tried this myself, but it's as close to a working solution as I could come up with.
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XBMC does have an option on the OSD controls to adjust for audio lag. While watching a video bring up the on-screen-display, select audio, and select audio offset.
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(2012-08-13, 18:37)Bstrdsmkr Wrote: The problem I ran into was the delay was slightly different for each piece of content. That meant dialing in the delay each time you wanted to watch something, which is the "too much work" part I mentioned above
That's the problem with using Wifi.
Maybe if there was an app that allowed the smartphone to act as bluetooth headphones, as bluetooth doesn't have lag issues.
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I would love this feature to be implemented across all the platforms if possible.
I made a similar post (sorry hadn't seen this one) suggesting that people be able to listen to different tracks simultaneously.
As for the out of sync issues the audio offset being built into the device would solve this or maybe a script could adjust it by pinging the device and figuring out the delay automatically?
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This obviously doesn't fix the lag issues but what if xbmc could act as an AirPlay source (as well as a receiver). That way with an app like Airfoil I could receive the audio. This would have the dual benefit of allowing music to be sent to AirPlay speakers (wirelessly).
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I guess in a perfect world we would have some way to sync audio output from various XBMC installs. Since both iOS and Android now have XBMC ported to them, that would work for this situation as well as outputting synced multi-room audio for music.
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Mythtv has implemented the airtunes audio sync. Its just that its hard to merge this with xbmc audio stuff. I don't know anyone who is willing to even think about it.
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