Apple Airplay in MediaPortal (3 Viewers)

[RikP]

There is a AirmediaPlayer for Windows released.
Technology and Science: AirMediaPlayer for Windows

Is it a possibility to add this to MP? And how would this be integrated best?

What are your thoughts?

 

[DieBagger]

Depends on wether or not the sourcecode is available...

If it was, I think it would be quite easy to implement it as a mediaportal plugin.

 

[soberdor]

this would be great, as navigating through video sites like youtube is a lot easier on a mobile device compared to a media center remote.

+1

simon

 

[Fabrix67]

+1

Fabrizio

 

[fab.larosa]

+1 also for me.
Another Fabrizio

 

[nimrodel50]

+1

can this help?

airstream-media-player - Airplay client for Windows by Tom Thorpe - Google Project Hosting

 

[Shukuyen]

I started to implement airstream-mediaplayer into a MediaPortal plugin some months ago, I think. Sending photos is working (although slow if you send multiple photos, sending only one is fast). Then I tried to tackle video but making MediaPortal play videos from a stream was too hard. I tried to use code from mp-onlinevideos2 but didn't really know how that all works.

I will clean it up a little tonight and upload the very-very-alpha source somewhere. Maybe someone with more experience is able to help. Photos and (drm-free) video should be no problem, but audio is. Here Apple uses some kind of encryption. I think the private key of this is out there but using that would be a) illegal and b) too complicated for me

 

[Shukuyen]

Ok I uploaded the source to GitHub: https://github.com/Shukuyen/AirPortal
Please feel free to create forks, send pull requests and so on. I am grateful for any help as I don't know how to proceed with this.

An installer package should be available in the MediaPortal Extensions Installer (AirPortal 0.1 Alpha). Please make sure you have checked to see alpha releases.

 

[collaborator]

Is this AirPlay for Windows Media Center – Beta 1 « ThomasPleasance.com same plugin that you use ?

 

[Shukuyen]

No, the one I started is based on an opensource project called airstream-media-player (which has been abondoned :-/). I don't see any reference to other projects on the WMC page, so my guess is they wrote it from scratch.

nimrodel50 is looking into video support, so maybe we have something like this in the future