Apple Airplay in MediaPortal (5 Viewers)

[Scythe42]

I see. I have currently a lot other stuff I am doing for MP. But I put AirPlay support on my list of things to do....

 

[ntompson]

Thanks Scythe42. I appreciate that you and the rest of the MP dev team must be extremely busy. It is remarkable what the team has achieved together with MP. I only wish I had some time to contribute also. It would be fun!

 

[infinite.loop]

A usercase request I have from a customer atm. is mirrowing.

He wants to sit down in his livingroom. Normaly use his HTPC (MP 1.2.3), and then take his Ipad -> enable mirrowing, and show i.e. a website on the bigscreen.

I am currently investigating if http://www.airserverapp.com/ can jump on top of MP, display the mirrowed feed, and when mirrowing stops, get MP back in focus.

I've been looking at XBMC which apparently has AirPlay support.
Yet it does not support mirrowing and playback of videos and picture slideshows is _very_ unstable (audioplayback seems experimental on PC). XBMC and the IOS device also loose the connection a lot.

 

[Shukuyen]

Auto-hide cursor
Auto-hide other fullscreen applications
Password protection
Revert to previous state on exit
Jailbreaking not required
English, German, French, Spanish and Polish languages
Wake on Demand (using Apple's sleep proxy)
Optional computer name override
CPU and memory usage optimisations
Streamed content renders on top of FrontRow/XBMC/Plex
Close any 3rd party audio streaming app without disrupting audio
Forward a stream of audio to another iOS device


The specs sound great. Let us know what you find out

 

[Ericjuh]

Just install Areodrom and be done with it.

Tried it out after i was searing forums for best way to integrate airplay with mediaportal. Conclusion, it works great!

Although i stay a dutchguys, and i prefer it free, the Areodrom works great next to mediaportal.

Sadly i need to say that sinds the last few months i doesnt work well together. Movies are buffering the whole time and latetly it seems that haveing mediaportal open all the time results in a crash to areodrom.

 

[mbuzina]

I use airserver (3,99 $ for 1 license or 15$ for 5). Works fine, inkl. mirroring.

 

[infinite.loop]

I use airserver (3,99 $ for 1 license or 15$ for 5). Works fine, inkl. mirroring.

Yeah it is AWESOME!

Only downside -> you have to disable "always on top" in MP (in case you used that).
I already asked the airserver devs if they could implement a feature to minimize all running/fullscreen apps when airplay starts, and restore the previous state when it ends. Then you could also use "always on top" in MP.
They said they will look into it.

 

[Ericjuh]

I use airserver (3,99 $ for 1 license or 15$ for 5). Works fine, inkl. mirroring.

you play movies without buffering? And doesnt it crash on startup? Both problems i have with areodrom.

 

[mbuzina]

From the internets movies work fine. From my iPad / iPhone it sometimes needs some extra buffer time. Music works, but not in perfect quality (esp. when trying to sync).

 

[64mike53]

AirServer is a perfect app. For movies and pictures it works perfect.

The only downside is that you need to stop/pauze TV or Movie otherwise you have the sound of a movie and the movie you are streaming.

Hope it gets integrated in MediaPortal