Apple Airplay

[Kim Johnsson]

Hi!

More AppleTV-related than AirPlay, but still: I just ripped my DVD movie
and music video collection onto hard drive as ISO files (600+ discs), and
with a jailbroken AppleTV running FireCore aTV Flash I can just select the
disc I want to watch and press Play and that's it. Apart from a few
exceptions, works like a charm: the files play just like the original
DVD's. Once it's that easy, there's really no excuse not to watch Peter
Gabriel / Ultravox / OMD / Goldfrapp / Depeche Mode / Björk etc live every
evening :-). And while ripping, I found a lot of stuff I didn't even
remember I had. Have to get a BlueRay drive and do the same for my BR
discs. After that I'll stop buying movies on physical media.

I have an AirPort Express in the kitchen, but it keeps dropping in and out
of the network irritatingly often. Any ideas?

I also share the same physical iTunes library (on file level) between my
basement PC (my iTunes server) and my main machine, and that keeps
everything nicely up to date and in sync. For some reason, however, the Mac
Mini in my living room can't connect to the same iTunes library as the
PC's, it complains about files being locked or insufficient privileges or
some such. I'll have to look into that.

But all in all, the Apple stuff has really earned its place in the Johnsson
household as far as everyday digital entertainment is concerned.

As a side note, for the last five years, I haven't had any sort of live TV
reception. There's an antenna on the roof, but the antenna and TV aren't
connected. However, I can watch live TV (not all local channels, though) on
my iPad, and just AirPlay it to the AppleTV and then watch it on the big
screen. I'm currently on the lookout for a Mac software which does the same
thing, so I can free the iPad, as it can't stream in the background.

Cheers,

Kim


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <
andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea the audio stuff has been around for a while, though I admit I never
> took much advantage of it till now as well. The cool new stuff is video
> airplay from the iPad (or mac) to the apple tv. You can mirror the screen
> to the tv and some apps have dual screen mode. Though I did find when
> mirroring music making apps there is a bit of latency in the audio, which
> makes playing say iMPC difficult. Have any of you guys seen this latency
> also? I wonder if it's just when doing video as well?
>
> On Dec 31, 2012, at 2:35 PM, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now get an apple TV or Airport Express with a set of speakers hooked
> > up to them. It's so awesome for me to pick up my iPod Touch and select
> > which speakers I want music to play through and control the volume for
> > each set. Very cool indeed.
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >> This is probably old-hat to you guys but: got a iPad for Christmas and
> this
> >> now plays a central storage iTunes library (its not copied to the iPad,
> it
> >> actually plays the central 35Gb ish library).  This is pretty cool..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> But it now gets cooler..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yesterday I got an Airplay device as my trusty stereo finally developed
> >> another fault.  Got a Marantz MCR603
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.whathifi.com/review/marantz-m-cr603  (it looks a lot more
> classy
> >> in real life..)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So I can now play iTunes from the iPad, choosing to use either the iPad
> >> speakers or the Stereo.  This is also the same with YouTube and other
> catch
> >> up TV.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It works really well..  I don’t think Apple suck quite as much anymore
>  J
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul
> >> London
> >> www.punkdisco.co.uk
> >> Text SLUT to: 29 7 29 7
> >>
> >> Here’s the video:  www.youtu.be/Zl0PTZKy7fg
>
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