[mythtv-users] Streaming mp3s from another machine?

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri Jun 10 04:15:00 UTC 2005


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(resurrecting an old thread)

Matthew Phillips writes:
> On 14/05/2005, at 12:17 PM, thor wrote:
> > On Friday 13 May 2005 10:06 pm, Matthew Phillips wrote:
> >> I think the best way for this to happen would be for the Myth box to
> >> act as an AirTunes server, which means it would show up as a pair of
> >> remote speakers to iTunes and anything else that groks that protocol.
> >> This just requires the use of Bonjour (nee Rendezvous) to advertise
> >> remote speakers (Apple has released the mDNS Bonjour utilities as
> >> OS), and the crack to AirTunes' encryption (http://www.cocoadev.com/
> >> index.pl?AirTunes) to be combined. Which, AFAICT hasn't actually been
> >> done yet.
> >
> > Non-trivial.
> >
> > Airport advertises itself as a raop server via
> > zeroconfig/rendezvous/bounjour/mdns-nom-du-jour. Raop (Remote Audio
> > Output Protocol) is rtsp/rtp, but with encryption added.

FWIW, I've just set up something similar to this, but with a linux laptop
as the backend/playlist-controller/UI machine.  Turns out esd works
perfectly ;)

Details here:

    http://taint.org/wk/RemotePlaybackWithEsd

- --j.
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