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#1
Hi there!

I've been missing for a while the possibility to use AirPlay to broadcast from XBMC to Apple TV. Is that possible? It wouldn't be mirroring; just broadcasting the video stream, like iOS native AirPlay feature does.

What I mean is for XBMC to be able to broadcast through AirPlay from, say, a PC to Apple TV.

The reason why I would enjoy this feature is that i own a 3rd Gen Apple TV that, as everyone knows, has not yet been jailbroken, so I can not install XBMC on it.

Anyway, that's my suggestion. Thank you all for the attention and for this amazing piece of software tha is XBMC!

Another question, very similar to the one before, is that if Chromecast compatibility is being considered. Since Chromecast is a very neat and cheaper solution than Apple TV, it would be nice to have it working with XBMC.
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#2
I'd suspect you could do it audio wise if you use a linux with pulse audio installed.
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#3
AppleTV only eats some apple formats. This feature would need transcoding. Also it will not be added - at least if i am supposed to maintain it. (given the fact that the receiver part in XBMC already gives enough trouble to deal with).
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#4
I guess there are two options to implement this. 1) as videorenderer and audio sinks or 2) as a complete player.

I'm kindof in favor of the second approach, then we could just implement different controls for uPnP and AirPlay. It would make a nicer interaction for play using on uPnP also. Not saying that wouldn't be lots of work Smile
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#5
What does this give when the atv2 will not play back an mkv?
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