AirPlay running on XBMC Linux box

AirPlay. It's not just for Apple products anymore. The video you see on the next page shows an XBMC install on a Ubuntu Linux box running an AirPlay client service. As with the AirPlayer solution I wrote for the Mac, the XBMC application advertises on Bonjour and can be played to directly from the built-in iOS video menus.

In addition, several people have contacted me to mention that they're working on Windows adaptations as well. The photo below is a preliminary peek at an in-progress project being built by @infectionfx.

Thanks, davilla.

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Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/digsimhomelinuxorg#p/a/u/0/2oBfC…

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AirPlay. It's not just for Apple products anymore. The video you see on the next page shows an XBMC install on a Ubuntu Linux box running...

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Dodo

What about the other way i.e. using the Linux box running XBMC as an AirPlay server and the iPad as a client? Any possibilities?

January 07 2011 at 5:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

phillpafford

Since XBMC is supported what about Boxee?

December 23 2010 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MenacingM

Sweet, now if you could port airplayer to the first gen appletv or get this loaded into xbmc 10 on appletv 1st gen... There would be a lot of thankful aTV gen 1 users that previously felt left out of all the airplay awesomeness.

December 21 2010 at 9:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

woody

I cannot see - realistically - why anyone would want to stream content from a portable devic to a more full-featured device with a ton more storage.

December 21 2010 at 9:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Brett

I've got an HTPC, my friend comes over with a new movie on his iPhone. We can now watch that movie on my system.

Sure, plugging into the computer will give access to the iTunes content, but what about other media... this is a very cool development.

December 21 2010 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martijn

Wasn't it @digsim who did this, and created the video?

December 21 2010 at 4:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

outlyer

It'd be nice to see AirPlayer ported to the older/first-generation AppleTV.

December 20 2010 at 6:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Hamletpri2

wait, if it's streaming to xbmc, can't this work on apple tv first gen? I have xbmc running on that i'm pretty sure, but there's a big chance i'm wrong and don't really know what I'm on about at all here haha

December 26 2010 at 7:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SBP

This is awesome.. can't wait to see support like this on Plex and Windows..

December 20 2010 at 6:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply