[blindav] Re: [blinded] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport devices
- From: "Frank" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 04:03:52 -0500
Diego, the PC is actually my laptop which is moved around the house
liberally. The AppleTV is connected to the stereo. I don't have the video
connected as it is only a 2 channel audio system and I wouldn't have any use
for the video anyway.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Diego Demaya
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:04 AM
To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindav] Re: [blinded] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport
devices
Frank,
Is there a special reason why you want to stream into the Apple TV? I mean,
having a PC connected to the sound system would yield superior sound than
filtering anything, including video content, via the Apple TV. Since I don't
have an Apple TV, I am quite curious about your adventure here.
Diego
-----Original Message-----
From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Frank
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 10:08 PM
To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindav] Re: [blinded] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport
devices
Diego, all the decoding will be done PC side. I merely need something more
reliable than Airfoil to do the streaming via the Airplay protocol to the
AppleTV.
Thanks
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Diego Demaya
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 4:57 PM
To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindav] Re: [blinded] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport
devices
You may be expecting to run into some compatibility problems with AppleTV.
The question is, are you going to decode at the PC level or are you going to
have the AppleTV decode the material you watch or listen to? I do not have
AppleTV. However, I have read that it is very limited in the formats that it
can play. For example, I do not believe that AppleTV can play MKV or FL a
C files.
Diego
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Frank <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Diego, OK basically what I am trying to do is stream the audio for
> a variety of programs on my PC (and maybe my Mac as well) to my
> AppleTV over wy-fy. I don't need to do this when using iTunes because
> Airplay is built in but I use a variety of other applications that
> don't natively support Airplay.
> I would appreciate any suggestions other than Airfoil which is user
> unfriendly and occasionally crashes.
>
> thanks
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Diego Demaya
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 6:25 PM
> To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [blindav] Re: [blinded] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport
> devices
>
> Hello guys,
> Why would you want to pay $40 or any amount of money for something you
> can get for free?
>
> You can download several applications from the app store and implement
> what you want at no cost
>
> I am assuming that you mean to stream music or video via the Internet
> to your personal device from your computer base at home.
>
> I have done this quite easily several times.
>
> If anyone is interested, let me know on this board and I will bring
> you the name of the applications.
>
> Since I have not used this feature for a long time now, I do not
> remember the names.
>
> Cheers,
> Diego
>
>
>
>>> On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Gary Schindler <garys5462@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> How is airfoil these days? Google for the app for windows and see if
>> you
> can get the thing to work for you.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Frank
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:40 AM
>> To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [blindav] Re: re streaming from a PC to airport devices
>>
>> Hi Michael, totally blind myself I have no problems using iTunes on
>> either the PC or Mac and when the audio is in iTunes that is no
>> problem I can merely click on airplay and stream it out to where it
>> needs to go. The problem comes when I am trying to stream audio that
>> is not in iTunes, for example when playing something from a web
>> player in Internet Explorer. I guess it is what it is, workable but
>> not
friendly.
>> Frank
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
>> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:11 AM
>> To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [blindav] re streaming from a PC to airport devices
>>
>> Frank:
>>
>> Unfortunately, sometimes it is what it is, you may have to put iTunes
>> on your windows PC to get this to work to the level you want.
>> I use an iMac and have no issues what so ever with streaming to my
>> Denon, or apple TV, when I owned 1. As I'm mainly a Mac user, I don't
>> know how accessible the windows version of iTunes is.
>> You might be able to work with it better than me as I'm totally blind
>> and require speech. Also, you may have to simply use your phone, if
>> your an iPhone user as allot of us are.
>> If your not an iPhone user and an Android, perhaps you and I could
>> have a discussion about Android. I'm kind of leaning towards this
>> platform as the iPhone 6 is out of my budget and I'm finding that
>> apple, which I've termed crapple, LOL is beginning to fall down on
>> their
> laurels a little.
>> There some airplay apps for android, not sure how they work as I've
>> only played with droid for 2 days and had to return the phone.
>>
>> Michael R
>>
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