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Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby the-ninth » 27 Nov 2020 17:06

Hi,

Is Airplay available in VLC 3.0.11 under Windows?

I have an Apple TV on my network, but under "Renderer", VLC shows only "<Local>" and greyed out "Scanning...".

I would like to play a DVD on my Windows PC and show it via Airplay on the Apple TV.

Thanks for your help!

Regards, Robert

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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby Hitchhiker » 27 Nov 2020 18:00

Airplay isn't available in the current version of vlc as far as I'm aware, but is likely to be included in the forthcoming version 4.0

See this article on the subject: https://mspoweruser.com/vlc-announces-a ... ndows-app/

There are nightly builds of v4.0 available now if you want to experiment: https://nightlies.videolan.org/

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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby the-ninth » 28 Nov 2020 07:04

OK, great thanks, will be eagerly awaiting v4 then! Actually stumbled over an article on chip.de which said VLC supported Airplay, but I guess that is fake news then. ;-)

Regards, Robert

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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby Hitchhiker » 28 Nov 2020 12:39

OK, great thanks, will be eagerly awaiting v4 then! Actually stumbled over an article on chip.de which said VLC supported Airplay, but I guess that is fake news then. ;-)

Regards, Robert

That article refers to vlc for Mac, not Windows.

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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby the-ninth » 29 Nov 2020 18:47

Ah, OK, now I understand, thanks for the clarification.

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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 29 Nov 2020 21:18

AirPlay is available on MacOS and, via PulseAudio, on Linux because those systems expose the AirPlay device as a regular sound card. There is no bespoke AirPlay support in VLC at this time.

(There may be third party software to expose AirPlay as a Windows audio device, but I do not know of any in particular.)
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Re: Airplay available unter Windows?

Postby Hardcore Games » 10 Dec 2020 21:52

I was also inquiring about an alternative to iTunes for streaming to the Apple TV box such as VLC

I was not able to get VLC to login to windows 10 for shares etc
Windows 10 with 4K screen, lots of storage
Apple TV 4K, cheap 4K television


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