Air Play Mirroring: No sound

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Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby cawtout » 30 Jul 2012 01:22

MacBook Air 2011 running Mountain Lion.

When playing video with VLC and air play mirroring to Apple TV, video plays through TV fine but audio continues to play through the MacBooks speakers. I had watched many videos without this problem and then occasionally the sound wouldn't mirror when starting a new mirroring instance or new VLC instance. Restarting the mirroring and VLC several times would often resolve the problem eventually. I couldn't detect why it would sometimes work and sometimes not. Now it won't resolve despite rebooting the computer and reinstalling VLC.

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby fkuehne » 31 Jul 2012 18:48

Weird.

Honestly, VLC wasn't tested with AirPlay due to the lack of a testing environment. I'll see if I can emulate one with a 2nd Mac in the next few days to squash these bugs.
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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby cawtout » 02 Aug 2012 12:52

Hi Felix, yes, it is weird. If you need any further details, let me know.

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby Parrish » 08 Aug 2012 22:21

I have the same problem,

Video streams good, but no sound. Is there a solution?

ThX

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby phree10956 » 12 Aug 2012 21:32

I am having the same problem. Has anyone figured out a solution yet? Thanks!!

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby fkuehne » 14 Aug 2012 12:13

Sorry, but there is no solution so far.
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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby DarkKnightPrime » 30 Aug 2012 01:23

Sorry if this got fixed somewhere else... But I thought I was having this same issue yesterday... But under the "Audio" menu I had the option to select "Air Play Device" instead of "Built in device" or something like that. Fixed the problem.

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby fkuehne » 31 Aug 2012 11:38

I set up a testing environment for AirPlay on Mountain Lion yesterday and indeed, if you switch the audio device as hinted here, it works great, both for sound and video.
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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby wsender » 02 Nov 2012 02:06

Has any progress been made on this issue? Changing the Sound Output in Preferences has no effect.

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby fkuehne » 02 Nov 2012 13:04

It works correctly for me if you switch the output device in the "Audio" menu.
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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby wsender » 02 Nov 2012 17:10

From within the 'Audio" menu of VLC there is no output device switching option, at least I'm not seeing it...

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby nick76 » 08 Nov 2012 23:08

I had the same problem. If you turn on AirPlay Mirroring while VLC is open it does not work.

You must switch on AirPlay mirroring before opening VLC player.

NW

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby punny » 13 Nov 2012 10:45

I have had this problem for a while now, .Your solution solved my problem.
many THANKS

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Re: Air Play Mirroring: No sound

Postby pkiula » 15 Jan 2014 15:59

Same problem here. When I set "Airplay" as the audio device, the video becomes very, very choppy. Basically plays for a second, then waits for 6-7 seconds. This is basically unwatchable. What am I missing?

I'm trying to play the VLC video on my iMac, but want to play the sound on Cambridge Audio's "Minx 100" speaker.

Thanks for any ideas!


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