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VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:06
by HerrOrange
Hi there,

all in the press I read, that VLC 1.0.1 will support audio via AirTunes (Airport Express). But as I already learned, there is still no simple way to activate this. And I also learned, that the solution ist the "SOUT ROAP" Streaming-Protocol. But I didn't got it worked yet.

So... can anybody just tell me, how I have to fill out the input fields in the preference-menu of VLC? And which fields have to be filled out and which not?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:18
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
So far, there is no easy way to do it.

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:38
by HerrOrange
So the solution is just to wait for version 1.1.0?

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 23:19
by fkuehne
Regrettably, yes, unless I get a great idea how to implement this with little impact, so it could be backported to the 1.x branch. Don't worry, VLC 1.1 will be out this fall.

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 23:56
by danh
So far, there is no easy way to do it.
Is there any way to do it? I've been looking all over, but still haven't found a single piece of documentation :-(

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 10:29
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
yes, with --sout and #raop in command line.

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 11:33
by danh
yes, with --sout and #raop in command line.
That's what I thought. Care to enlighten me a little bit more?

The closest I got was

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VLC --sout='#transcode{acodec=alac}:raop{host=192.168.1.112,volume=255}' foo.mp3
which seems to do something, but VLC crashes immediately.

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 03:58
by thedzy
Put this in your default output stream:

# transcode {acodec = alac channels = 2, samplerate = 44100}: raop{host=your_airtunes_ip,volume=255}:display

I have not worked out how to get the video to still display but all audio is routed to the airtunes. If anyone can add to this it would be great.

I posted this in another thread: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=62267&start=0

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 17 Nov 2009 04:53
by thedzy
I'm trying to get the video to output to my screen and the audio to output to the AirTunes (and possibly my computer, but much lower on the priority). This is what I am trying to use:

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# transcode {acodec = alac channels = 2, samplerate = 44100}:duplicate{dst=std{display}, dst=raop {host=10.0.1.10,volume=255}}:sout-keep
The audio is going to the AirTunes but the video is just lost. Any ideas?

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 21:40
by M8Ritb8f9
I've had some success with the following

VLC
Preferences
All
Stream Output
Default Stream Output Chain

#duplicate{dst="transcode {acodec = alac channels = 2, samplerate = 44100}: raop{host=10.0.1.3,volume=255}:display",dst=display}

The streamed audio is out of sync (~1 sec) with the local video, but the local audio is in sync.

Re: VLC audio over AirTunes

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 22:28
by macuserfr
Hi,

I know there is a long time that no new answer is given on this thread, but I would like to do exactly the same. To stream the audio on airtunes (airport express) while playing the video locally. Now we already are on VLC 1.1(.11) and I couldn't make it work. I could play the audio on airtunes alone or duplicate, but the only way I can activate the video is playing the audio also locally.

I've tried to play with "Enable stream of all ES" and "Enable video stream output" options (disabled by default) without success.

Has anyone succeeded on playing the audio on airtunes while keeping the video on the computer?

Thanks in advance,

Vitorio