Apple’s AirPlay is a great technology. It lets you stream music and video wirelessly to Apple products like iPods, iPhones and to the Apple TV. It also can be used to stream to Apple approved hardware like speaker docks, AV receivers and stereo systems. The problem with it, like most Apple technology, if your not on the “Apple approved” list your SOL.
The thought of AirPlay being supported in open source software is unheard of, until now. The Totem media player, which installs by default on most Linux distributions, now has an unofficial plugin that will let you stream media via AirPlay.
Instructions
Clone the git repository
git clone http://git.sukimashita.com/totem-plugin-airplay.git
Move the files you just cloned (make sure you create the appropriate directories if needed)
mv * ~/.local/share/totem/plugins/airplay
That’s it. Start up Totem, enable the plugin and start to enjoy streaming media from any other AirPlay capable device. Now that the open source world has nailed down the AirPlay standard, it shouldn’t be too long before we start to see it supported in things like XBMC or Android.
[Link to Totem AirPlay Plugin]
AirPlay On Linux originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2011/01/22.
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