[Feature request] Airplay sender and receiver

[steve1977 67]

Would love to see both airplay receiver and airplay sender being implemented. I would assume that these are separate feature requests, but given they impact so many platforms, let me keep in one.

 

Let me explain a bit more:

 

Airplay sender

Relevant for: MBS, iphone app, ipad app, android app

Allows sending a streaming movies to an airplay receiver (could also be a non-MB receiver such as an ATV)

 

Airplay receicver

Relevant for: MBT, Roku app

Allows receiving streaming movies from an airplay sender (coudl also be a non-MB sender such as my computer with itunes)

 

 

Any thoughts?

[moviefan 184]

Airplay already works for iphone App with regular IOS AirPlay feature - as long as you disable screensaver.

 

Sender from the MBS would be cool for right now - but I would much rather just have an MB IOS App for ATV.

 

I see some usefulness for this functionality but in general I think a world where there is an MB app for every device that can all talk to the same server will work much better than using protocols like Airplay that have a lot of limitations and drawbacks.   If for some reason it is significantly easier to build Airplay functionality into MBS now and we aren't likely to get an ATV App any time soon then I would be on board with MBS AirPlay sender option.

[BC101 31]

moviefan, since when would Apple allow a proper ATV App like MB3? There's no 3rd party app market place on the Apple TV, the new apps just show up (pushed from Apple) very infrequently.

It won't even allow a legitimate Plex app which I'm sure they've looked into getting.

There are workarounds tho: see http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/2463-running-mb3-on-apple-tv-3

Edited December 28, 2013 by BC101