{"id":367,"date":"2011-05-25T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/25\/airplay-for-windows-media-center\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:59:19","slug":"airplay-for-windows-media-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/25\/airplay-for-windows-media-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Airplay for Windows Media Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

It had to happen, and I\u2019m glad it did. Thomas Pleasance<\/a> has produced a nifty add-on for Windows Media Center that allows AirPlay from an iPad to Windows Media Center. It is currently at beta 1 stage and is documented to work only with videos (and YouTube) on the IOS device. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ll need to install Dot NET 3.5 if it isn\u2019t already present, Bonjour from http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL999<\/a> and finally the app from his home page. <\/p>\n

After running the install (it is a little quirky, see the comments posted on his page), I was indeed able to stream from my iPad to Windows Media Center. I fired up Videos on my iPad and selected Avatar (which I ripped from my owned BD Ray movie).<\/p>\n

I touched the AirPlay icon to display AirPlay enabled devices<\/p>\n

\"airplay3\"<\/p>\n

and sure enough, I could select Windows Media Center!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"airplay4\"<\/p>\n

Both the iPad and the WMC machine were on 802.11n 5GHz wireless and it didn\u2019t take long at all for the movie to start to stream on WMC.<\/p>\n

\"airplay3wmc\"<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, I could drag the timeline with a mouse and playback started instantly from that point. I didn\u2019t have any video or audio issues at all. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Even though the app is not currently supposed to work with Photos on the iPad, I tried a slide show, as I see that as a more important application for me than videos. I was able to manually move between 5 or 6 photos before WMC froze, but the potential is there.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m all for a universal ecosystem of smart, connected devices, and I love seeing apps like this one. I\u2019m not seeing the app show up in the Extra Libraries (it IS registered) so I don\u2019t know if the app can send content FROM MCE to an iPad (but I would really like to see that since that would have more real world use for me).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kudos to Thomas Pleasance for these first steps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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