Dropped video playback

[cwbeck]

It would appear that the video will on play for a few seconds before dropping. I have tested on OSX and Ubuntu with multiple files and sources.

Do you have any idea why this happening?

var browser = require('airplay').createBrowser();

browser.on('deviceOnline', function(device) {
    console.log('device online: ' + device.id);
    device.play('http://www.wowza.com/_h264/BigBuckBunny_115k.mov', 0);
});

browser.start();

[cwbeck]

Further testing would suggest it drops connection at 60 seconds from time of open connection... (both OSX & Ubuntu)

[benvanik]

Odd - I think the Apple TV doesn't like it when the client that started playing goes offline and will stop the video. It's possible that a newer node version has some kind of 60s timeout that is causing the socket to drop.

Ben Vanik http://www.noxa.org

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Christopher Beck [email protected]:

It would appear that the video will on play for a few seconds before dropping. I have tested on OSX and Ubuntu with multiple files and sources.

Do you have any idea why this happening?

var browser = require('airplay').createBrowser();

browser.on('deviceOnline', function(device) { console.log('device online: ' + device.id); device.play('http://www.wowza.com/_h264/BigBuckBunny_115k.mov', 0); });

browser.start();

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[cwbeck]

I have tried forcing keep alive on the socket. Out of ideas how to prevent the connection timing out. I can't find anything in the nodejs config that would override the default of no-timeout on the net package.

[renelaerke]

According to this resource (http://nto.github.com/AirPlay.html#servicediscovery-airplayservice) AirPlay utilizes reverse http.

It would seem that opening a second http connection to receive events should solve the problem.

Another - tested solution - would be to continiously query for playback status every X seconds (X being lower than the timeout) Seems to work - but reversing the http flow would seem more elegant.

I'm not much of a node-ninja yet, but when I get arround to it maybe I'll have a crack at it!

[queso]

@renelaerke,

Which query were you running to keep the connection alive? I am trying to use this package in meteor.js and having a heck of a time sorting it all out.

[renelaerke]

Long time - but there is a /getstatus or similar you can poll every 10 second!

Sent from my iPhone

On 03/06/2013, at 03.40, Josh Owens [email protected] wrote:

@renelaerke https://github.com/renelaerke,

Which query were you running to keep the connection alive? I am trying to use this package in meteor.js and having a heck of a time sorting it all out.

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