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trusktr

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Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 12:32 am

How do I broadcast to a device?

I'm in Mac OS X, and I can't do anything. When I start Serviio console (serviio is already started) nothing happens. The second console icon appears, then it just quits after a few seconds.

Will the console (if it were to work) let me choose renderers (e.g. multiple devices around the house)?
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zip

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Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:54 pm

Re: How do I broadcast to a device?

Make sure you're not using Java 8 on OSX. The console will let you share some files and setup Serviio, you don't need it for the actual streaming.
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trusktr

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Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:00 pm

Re: How do I broadcast to a device?

zip wrote:Make sure you're not using Java 8 on OSX. The console will let you share some files and setup Serviio, you don't need it for the actual streaming.


I'm using Java 6. What I really want to do is broadcast any audio from my computer (e.g. playing music in my browser then broadcasting that sound from the audio card). Is it possible?
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zip

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Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:45 pm

Re: How do I broadcast to a device?

It's not really the main use case. For broadcasting you can use VLC, then perhaps add it to Serviio as a live audio stream which can be accessed from the devices - but if you want to play it on multiple DLNA devices around the house, they'll not be synced (they each use different buffering)
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trusktr

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Post Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:13 pm

Re: How do I broadcast to a device?

zip wrote:For broadcasting you can use VLC


For sure. Yeah, I'd just like to play music around the house on various devices at the same time. I looked at VLC but it doesn't seem to have an option to broadcast the system's audio. I'm surprised there isn't an easy way to do this. I spent 3 hours looking for apps and programs yesterday, but I haven't found anything. I was hoping for a 5-minute install this and that and boom, easy and done, but that wasn't the case so far.

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