UxPlay v1.46

[fduncanh]

UxPlay is a GPLv3 unix AirPlay server: its main use is to act like an AppleTV for screen-mirroring (with audio) of iOS/MacOS clients (iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, etc.) in a window on the server display (with the possibility of sharing that window on screen-sharing applications such as Zoom) on a host running Linux, macOS, or other unix, using Apple's AirPlay Mirror protocol. Older iOS clients v. 9.3.5 and later are supported. When the client screen is not mirrored, Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio can be sent from the client to the server using Airplay protocol.

This work is based on https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay, with GStreamer integration from https://github.com/antimof/UxPlay. Tested on Debian 10.11 "Buster" and 11.2 "Bullseye", Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.10, Linux Mint 20.2, Pop!_OS 21.10 (NVIDIA edition), Rocky Linux 8.5 (a CentOS successor), OpenSUSE 15.3, macOS 10.15.7, FreeBSD 13.0.

ChangeLog 1.46 2022-01-20 Restore pre-1.44 behavior (1.44 may have broken hardware acceleration): once again use decodebin in the video pipeline; introduce new option "-avdec" to force software h264 decoding by libav h264, if needed (to prevent selection of vaapisink by autovideosink). Update llhttp to v6.0.6. UxPlay now reports itself as AppleTV3,2.

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This discussion was created from the release UxPlay v1.46.