[avahi] compatibility with official airplay release from apple

[John Stirling]

This is the official airplay source code release available to MFi licensees.

Sounds like avahi is not compatible enough for my purposes, but seems
pretty close.


On 16 January 2014 18:14, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Le vendredi 17 janvier 2014, John Stirling <ap.john.stirling at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> I'm attempting to use avahi (0.6.31) with the latest airplay source code
>> release from apple (it requires a bonjour port). Is anyone else
>> attempting the same thing ?
>>
>>
> Which airplay source code release from Apple? Have I missed something and
> Apple has opened its implementation?
> It would be very surprising considering they are now enforcing their
> FairPlay encryption scheme which hasn't been cracked yet.
>
>
>> There are some issues -
>>
>> avahi dns_sd.h is missing a few defines needed by airplay (patch attached)
>> DNSServiceGetAddrInfo doesn't exist in avahi and is called from airplay
>>
>> avahi HEAD doesn't seem to implement this function either and there
>> doesn't seem to have been much activity since the 0.6.31 release
>>
>> Has avahi been used as the bonjour part of an airplay port before ? Any
>> advice much appreciated.
>>
>
> Yes, if you consider reverse engineered version of it.
>
>  Look at shairport (audio only) library version. Available on most Linux
> distribution
>
>
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