Can you use AirPort Express to stream audio to the stereo from a DVD player?

November 18, 2004 7:56 AM

AirPort Express allows you to stream audio to your stereo from iTunes, and only from iTunes. I would love it if I could get it to stream audio from the DVD player as well, but this is probably a fool's errand. Unless...

Is there a way to make a local source of audio look like an internet radio station? To generate a stream that iTunes can grab onto? If that could happen, then it would be the answer I'm looking for (provided you can maintain the original quality -- or close enough).

If there isn't a solution for this already, I'm kind of hoping someone more tech-y than I will run with the idea.

posted by o2b to computers & internet (3 comments total)

Nicecast can do it, but the latency of AirTunes will make the audio play much later than the video.
posted by thebigpoop at 8:17 AM on November 18, 2004

This hint from macosxhints.com explains how, by using VLC to transcode and compensate for the latency.
posted by O9scar at 8:30 AM on November 18, 2004

Oh boy am I happy...
posted by o2b at 8:45 AM on November 18, 2004