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VLC is adding AirPlay support and will reach 3 billion downloads
VLC, the open-source video player app, is announcing two major milestones from CES today. The development team, Videolan — along with Jean-Baptiste Kempf, one of the lead developers — told Variety at CES that it'll be adding AirPlay support, allowing users to transmit videos from their iPhone (or Android) to their Apple TV.
The update could be released for the primary VLC app in "about a month," for free. However, VLC tells The Verge there's no specific release date yet.
[...] The second major milestone for VLC is that it’s closing in on 3 billion user downloads.
Here is the bug tracker for the 4.0.0 release.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 11 2019, @06:40PM (1 child)
Ah, that did the trick. Interesting thing though, is when I opened the mpv executable the first time it just brought up a blank white box. After I played an mp3 file from the command line. I was able to open the executable, the box was black with a giant icon and instructions to drag/drop a file or url onto it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by pbnjoe on Friday January 11 2019, @10:49PM
Glad it's working for you now. The correct behaviour is indeed the latter. Enjoy! If you stream videos pretty much anywhere [github.io], give the youtube-dl tie in a try as well. Cuts all the cruft so you have just the video. If you just want the audio, you can pass --no-video or give --ytdl-format= a number of an audio only stream, such as 251 on YouTube. That can be found by running youtube-dl -F $LINK. That way you can just stream it instead of having to download the file like with youtube-dl alone.