Comments on: How to Stream Favorite Movies (MP4 Files) From Linux Terminal to Your Apple TV

By: Darius

Darius — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:13:16 +0000

When the video is playing, in Terminal the progress bar is very incorrect – when the movie is 90% done it only shows 9%, so it is a ‘zero’ out – does anybody know how to fix this?

By: amon-sul

amon-sul — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:46:31 +0000

Not sure, but since I started a new default size terminal it seems to work for video. too.

By: amon-sul

amon-sul — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:22:13 +0000

Great stuff, I had some problems until I installed ruby, ruby-dev, make, automake, gcc, g++ - not sure if all were strictly needed. What was needed on top was "apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev". I managed to get mp3 playing via my Apple TV nicely. MP4 video shows picture and sound for a second or two and then crashes with an error. Anyone else got this - and maybe was able to fix it?

loading can take a few seconds...
=> press [q] to exit airstream
/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/ruby-progressbar-
1.1.1/lib/progress_bar/components/bar.rb:33:in `*': negative argument
(ArgumentError)
        from /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/ruby-progressbar-
1.1.1/lib/progress_bar/components/bar.rb:33:in `empty_string'

By: Hugh G Rekshin

Hugh G Rekshin — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 19:41:38 +0000

Anyone having problems installing Airstream may want to follow this link ( https://github.com/unused/airstream )to the Airstream Github page. Scroll down to “troubleshooting” on that page and follow the promts.
Though I had Ruby installed, I did not have Ruby Dev installed. I simply solved this by using the command
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev . After I had this installed/working, I entered this command sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev and then I was easilly able to install both gems, for airplayer and airstream by using these commands sudo gem install airplayer and sudo gem install airstream .

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:54:55 +0000

In reply to rk.

In my experience files smaller than 1GB will run, but files larger than 1GB will give that error. That’s what I’ve deduced, but you could be experiencing something different. I just shrink my video sizes a bit and everything plays A-OK.