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VLC+Airplay+AppleTV = audio but no video
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Last night, I tried to play an .mkv file* using VLC on my iPad via Airplay through an AppleTV. I could only get the audio to show up on my tv. No video. It was playing just fine on the iPad. I rummaged through all the VLC settings, but couldn't find anything relevant to the problem. I wandered over to the VideoLan forums, and it seems I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.
Any guesses why VLC only got the audio out over Airplay
* The .mkv was stored locally on the iPad. So, no networking/server voodoo was involved.
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There's no reason why it shouldn't just work.
I have some some flukiness with iOS and Airplay, sometimes re-starting both the iOS device and the ATV helped.
Have you tried that ?
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I wonder if it's some issue with the encoding.
Perhaps local playback is able to "recover" or work around it, but streaming is not.
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Try playing some other files.
If smaller .mkv file works, it might be a wifi bandwidth issue. Not enough capacity for the video stream.
if same-size .mov file works, it's Apple being stupid about .mkv files.
If a different player app works, it's a VLC bug or setting issue.
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I don't have another .mkv or a .mov of the same size to test, unfortunately. It was really just a one-off try, anyway. We streamed Amazon Prime all night last night without a hitch. I'm going to guess it's a VLC thing.
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