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by BlackFingolfin 2019 days ago
With "media server" I generally meant: "device hooked up to the speaker and AV receiver for video playback, couch surfing, perhaps the occasional game (mostly via emulators).

Yeah, adding the microphone and camera is going beyond that, but it's convenient to use the computer already hooked to the TV instead of, you know, hooking up yet another one. Also, how does Airplay give me access to the camera mounted on top of the TV (an old phone, BTW)? Also, how is that relevant for my comment at all? :-)
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lostlogin 2018 days ago
Airplay can share a screen and through that it can share a FaceTime call - or at least I thought it could and Googling suggests it can. This entirely depends on your ‘old phone’ being an iPhone.

www.macrumors.com/how-to/mirror-facetime-call-apple-tv-airplay-2-smart-tv/amp/

> Also, how is that relevant

It isn’t particularly, I’d just never heard of a media server doing video chat and was wondering about it.

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