.playing?

[bobbyduhbrain]

I am curious as to whether there is a way to ping the Apple TV to see if it is currently streaming content (similar to polling whether the 'player' object exists within the gem). This would be a handy feature for what I am using the gem for so I will take up the cause of trying to implement this if possible.

I know the gem tracks the state of the Apple TV based on its own interactions with the device. I am hoping there is a more abstract, generic way to see if the Apple TV is playing any content from any source (netflix, youtube, or other apps all together).

[bobbyduhbrain]

The reason I needed this was for implementing FF, however according to this:

http://nto.github.io/AirPlay.html

Fastforward is a remote command. As far as I can tell this doesn't fastforward or rewind, rather you can seek to a new position. I am going to add the Fastforward and rewind remote commands and submit a pull request.

[elcuervo]

This is really interesting. I'm going to try to see what can I do. ^_^