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[REQ] Linking Zones When Video Is Playing

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glynor:
I'd really like the ability to link zones regardless of their types.  If the Zone can't play video, for whatever reason, then just play the audio.

Here's an example of how I want to use it: I want to be able to link an audio-only zone (my porch speakers) to my regular zone on my system, and have them play the audio from the main zone.  Even though the porch zone can't play the video (I suppose without a detached display open, but there's no screen there anyway in my case), I want to be able to extend the playback to the porch and have them work, even if I play a short video clip, or someone picks a music video.

I realize the sync might not be perfect in these cases, or worse than usual, but that's not a massive deal in all cases.  Also, it seems like you could do it pretty well, if you were able to (at least with local zones on the PC) decode once and play to all devices.

Don't know if it is a pipe dream or not, but it is the one annoying limitation of the current Zone Linking system.

jmone:
Yup I too have a use case where I want one device to play the Video Stream (on a PJ) and another device to play the Audio (feed an amp).

Hendrik:
The reason this isn't allowed is that its rather inconsistent. Video can , for technical reasons, only play in one local zone. How do we determine which zone to use for that? There is no concept of primary zone as such.

jmone:
True - I guess in my use case (and it is very infrequent) I want the audio to go to a non local audio renderer (such as another instance of MC, a Zone, DLNA device etc).... if that makes sense?

Hendrik:
Remote zones would probably work even less. With audio you just tell it to play the same file at the same time. But if you want only the audio of a video file, well good luck convincing a remote device of that.

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