ATV2 without display for AirPlay, audio only

Hi, I don't have a TV and use my Mac or iPod touch to watch DVDs or listen to music etc. I do however have a home stereo, and would like to hear stuff from the Mac and iPod there.
It appears that the Airport Express will not work because it doesn't support AirPlay from iOS devices, however if I read correctly the ATV2 will work with AirPlay both from iOS and from iTunes on a Mac.
Now I've still got some questions that I'hoping somebody here can help me with:
- If I set up the ATV2 once with a screen, will I be able to use it without a display connected as an audio-only AirPlay system, or will I need a display, and if yes for what?
- Is there any way to get AirPlay to stream only the audio portion of a video so that I can watch the movie on my Mac but with wireless audio output on the stereo via the ATV2?
Thanks

In theory it should work, but some recent firmwares broke 'headless' audio and required HDMI to enable optical out.
They have supposedly fixed this but I've not moved AppleTV to hi-fi room to check.
Airport Express certainly does support audio Airplay from iOS devices, I have an older one and use it for this often.
What I'm not sure about is whether or not when playing video it will allow audio output alone or just fails because it's video - it should work with a stereo soundtrack i would say but AC3 would not be supported I suspect.
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