Now, in my experience, there were still a few bugs when using Media Streaming. You can adjust video transcoding quality in the Media Streaming Preferences tab This is a fantastic feature that essentially allows you to enjoy all the benefits of AirPlay with non-iTunes compatible files: you get buttery-smooth playback, playback control via Apple remote, lossless 5.1 surround sound, etc. AirParrot 2 introduces a new feature called Media Streaming that allows you to directly play media files on your Apple TV - or any other compatible receiver. That’s already pretty sweet, but there’s more. The Mirroring Preferences tab allows you to fine-tune performance for your particular machine This enables older Macs to enjoy the same features as the newer machines. AirParrot 2 also allows you to customize the audio and video transcoding quality to fine-tune performance for every Mac. If you’re running Yosemite, chances are your Mac will be more than capable to handle it. It’s a small app that lets you do screen-mirroring from any decently-specced Mac: it only requires a Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1 GB of RAM. And if your Mac is more than three years old, screen-mirroring is probably not supported to begin with.ĪirParrot 2 can solve all of these problems. It doesn’t create a buffer, which makes it extremely prone to jittering issues, and it doesn’t allow you to control playback with an Apple remote, which makes it a lot less convenient to use. Screen-mirroring works great for sharing your desktop or giving a presentation but in my experience, it’s really not ideal for watching video. Newer Macs (from 2011 on) can find a way around this by screen-mirroring their desktops to the Apple TV using AirPlay. But what about all those MKV and AVI files you’ve collected over the years? With AirPlay, you’re out of luck. However, as with most Apple technologies, there are several areas where AirPlay falls short.įor instance, AirPlay doesn’t support audio or video transcoding, so you can only play iTunes-compatible media from your Mac to your Apple TV. It works great and it’s the perfect way to watch all of your iTunes movies and TV shows on your big-screen TV instead of on your device. Here’s a perfect example of why you’d want to enable Mirroring.Today Squirrels introduced AirParrot 2, the next major version of their excellent screen-mirroring app for OS X (and Windows).ĪirPlay is an Apple technology that Macs and iOS devices use to stream audio and video to the Apple TV, among other things. We recently took a look at the new YouTube app for iOS. On your Apple TV, go to Settings > AirPlay and HomeKit. It supports AirPlay so you can watch videos on your HDTV with an Apple TV, but you have to enable Mirroring first. From here, you can give your Apple TV a unique name and assign it to a room so you can easily identify it when you use AirPlay. You can also choose who can stream content using AirPlay to your Apple TV: Everyone: Anyone can see and stream content to your Apple TV. Otherwise, it will only stream audio from the app and not the video. The AirPlay Mirroring feature isn’t available on all iOS devices. Each Device needs to be running at iOS 5.0 or higher.Here is what you’ll need for it all to work. To enable it, double press the Home button twice to bring up the list of recently used apps. Swipe that menu from the left to the right. On the iPhone you might need to swipe a couple of times to see the following AirPlay icon. Tap on the icon and then Apple TV and toggle Mirroring On. With Apple TV Version 3 and a post 2011 MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion OS, you can stream your desktop to the TV via Apple TV dekka1948 said: ok I think they have sorted this problem And if you are an Android device user, you can follow the same process again by downloading Kodi from the app store followed by the Mirroring360 App, which will serve the same. You’ll also need to make sure that AirPlay is enabled on your Apple TV. There you go! Now you can watch video from the YouTube app on your HDTV and whatever else you want to display from your device.ĪirPlay Mirroring is a feature built into OS X Mountain Lion - provided you have a 2011 Mac or higher. If you want to add the feature to an older Mac or a Windows machine, check out AirParrot. Here’s a short video I captured showing AirPlay in action on my Apple TV.
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