[OSX-Users] Re: Apple TV

[Andy Newton]

AirPlay mirroring works nicely, other similar things are few and far 
between and generally don't work nicely.

AirPlay is apple-kit-only, so if you have e.g. a linux or windows box or 
an android phone you want to connect, you're out of luck. There's an 
open source audio-only implementation though, it's built into XBMC/Kodi.

If you have an existing OSX or windows box to run it on, AirServer 
(http://www.airserver.com/) is $15 and works fine with iOS/OSX devices 
for airplay mirroring. If you run it on windows (and have the right 
wireless adapter...) it'll do miracast, but miracast seems to be a bit 
of a mish-mash of implementations at the moment, so you might not find 
anything that'll talk to it.

Biscuits

On 24/04/2015 09:24, Jules Field wrote:
> AirPlay will mirror the video and audio to whatever the AppleTV is 
> connected to.
>
> See the "AirPlay" feature description on this page:
> http://store.apple.com/us/buy-appletv/appletv
>
> Jules.
>
> On 24/04/2015 09:20, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> How about audio?
>>
>> On 24/04/2015 08:58, Chris Andrews wrote:
>>> >From a Mac that's about 2011 or newer and running OSX 10.8 or newer 
>>> that's exactly what you can do with AirPlay display mirroring. I 
>>> think 10.9 then introduced AirPlay display extending which allows 
>>> you to use the ATV box as a separate monitor.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> (On phone, please excuse conciseness...)
>>>
>>> On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge 
>>> <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     The Apple TV boxes are pretty cheap now but I'm still not clear
>>>     on what they actually do. I loath iTunes and don't buy anything
>>>     through it, so that's not much use if that's the only way to
>>>     control it (as some of the online stuff seems to indicate).
>>>
>>>     What I was hoping was that it would just let you use the TV like
>>>     an external monitor and also send audio to it.
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>
>>>     University of Southampton Open Data Service:
>>>     http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>>>     You should read the ECS Web Team blog:
>>>     http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Gutteridge --http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>
>> University of Southampton Open Data Service:http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>> You should read the ECS Web Team blog:http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>
>
> Jules
>
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