[OSX-Users] Re: Apple TV

[Christopher Gutteridge]

It's cheap enough I might get one unless someone has one they'd sell on?

On 24/04/2015 09:34, Andy Newton wrote:
> 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
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Christopher Gutteridge --http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
>> -- 
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>>
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>

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