[OSX-Users] Re: Apple TV

[Chris Andrews]

Got one I might consider parting with. It's not used much now I have an
Amazon Fire TV and a Mac Mini. Mail me off-list with an offer :)

Chris

On Friday, April 24, 2015, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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.
>>
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>>
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>> You should read the ECS Web Team blog:
>> http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>
>>
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>
> Jules
>
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