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AirParrot: Airplay Mirroring from Mac to ATV
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This is what I have been wanting from Apple for awhile. Now that someone did it and it works good I am liking it. Already played Civilization on it and some other smaller games to see it in action with the new update. Works great. Now I am surfing the web on my big screen. The ability to put one app on the tv and keep others running on the computer is also nice. I have to try it with facetime now.
you'll be able to get it from apple in a few months. i can imagine it'll work better too. of course, you'll most likely have to upgrade unless your computer is less than a year old. good ol' apple.
depends on the source. it can be full screen, letterbox, or literally a mirror of whatever's on your computer screen.
I understand how AirPlay works on my iPad but how does this work in practice when you are doing from say a Mac Mini in the other room. I.E. Is there a Remote App on my phone to select what to watch. I was thinking this would be good for Hulu but seems like I would have to get up and walk into the other room to "control" the Hulu App. Also, I have Hulu Plus on my iPad but it prevents me from using AirPlay (which is crazy, when I can use Hulu Plus on my Roku). Is this a problem when using Hulu on the Mac. Also, will ML work different in this regard.
It's actually worse on my tv with bars on both right and left sides. Never was there before the software update. I use to get full screen mirroring on my tv using dot by dot. Now I have to set my tv to stretch mode to fill screen. So airparrot is now messed up after their upgrade.
Yes, I have everything on my imac at full screen when using airparrot and set for 1080p streaming on airparrot. Something in the airparrot update that the ATV3 does not like and will not display full screen. Working just fine before the update for 1080p mirroring.
Hey guys, I bought the app today after testing the video for a little bit, but I never tested the audio. I am unable to get any audio to work. It crashes the app when I try to enable the audio. Has anyone else has any problem with this? I have an email to their support right now, but haven't heard back yet.
On a side note, I have a 2.7 core i5 and am able to encode about 90 frames/second at very high quality in case anyone is curious.
On a side note, I have a 2.7 core i5 and am able to encode about 90 frames/second at very high quality in case anyone is curious.
Before I set airparrot to airplay mirror to my ATV 3 it shows that the audio is "enabled". So I proceed to enable airplay mirror my audio status changes to "disabled" So I go ahead and set my "audio output device to airparrot" after I do that I try to got to airparrot and "enable" audio but it just doesn't work.
When I do that Airparrot immediately shuts down and removes the mirroring.
I have tried to do it many different ways but just end up with the same results.
Looks like I'll have to email them.
This is the exact same problem I am having. I emailed them and got a standard response about restarting and such. I'm a little disappointed in their customer service so far. I'll give them a week until I ask for a refund.
Have you got the update? Before the update airparrot did that to me. Since the update, I just tap the device I want to mirror to, then tap enable audio. Works all the time. The first time it got me to get an addin that allowed the audio and restarted my computer, since works great.
They responded fairly quickly to my email and said I should try a "fresh" reinstall. But I would first need their removal tool. Which is found at this link.
http://airparrot.com/faq.php
I will try it tonight.
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"updated 1.6 dmg"...their latest version is 1.5 I believe.
This beta has fixed the crashing but it hasn't actually gotten audio to work for me. How about you?
Same as you still...no crashes and still no audio.
I used the removal tool to remove all files and reinstalled 1.3.1. I also had to reinstall the audio file but still no fix.
They seem to be making updates consistently but I'll email them again I guess.
They got back to me and said to disable homesharing on the ATV then re-enable it then restart the ATV then it will work. I did this and it did work. They said it has to do with the ATV choosing a port randomly and using the same port as the audio. Not sure why it would choose at random but the fix DID work for me.
Oh and I take back what I said about their customer service. Once they found the time today, we had a back and forth email conversation for 30 minutes!
seems like yall have it figured out, but i had to downgrade after the last update. it was trying to update the audio driver but it would never actually do it, so the audio wasn't working. downgrading fixed it though.
Hello, anyone try to mirror a DVD? I don't know much about this but I tried and I don't get visual. I only get a big checkered box. Since I don't really know why, I assume my video card/settings are not to par or AirParrot doesn't fully support it. It mirror my divx and iTunes movies just fine.
If I were to guess, I think apple encrypts/DRM their DVD player. They even block taking screen grabs using the built in screen capturing tool.
Since I have written a few times to complain about this software I felt it would be fair to write now that I have it working.
Turns out that the OSx firewall was causing my connection issues. Hit that sorted and it works great!!!
Very impressed, quality on high at Mac fps mirroring Hulu web app is pretty good and the connection according to my tv is 720p. Very smooth video and the audio is perfectly synced with picture and overall I am pleased and I paid the $10. Well worth IMHO.
My only issue is that I am not getting it to scale to my entire tv screen, under scan adjustments help but not enough I have a letterbox type picture.
Turns out that the OSx firewall was causing my connection issues. Hit that sorted and it works great!!!
Very impressed, quality on high at Mac fps mirroring Hulu web app is pretty good and the connection according to my tv is 720p. Very smooth video and the audio is perfectly synced with picture and overall I am pleased and I paid the $10. Well worth IMHO.
My only issue is that I am not getting it to scale to my entire tv screen, under scan adjustments help but not enough I have a letterbox type picture.
What was the setting you changed in your firewall. I'm having problems with lagging as as well.