is airplay fast enough for open emu / vice

[nathansz]

i’m replacing mac mini in living room with apple tv and the mac mini will run as media server from another room.

the only thing i haven’t sorted out is playing games in open emu and vice.

is airplay fast to stream open emu and vice games from the mac mini to the apple tv or am i going to need to keep the mini in the living room hooked up to the tv for this ?

thanks

 

[pmiles]

Your cable modem support multiple ethernet ports? One to your AppleTV. One to you Mini. AppleTV HDMI to the TV. Mini doesn't need to be anywhere near the TV. AppleTV however does (HDMI cable length). Since the AppleTV and the Mini are both on the same network, no Airplay necessary. Best solution.

Airplay, can work, but least desirable solution.

Playing games is another animal. Apple Arcade, no problems... WoW on your TV? Different problem to resolve as you are trying use a TV as a display. Computer games weren't written for that so hacks are necessary to make it happen.

 

[nathansz]

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[nathansz]

Your cable modem support multiple ethernet ports? One to your AppleTV. One to you Mini. AppleTV HDMI to the TV. Mini doesn't need to be anywhere near the TV. AppleTV however does (HDMI cable length). Since the AppleTV and the Mini are both on the same network, no Airplay necessary. Best solution.

Airplay, can work, but least desirable solution.

Playing games is another animal. Apple Arcade, no problems... WoW on your TV? Different problem to resolve as you are trying use a TV as a display. Computer games weren't written for that so hacks are necessary to make it happen.

i don’t really understand what you are saying in the first paragraph at all. i think you may be trying to answer a question i didn’t ask

as for the other bit. i’ve been playing games in open emu and vice on the mini plugged in to the tv for years with no issues

i tried to edit the original question for clarity

 

[priitv8]

If you intend to run a computer game over Home Sharing / AirPlay, instead of directly from HDMI of Mac Mini, the network speed is not the most important factor at all.
Bcz the Mini will need to encode+send graphics framebuffer in real time over network, its H.264 encoding speed will be the limiting factor.
You might try it, but I believe its CPU will not be able to encode anything faster than 24-30 fps. If your CPU supports Intel QuickSync (i.e. hardware video encoding). If not, then video encoding will be executed on same CPU as your game and you can expect even less fps.

 

[nathansz]

If you intend to run a computer game over Home Sharing / AirPlay, instead of directly from HDMI of Mac Mini, the network speed is not the most important factor at all.
Bcz the Mini will need to encode+send graphics framebuffer in real time over network, its H.264 encoding speed will be the limiting factor.
You might try it, but I believe its CPU will not be able to encode anything faster than 24-30 fps. If your CPU supports Intel QuickSync (i.e. hardware video encoding). If not, then video encoding will be executed on same CPU as your game and you can expect even less fps.

that makes sense.

it’s an i5 2012 mini so pretty weak cpu. i hadn’t thought out the frame buffer encoding being the bottleneck (i don’t really know how airplay works) so my expectations are certainly lowered

i’ll try it anyway and see what happens.

thanks for your input

 

[waw74]

Your cable modem support multiple ethernet ports? One to your AppleTV. One to you Mini. Since the AppleTV and the Mini are both on the same network, no Airplay necessary. Best solution.

it's still airplay.
It's just all on a wired network. so it will have a little bit better chance of working

 

[iMacDragon]

I believe airplay in general has more lag than would be reasonable for playing games.