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No AirPlay On 2010 Imacs

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robbone

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Oct 7, 2011
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What a joke so i call apple today and they say airplay dont work on the 2010 model imacs just the 2011 and up computers, the least they could do is tell you that when hyping it up so now i need to get a new imac to use the airplay feature so lame
 
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this a hardware limitation? I have airplay working on my HTPC through XBMC. It most certainly isn't sporting a current generation quad core processor...
 
lordofthereef said:
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this a hardware limitation? I have airplay working on my HTPC through XBMC. It most certainly isn't sporting a current generation quad core processor...
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On the Intel-side only Sandy Bridge IGPs (or newer) can encode H.264 streams in realtime. XBMC uses probably another hardware accelerated video encoder. Many ARM-based processors have a realtime H.264 encoder.
 
Mr. Retrofire said:
On the Intel-side only Sandy Bridge IGPs (or newer) can encode H.264 streams in realtime. XBMC uses probably another hardware accelerated video encoder. Many ARM-based processors have a realtime H.264 encoder.
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AHA! That's the ticket. Thanks for clearing that up for me. :)

In theory, would upgrading to a Sandy Bridge + processor do the ticket?
 
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