http://tidbits.com/ A technology that started out as the audio-only AirTunes in 2004 and transmogrified into AirPlay in 2010 has now been enhanced in Mountain Lion to enable us to mirror our Mac screens to AirPlay-savvy devices like the Apple TV. Read on to find out what else you can do with it, and to learn how to recover the commands formerly on the Display menu bar menu. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16486 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:33:02 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16486 http://tidbits.com/article/12833]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16484 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:05:18 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16484 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16293 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:52:07 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16293 I have long used Airplay and before that Airfoil for music from Macs to my stereo.
I was in an Apple store recently and two geeks were in front of me. I asked one if I could play my eyeTV recordings from iTunes on my mid 2009 27 inch iMac (refurb) to my AppleTV 2 hooked up to my HDTV. The first geek said no way! Then the slightly older geek next to him said, sure! He was right and my iMac runs latest Snow Leopard!
I regularly record shows with eyeTV, it converts to iTunes, which I then watch on my Apple TV. The couch is nice…]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16257 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:11:47 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16257 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16256 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:44:48 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16256
One explanation is it could have to do with using lower level hardware access to "paint" the video content into the window, that sort of thing would happen with QuickTime files on external displays. Another explanation is Apple is intentionally not displaying the video as part of some attempt to prevent the content from being copied. I'm leaning towards the latter.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16254 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:16:46 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16254
If Apple has posted a support article, I couldn't locate it.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16253 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:06:52 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16253
The higher ed community sent a petition to Apple to raise awareness of these issues (see http://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking-admin-group). Amazingly, Apple has actually begun public work on this issue (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lynn-mdnsext-requirements-00), so there's hope on the horizon!]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16252 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:58:07 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16252 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16250 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:33:37 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16250
One combination does not work, however: When I play DVDs with Apple's DVD Player I see the DVD content on my MacBook Pro, but as soon as I switch on AirPlay the screen on both the MacBook Pro and the TV show a checkerboard pattern. According to Apple's discussion forums, I am not the only one having this problem.

I can show DVD's on my TV only using the VLC media player or connecting the MacBook Pro and the TV via a HDMI cable.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13345?rss#comments_16247 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:11:59 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13345#comments_16247 http://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2012/06/06/7073-users-can-be-wrong/ ) - especially considering that they (Apple) have put nothing in its place. We should be able to stream from any device/computer to any other!]]>