Does airplay work with DVD player on Mac?
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elecktrobox wrote:
that's the only thing keeping me from buying an apple tv. I still have way too many dvds...
...other than lack of Hulu...
Nyrius NAVS500 HD 1080p has a 30 foot range, and if you have an HDMI capable Mac, or audio to HDMI adapter that combines video, you can send any Mac within 30 feet to the TV, and play DVDs that way wirelessly. It took a bit of setting up. At one point the DVD Player said it wouldn't recognize the graphics chip on my Mac Mini 2010, but I finally got it to work.
The video format on a DVD is MPEG2 which is not one of the formats that an Apple TV plays.
MPEG-2 does playback on AppleTV but only if H.264 is encoded on it. DVDs though because of the movie industry is prevented from being encoded legally with another format. Thus we can't discuss how to do so here.
The answer to that now is yes. Mountain Lion (the next release after regular Lion) OS X is going to have that feature. See the release notes from Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html
It is definitely about time! I love my Apple TV and this is the main reason I bought it in the first place (and severely disappointed myself). Get ready to ditch those DVD players, folks!
I'll believe it when I see it actually work. Let's hope this isn't one of those features they suggest they might have, only to drop later. And we still don't know the hardware requirements of Mountain Lion.
Even if Airplay arrives on OS X, there's no guarantee you'll be able to stream DVDs.
The Hardware requirement aren't set yet but it look like anything older 2008 going to get left out 😟. Fairly typical of Apple MO
We can't rumor. If it isn't stated, it is rumor.
Does airplay work with DVD player on Mac?