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AirPlay to Apple TV only sound and no picture to airplay option

Airplay is not working right for me or there is a setting I'm missing.

When I start a movie on my iPad or iPhone and I click the airplay icon it lets me choose between the device itself and the apple tv, however it only is for sound, no video.... Why? This is the same on the iPad and iPhone.

When I click on a picture I don't even get a airplay option at all. This is the same on both devices.

I don't see any setting for this either.

Help

 MacBook Pro;  MacPro; TV;  iPhone 4;  iPod, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 11:36 AM

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All Day Breakfast

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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 12:01 PM

just to add to my post above, I am selecting the AirPlay icon on iPhone/iPad. I am clicking on AppleTV. Then I have to go to the AppleTV at the top of the menu and scroll up to the iTunes icons and I get (on the left) a generic icon which says untitled/unknown and when I click on that I get the sound without video. Something is wrong somewhere, must be me because this is way too awful for Apple to have released. Double checked that AirPlay is on on AppleTV. All are joined to my home network....

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Philly22

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Dec 15, 2010 8:05 AM in response to Michael Seelye

Hi Guys: Just bought the Apple TV. All updates are completed and have an HDMI
hookup. Have sound from Ipad, but no video. Also under computers, my music library comes and goes. I have to keep reinstating the home sharing to get it back. When I use the computer, it disappears. Not worried about this at the moment, but no video from Ipad is driving my crazy. Saw the post about the reset on router. Please explain if this is the problem and how to fix. Going
crazy in Florida, besides freezing.

daiquest

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Dec 29, 2010 3:39 PM in response to Michael Seelye

Does anyone know if i can use air Play From my apple tv (second gen) to my ipad for sound only.
(I have the newest ios for ipad and the new version for apple tv.)
I know i can use the tv speakers. But i want to do just the opposite. i want to play my netflix on my apple tv and "wifi stream in any way" the sound to the ipad or iphone so that i dont disturb others with the sound. But i get the benefits of the big screen.

Oh yeah i dont want to buy the airport express. I already have plenty of wireless routers.

CAn someone please help

Jan 23, 2011 7:50 AM in response to Goody64

Hi there - were you ever able to resolve playing NY Times videos from iPad to Apple TV? I'm having the same issue.

Mar 20, 2011 5:40 PM in response to EvanMather

With the latest version of iOS software for the Apple TV, iPhone and iPad:
- Apple apps will do both audio and video
- third party apps will only do audio until they are updated to take advantage of the latest iOS software...that's if the app developer want to let you do it!

Mar 24, 2011 12:03 PM in response to Grant Klassen

wsj just updated its app and still only play sound to Apple TV via Airplay

anyone knows if there's a NON-Apple App that support Airplay (video & sound)?

TIA

mlg74

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Mar 24, 2011 10:04 PM in response to Michael Seelye

The fandango app now supports AirPlay.

sanfoor

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Mar 31, 2011 9:52 AM in response to playcentric

air video works great on airplay
aljazeera, CityTV worked for a moment then stopped,
Other apps never worked, only sound was streaming
it seemed almost random...

I wanted to add that "air video" app streamed all kind of videos, from MKVs to DIVx from my PC, and also it's a background app in IOS, so i was airplaying my MKV while doing other stuff on my IPhone/Ipad! great app

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Mar 31, 2011 6:13 PM in response to sanfoor

I have the latest update 4.2.1 and only audio is workIng with AirPlay on ANY application. Is anyone else experiencing this???

Apr 11, 2011 8:22 PM in response to the-oz-man

x-webkit-airplay="allow"

If the developer of any website adds this code to their HTML5 video tag, the user will be able to send video to the AppleTV via AirPlay. Without that, you will need a hack in order to enable the AirPlay, by default it is not enabled in the standard HTML 5 video tag.

Hope this helps. I added to my tag and now I have my own mini-Netflix. Awesome!

Jun 19, 2011 6:36 AM in response to the-oz-man

I have the exact same issue. I shall update all software again and see if this fixes things but it is quite frustrating. I also can't connect to my iMac now, which previously wasn't as issue. Not sure if the problems started when I got iPad2 or that's just coincidence.

Jul 25, 2011 9:57 AM in response to Michael Seelye

this is a bug need to fix by apple. i have the exact same issue with airplay. it stop working sometime

b10lm

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Oct 25, 2011 4:29 PM in response to valle4

Hello there;

I am having the same issues. I've tried every single fix posted and I can't play any rented movie anymore. The interesting thing for me is that it worked when I first bought the Apple TV. This is the only Apple product that is given me the blues... From the raw number of postings it is a problem for quite a few people. They need to fix this!!

Oct 28, 2011 3:39 PM in response to Michael Seelye

i have just got apple tv and cannot get iplayer to run on tv screen only the sound comes through from my ipad 1 also cannot get mirroring to work either any ideas would be welcome ios 5 installed on ipad but itunes wont backup any of my devices have had to restore ipad manually to get ios 5 installed i dont want to risk my iphone 4 in case i loose all info and pictures

Nov 4, 2011 2:29 PM in response to Michael Seelye

My iPhone 3G started acting this way (no video, only sound) when streaming video to my Apple TV2 a few months ago. Updates and reboots have not helped, and I will not update the iPhone to iOS5 becuase it will slow my phone down to an unusable crawl. Apple - please fix this issue ASAP, I can't watch video!

Jan 23, 2012 10:05 AM in response to Retrovibe

I have been reading all the posts and maybe I missed something but I have this problem also. I first noticed the issue with HBOgo and MAXgo. I assumed it was a function turned off by HBO. Disappointed but OK, I understand so forgot about it for a while then.....

I have DirecTV and was hoping to use Apple TV for on Demand TV shows through the websites or Apps. I use my iPad and watch different videos in any of several apps Facebook, TV.COM, NBC, ABC, Google, Safari Initially I assumed video to AppleTV was not supported.

One night when my son was watching netflix through Apple TV, I clicked on TV.COM App on my iPad and the video started playing on the Apple TV instead of Netflix. I though great, I can watch on demand TV shows through this APP. Unfortunately since my iPad is Set to close the screen after 2 minutes of inactivity. the screen went blank. When I started the video back up, I was only getting sound for the show I was watching. I could not get it to play video again no matter what I did Just playing around, I have successfully played videos from all of these apps on the tv with airplay BUT I can not get them to play on a consistent basis. I have tried to rewatch the same videos that worked once and cannot get video.

I have tried changing every setting I thought could possibly affect this but I have not figured out a pattern. Please help this frustrated Apple TV user!

I have updated my iPad and Apple TV to the latest OS.

AirPlay to Apple TV only sound and no picture to airplay option