Airplay with Netflix, Vimeo and You Tube

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Airplay with Netflix, Vimeo and You Tube

Installed and it was very sluggish. Could not get Netflix video running on the iPad to initiate on AppleTV, although audio streamed instantly. A Vimeo video appeared to need to download entirely to AppleTV rather than streaming. And a You Tube standard def video was terribly pixelated on the 43-inch plasma. AppleTV and iPad running on an Apple Airport home gigabit network and admitedly, DSL is a pretty standard 1.5mb/sec. Ideas?
Also, I realize I can initiate Netflix and You Tube just with AppleTV sans Airplay.

MacPro Octo, MatroxOX2 MAX, MacBook Pro C2D 2G, iMac, iPad, iPhone 4 & 3GS, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Final Cut Pro Studio 7.0.2, AG-HVX200

Posted on Nov 23, 2010 6:10 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 23, 2010 12:17 PM in response to David Ahrendts

Well, Airplay's strengths and limitations are becoming clearer today. It was not clear to me that Airplay is limited to video in the iTunes library only. I was hoping to wirelessly stream content from Safari, from Vimeo and even Hulu as well as Netflix, which, of course, can be accessed on Airplay directly. Good summary from the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2010%2F11%2F23%2Fbusiness insider-airplay-video-2010-11.DTL

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Answer 2

Nov 24, 2010 6:42 AM in response to David Ahrendts

Day 2: You Tube streams nicely from the iPad You Tube app to Apple TV. Netflix does not stream video -- just audio -- fro the Netflix app. An H.264 video loaded into the iPad's iTunes streams well, but it's 720p version loaded into the iPad Video app does not -- maybe too dense for Airplay's streaming.

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