Does Airplay only work for certain Apps?

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Does Airplay only work for certain Apps?

I have the New iPad and I have the new Apple TV 1080p version....my new iPad and Apple TV airplay will work together (audio and video) for news (ABC) videos and it will work for UTube, but it will not work with Direct TV, ABC series player, or any other content player that has the throw it up there on the TV icon. On those types of Apps, only the audio works on the TV, not the video. I have read and read and read trying to see if I could fix the problem, but is it a problem that I can fix, or are those items just actually blocked content by Apple somehow and will not ever work with both the video and the audio at the same time on my TV?

Thanks.

Apple TV (3rd generation)

Posted on Aug 2, 2012 4:36 PM

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Aug 2, 2012 4:59 PM in response to Susan WW

Welcome to the Apple community.

There are two types of airplay, basic airplay and mirroring. Basic airplay requires that the content stream is enabled for airplay, this is not always the case. Mirroring does not require the content to be enabled, but some providers are able to block airplay from working.

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Aug 3, 2012 6:51 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks for your response. I guess my only other question then is why do the Apps on the iPad even have the little AirPlay icon, if they don't bother to enable it? Do you see how frustrating that can be for Thousands of people who fool around with it to no avail?

The iPad 3 doesn't have mirroring, is that right?

Thanks.

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Aug 3, 2012 7:51 AM in response to Susan WW

The icon is there by default, it isn't Apple that chooses to enable AirPlay for video or not, it's up to the developer of the app. It wouldn't work if Apple had it set up to disappear if no enabled video content was detected, some apps such as radio station apps don't need video to be useful, removing the AirPlay icon when no enabled video content was detected would stop these apps working.

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