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vmohankumar
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Q: Airplay Mirroring in Mac OS

Hi All,

 

Am wondering why am not able to do a Airplay using My Macbook Pro 2010. Support team says its a hardware compatibility issue, however am able to use Google Chromecast from chrome browser for mirroring. Whats Apple Is doing ?

Apple TV (3rd generation), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 6, 2014 8:03 PM

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  • by Rudegar,Helpful

    Rudegar Rudegar May 7, 2014 7:30 AM in response to vmohankumar
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    May 7, 2014 7:30 AM in response to vmohankumar

    for performance issues airplay mirror only works with video cards which support hardware realtime encoding of the display image stream to a H.264 stream

     

    if the video card does not support this feature in realtime the cpu will have to decode it all the time and that take a toll on performance and make it airplay mirror (with possible delay)

     

    the program called airparrot handle it that way and allow you to mirro to the appletv also from older computer even windows computers I think

     

    if you wish to advice apple about such matters you should use the feedback channel

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/

  • by vmohankumar,

    vmohankumar vmohankumar May 7, 2014 8:26 AM in response to Rudegar
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    May 7, 2014 8:26 AM in response to Rudegar

    Thanks Rudegar. Hope apple comes up with an utility like air parrot .

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    Rudegar Rudegar May 7, 2014 8:42 AM in response to vmohankumar
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    May 7, 2014 8:42 AM in response to vmohankumar

    you can request it using the feedback or pay the money for airparrot

     

    think they decided against it so people with rather old macs which did not have the performance would not have a bad experisnce it's seems very apple'ish to cut or not make a feature unless they feel it's really well implementated