HT201343 AirPlay Mirroring Secondary Display Content

Can airplay mirror the contents of a secondary display on your mac or will it always be the primary display's content?

AirPlay Mirroring only streams your principal display

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    When airplay mirroring to a projector using Apple TV 2 and an HDMI to VGA adaptor I wide black margin all around the displayed screen.
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    Hi Andrew.
    I'm afraid that's expected behavior when using VGA.
    An iPad has a screen ratio of 4:3, a standard WS TV has a screen ratio of 16:9 so it's never going to fit exactly since the TV screen is wider than the iPads and consequently black bars are needed at each side of the iPad screen image to fill the TV screen.
    If you then project the 16:9 output to a VGA display (which has a screen ratio of 4:3, again the 16:9 image won't fit and will require black bars top and bottom to fill the TV display.
    The Apple TV does offer 4:3 resolutions in it's output options but they may not show up if the projector isn't telling the Apple TV it supports them, which might be the case with VGA since it doesn't support bi-directional communication.
    Check the Apple TV output resolution settings to see what resolutions you are offered. Alternatively check the manual for your projector, there may be some sort of zoom feature that will help you.

  • HT201343 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 ?

    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/

  • HT201343 Airplay mirroring whilst using minidisplay port

    Hi,
    I was hoping someone could offer advice as I'm struggling to find the answer.
    If I use airplay mirroring on a 2012 macbook air whilst a second external display is also connected through a minidisplay port adapter would the airplay mirroring of the macbook air display and extended desktop though minidisplay port still function correctly? 
    Any assistance would be much appreciated!
    Thanks
    Tim

    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/

  • HT201343 Airplay mirroring

    My macbook pro 13 inch early 2011 don't have an airplay mirroring.  What should I do?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5404
    if you don't run Mountain Lion you don't have mirror and
    if your mac is not listed as supported you don't have airplay mirror

  • HT201343 AirPlay Mirroring. The ATV3 screen goes black.

    When my mid MBP 2011 connects via AirPlay Mirroring. Mountain Lion.  The screen goes black. It has worked before. Now it doesn't.  I checked firewall, graphics switching and rebooting all devices.
    Streaming via iTunes works fine. ATV3 can access my MBP's library.
    thanks!

    Problem solved... sorta!
    It appears that Parallels 7 is not compatible with Airplay Desktop Mirroring in ML
    If you remove this file com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist
    inside
    /Library/LaunchDaemons
    then reboot.
    ATV3 now works again with Airplay Mirroring.
    However, it breaks Parallels.  And you simply cannot put the com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist file back inside /Library/Daemons.  You need to re-install Parrallels. Could be a permissions thing, but I tried to repaire and follow Parallels instructions on how to start and stop the service.
    I Hope this helps save someone some time...

  • HT201343 airplay mirroring doesn't work anymore in my Macbook Pro retina display!!

    It doesn't work since 3 weeks ago

    Did you manage to get it working again?
    I have the same problem (also MBP Retina) and i could solve it by installing 10.8 again, but after some weeks ist fails again.

  • HT201343 AirPlay Mirroring Not supported - After downloading OS X Mountain Lion I found out that AirPlay is only Supported for Mid 2011 or newer iMacs - Is there a workaround

    I got a new Apple TV for Christmas, I read tha the OS X Mountain Lion supported AirPlay with the Apple TV, so I paid for the OS upgrade.  After the upgrade I found out that AirPlay is not supported on iMac's older than mid 2011.   This ***** because this was the only reasion I needed the upgrade,   It should have been more clearly posted that the features of the new OS were only supported on specific machines!
    Short of buying a new iMac is there a way to use Airport Mirroring from my iMac to the TV ?
    What other Mountain Lion features don't work on a late 2009 iMac ?

    First, if you would have visted http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ you would have seen there is a VERY LARGE and IN BOLD section that covers what functions of 10.8 are limited to what macs.  Second "needed the upgrade"... spare me.
    To your, "work around" question a lot of people report a third party app named "air parrot" as pretty reliable.  You're welcome to try your luck with that.

  • HT201343 airplay mirror only 1 desktop and work on the other

    I want to only mirror one desktop to watch a show and switch back to my other desktop to do work.  Is this possible with airplay?  If not, is there another option/software that does this (like airparrot or another tool)?
    Thanks!
    -jp

    What program are you using to watch a show? If it's iTunes, can't you use normal AirPlay (not mirroring)?

  • HT201343 Airplay mirroring with my mac pro

    i just moved in to a new house with someone who owns apple tv and it immediately synced with my laptop. It says that airplay is off but every time she changes the channel or touches the converter it turns my itunes music on. how do i turn it off?

    Hi,
    It's a Mac Pro but here are the exact details:
    Model Name:          MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier:          MacBookPro8,2
      Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
      Processor Speed:          2 GHz
      Number of Processors:          1
      Total Number of Cores:          4
      L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
      L3 Cache:          6 MB
      Memory:          4 GB
      Boot ROM Version:          MBP81.0047.B27
      SMC Version (system):          1.69f4
      Serial Number (system):          C02G5BJHDRJC
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  • HT201343 AirPlay Mirroring problems

    Why airplay mirrowing does not work on an i7 processor iMac 11,1 with osx 10.8. It was to be a feature on 10.8.

    Forgot the link that explains!
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3761

  • HT201343 Airplay mirroring switched off, and still connecting. (OSX MLion,  MB-Air 13")

    I tested the mirroring, it was very glitchy, but thats not my concern. My problem was switching mirroring OFF, and it reconnecting on its own while roomates watched TV. They watched me write emails, open iTunes, and then sent me images of me writing the email. Funny, but not.

    Thank you so much wchp, this is brilliant. I have had this annoying problem for a long time. I eventually rang Mac support, they did not know how to fix the problem as you have suggested so they instigated many hardware replacements which eventually left my iMac severely crippled. They eventually replaced it with the latest model. But I spent two months working with a disabled computer which really interfere with my work.
    Your solution appears to have solved my problem, at least so far, but I am hopeful that it is a permanent fix. I hope that your suggestions are taken up by Apple support. This may solve many users problems and avoid Apple making expensive fixes that don't actually work.
    I thought that the new iMac would not have the 'Wake up from sleep by painting in the login window' problem but it did, this really annoyed me. Anyway now the problem appears to be solved, it's not I will repost and keep working on it. Thanks again.

  • HT201343 Airplay Mirroring from my Mac to Apple TV.

    My Mac is not finding the Apple TV device even though they are on the same wireless network. What can I do?

    troubleshoot by trying to connect them by ethernet cables to the router to rule out the wifi being the problem

  • Airplay to mirror secondary monitor

    Hello,
    I have a Mac mini (2011) with two monitors.  Airplay seems to always mirror the primary monitor. Is there a way to mirror the secondary monitor?
    Your help is very much appreciated.

    I have NOT tried this myself...
    http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69554/how-to-mirror-secondary-display-t o-a-tv
    Tell me if this helps :-)
    Jb

  • HT204291 Problem with Airplay or AirPlay Mirroring

    I am not able to use AirPlay or AirPlay Mirroring to stream content like Hulu (not Hulu plus) to my Apple TV from my PC.  I disabled the firewall and that did not help.

    How are you trying to do this?  It would require mirroring and you seem to have a PC not mac.  If that is the case you need a third party app called airparrot www.airparrot.com which should give you the ability to 'mirror'.  It has mixed reviews but I found it fine until I got mirroring.
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