HT5517 Airplay (or Home Sharing) MacBook & ATV

Is my 2008 MacBook able to airplay my 2nd gen Apple TV?

Disregard. At least with iTunes 11 and OS X Lion, even my early 2008 MacBook can Airplay through a refurb 2nd gen aTV. These are wondrous times we live in.
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Airplay and home sharing does not work with my 2nd gen apple tv

though my 2nd gen apple tv with version 7 and my iphone 4s with ios 8.0.2 are connected to the same wifi network, airplay and home sharing doesnt show up in my itunes nor in my phone! what should i do?

Hello there, Ashwin.
The following Knowledge Base articles offers up some great steps for troubleshooting issues with both AirPlay and Home Sharing, respectively:
Resolve issues with AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4215
and
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Can I watch a rented movie from Itunes (iMac) on my Apple TV 3 without airplay and home sharing?

I recently download a rented movie from itunes store in my iMac. My question is, if I can watch my rented movie in my apple tv without Airplay or Home sharing? The reason is because I don't want to turn on my iMac every time that I want to watch a movie.
Thanks!

If you rented the movie from Apple TV, then you can't watch it on the iPad. The screenshot below is from Here

AirPlay and Home Sharing are no longer working.

Recently, Airplay and Home Sharing stopped working completely from my iMac. There just seems to be a miscommunication- AirPlay is showing up, my Apple TV and Airport Extreme are selectable, but then they wont connect. I've been trying to fiddle around with netword settings to try to fix it but no luck. Still works from my iPhone just fine.
Maybe someone who's Airplay and Home Sharing are working could tell me what their Advanced Network Settings look like?
Thank you for any help!

Yes I did all the easy stuff first. I even re-installed Mavericks incase a special file was missing. I've totally reset my AirPort Express several times. It's what's transmitting my WiFi and it's super close to my iMac.
It's deffinitely a problem with my iMac seeing as it's not working with both my AirPort Express and Apple TV, also can't access Shared movies on my iPad via Home Sharing so yeah... definitely my iMac. All those other things communicate to eachother just fine.

TS2972 Home Sharing with ATV stopped working after upgrade to iTunes 11

After upgrading to iTunes 11, my two PCs are no longer visible to Apple TV or the iOS Remote App. I went through all the steps in "Troubleshooting Home Sharing" http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972 without success. In additions, I tried:
Turning Home Sharing off, then on again on both PCs
Re-created Firewall rules for iTunes
Ran a factory reset on Apple TV
Disabled iPV6 on the network adapter, based on a blogger's fix for an iTunes 10 problem
Some other observations:
Home Sharing was working with Apple TV an hour before I ran the updates for iTunes 11 and Apple TV.
The Apple TV and iOS Remote App are working together, so the network settings must be correct.
The PCs in question are running Window 8 Pro 64-bit and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
The two PCs can see eachother's iTunes.
It seems likely this is an iTunes 11 issue, but upgrading ATV2 at the same time clouds the diagnostics.
I was just about to order two more Apple TVs, but now have second thoughts now that my ATV2 is just a doorstop.
Any suggestions?

You are not alone with issues related to the e1000e (but all they concluded was that reloading the module makes it work again):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145564
It seems like this is more your issue:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux. … devel/8932
But if none of those boot flags work for you, then there's not much you can do, and you'll have to write a script to reload the module each time after initial boot finishes I guess until the module gets fixed.
Also, power management of the PCIe interface causes the e1000e to shut off after a while as well (lots of people on CentOS noticing this):
http://serverfault.com/questions/226319 … ie-aspm-do
So you can use that boot parameter to stop that from happening, if that becomes an issue for you as well.

No Picture on 'Resume Play' Option When Home Sharing on ATV Gen 3

Everything seems to work fine when you 'Start from Beginning' when home sharing, but as soon as I go to fast forward or 'Resume Play' if I have watched a little bit on my MBP, the screen freezes or is black. There is sound and there will be no skipping of the sound; also, the movie loads fine, but there is no picture unless I restart from the beginning. I can also fast forward on Netflix and Hulu Plus just fine with no picture/sound issues so I know that it isn't my internet connection. I am on Version 5.3 (6105) with a wired connection to my router.

From iTunes Menu Advanced select -> Turn Off Homesharing
Repeat that an every computer
The Turn On Homesharing again - Use the same ID/PW that you use / have used for purchasing songs on every computer

HT4557 My MacBook Pro and iPad will not pick up the Air Play or the Home sharing on my AppleTV which was working yesterday

I was previously able to use my AppleTV with airplay and iTunes home sharing to my 2 macbook pros and my iPad. However, it has suddenly stopped connecting to both airplay and home sharing, even though both are turned on and the correct itunes account has been logged into on all devices. We have reset AppleTV but that has not resolved the issue. There is no airplay icon on any of the macbooks or iPad. Has anyone else experienced this and found any solutions? Thanks.

It has always been set up as WiFi and until this weekend it worked well - now won't connect.

Airplay vs. Home Sharing, is there a technical difference???

I'm attempting to become an audiophile, or at least I can say I really enjoy listening to music. As such, all of my CD's are ripped via Apple lossless into iTunes, and then streamed to my ATV2 before the optical out sends the digital signal to my stereo.
The ATV2 offers me (at least) two methods of listening to my music:
1) Using homesharing - my ATV2 picks up the music when I select "Computers" and choose my homeshared iTunes library, or
2) Using Airtunes - directly from my iMac and select my ATV2 as the destination source.
Interestingly enough, I hear a real difference between the two methods, as method #2 will create a significant distortion in many songs, but method #1 will not, regardless the music format (lossless, 128kbps, 256kbps, etc).
Why would this be? Is there a technical difference between method #1 and #2 above between what iTunes sends and ATV2 receives/decodes?
Help, inquiring minds want to know!
Thanks.

mightyprops wrote:
I'm attempting to become an audiophile, or at least I can say I really enjoy listening to music. As such, all of my CD's are ripped via Apple lossless into iTunes, and then streamed to my ATV2 before the optical out sends the digital signal to my stereo.
The ATV2 offers me (at least) two methods of listening to my music:
1) Using homesharing - my ATV2 picks up the music when I select "Computers" and choose my homeshared iTunes library, or
2) Using Airtunes - directly from my iMac and select my ATV2 as the destination source.
Interestingly enough, I hear a real difference between the two methods, as method #2 will create a significant distortion in many songs, but method #1 will not, regardless the music format (lossless, 128kbps, 256kbps, etc).
Why would this be? Is there a technical difference between method #1 and #2 above between what iTunes sends and ATV2 receives/decodes?
Help, inquiring minds want to know!
Thanks.
If you lower the playback volume control in iTunes on your iMac when it is sending music via AirTunes to your ATV, can you eliminate the distortion?
It may be that the too-high output volume from the iMac is causing "clipping" somewhere in the signal delivery chain because there is too little "headroom" for the digital audio's loudest passages to be rendered properly.
If so, turning down the volume control in iTunes might fix it.
Technically, if you stream the music using Home Sharing, the ATV is receiving and internally decoding the original audio file. Using AirPlay, the file is decoded by iTunes on your iMac, not on the ATV, and a digital audio output signal is generated in iTunes and sent to the ATV. If not enough headroom is present when that happens, the output signal may be clipped in loud passages. This may happen either at the point of being generated by iTunes or at some later point in the signal path.
You may want to try using iVolume
http://www.mani.de/ivolume/
to make sure all your music files play at the same desirable level. This is achieved in part by turning on Sound Check in iTunes (and also on the ATV) after using iVolume on all your music tracks. Before you use iVolume to adjust the volume of your music tracks, you might want to set iVolume's Master Volume level fairly low, so as to give you undistorted AirTunes play even with the iTunes volume slider set to its maximum position.

Home Sharing Loading Forever and Windows 8

So I thought I'd leave this here since I scoured this site via Google for answers and couldn't find anything that helped.
I could not get iTunes Home Sharing to work on my Windows 8 PC (64-bit) in the last few months. My AppleTV would just sit there and attempt to load the video file forever, making very little progress (if any). I knew the movies played previously and if I loaded them on my wife's MacBook Pro, they'd play fine over AirPlay (something my Windows 8 PC couldn't do either). The AppleTV could see my Home Share (via the Computers app) and my iTunes could see my AppleTV (the airplay icon was visible). My AppleTV could also stream just fine from Netflix, the iTunes Store, and it could do mirroring from iPhones and a MacBook just fine as well. I tried turning Home Sharing on and off. I did both kinds of resets (settings and factory). I unplugged it form the wall. Still no luck. From all this, I could tell my AppleTV was not the issue.
I disabled Windows Firewall (after attempting to clear every possible port iTunes might use through the rules). I added every process to Windows Defender. I disabled IPv6 via Network Settings and the Registry. I made sure Bonjour was enabled (after disabling it and re-enabling it). I checked that iTunes was completely updated (along with the AppleTV). I had every update for Windows 8 installed. I tried older versions of iTunes without luck. I tried turning on and off Home Sharing. I changed the name of my computer. I changed the name of my iTunes library.
I went back to every hardware change I'd made recently. I tried my older wifi usb dongle. No luck. I zeroed in on my new ASUS RT-AC56U router as a possible culprit. I updated its firmware. I changed the network names. I disabled any QoS it may have had running along with any firewalls or protections. I even tried a custom Merlin firmware that others here had suggested made everything work again. I tried running on 2.4 GHz and then 5 GHz, then with one disabled and then the other. I eventually got a family member to let me borrow an Apple Airport Extreme to test with and I still couldn't get any Home Sharing streaming to work. At that point, I had pretty much ruled out any networking hardware as the cause.
So that left something still causing hangups on my Windows 8 PC. It really left me with no other choice aside from attempting a clean install of Windows. All my music, iTunes movies, and iTunes TV shows were on separate hard drives so I bit the bullet and wiped my system drive clean. However, it still wasn't working upon re-installing Windows 8 and the newest version of iTunes.
The only thing I could figure at this point was that I had upgraded to Windows 8 (from 7) sometime last fall. So maybe Windows 8 itself was the culprit? I knew that Home Sharing was working when I first installed Windows 8. I can't recall exactly when nothing would play but I definitely know that I was able to do Home Sharing streaming initially. But it did get progressively worse since then. Movies would play for half their length and then stop to load. Eventually, nothing would load. But when I tried previous versions of iTunes, I still couldn't get Home Sharing to work. So something deep in Windows 8 had changed that iTunes hasn't adjusted for yet and was preventing Home Sharing from working.
So I did the last thing available to me: I dug out an old copy of Windows 7 and did a wipe and clean install. Lo and behold: Home Sharing is working right off the bat. Very short load times, I could skip ahead, Airplay and Home Sharing working as intended. I went back and re-added everything piece by piece to make sure none of them were going to set me back with video playback.
-Switched out the Airport Extreme for my own router (after setting it up like new...again). My test videos still played! Check.
-Went back to my newer USB wifi dongle. Check.
-Added more non-HD videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Added 720p HD videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Added 1080p videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Windows Firewall is currently active but I'm still Home Sharing just fine.
I'm back up and running on Windows 7 and Home Sharing is working just like I remembered it. I know this isn't much solace to anyone encountering this and trying every fix imaginable from Google. I know I didn't want to flatten and re-install my OS (in fact, downgrading it) to get it working. But something with how recent iTunes or Windows updates are interacting were just completely ruining my home watching experience. It's just so bizarre that it worked in Windows 8 at first but then progressively got worse. And a fresh install of Windows 8 and iTunes didn't set it back to the way it was. It has to be some recent changes between the two that interfered with the process and that neither company has addressed it yet.
I know this will probably get buried among the thousands of other help threads but I hope it does manage to assist someone in getting a better handle on this problem should they face it. And maybe someone from Apple will take another look at Home Sharing in iTunes for Windows 8.

In case anyone is interested, last night I installed Paralells, Windows, Overdrive Media Console on Windows, and then was able to download my book in WMA format. I was hoping parallels would allow me to crossover sync to iTunes on the Mac and have Overdrive recognize that I had iTunes open, but I had to choose Windows or Mac when connecting my phone through the USB and had to choose Windows in order for it to successfully transfer. I was able to get it to work it is now synced to iTunes in Windows. The nice thing was that it pulled in all my music/apps that I had set up in the Mac side, so I didn't have to go through that exercise again. I tested it on my old phone. Now I need to decide if I want to set up my current phone on Windows or Mac, it seems that once synched it only opens the device in windows, I haven't figured out how to force the choice between mac or window again. If I do windows, I can't take advantage of the cloud or iphoto/imovie directly. I'm totally new to mac, but I think I'll have to import my photos manually.

Resolving Apple TV 2 & 3 Home Sharing Issues

I see that there are many users reporting problems with home sharing.
Unfortunately the problems are there to stay home sharing is actually not functional in full in certain scenarios so I thought I would give a summary of my experience
First of all airplay and home sharing have nothing to do with each other so the fact you have issues with airplay or that airplay works does not warrant any behaviour for home sharing
My set up is as follows
Apple TV 3
iMac
Set of iOS devices iPhone 5/5s/6 iPad 3/Air
Netgear NightHawk 7000
I have the largest iTunes library on the iMac running the latest Mavericks OSX.
In general everything works fine when all devices are awake however the moment the iMac or AppleTV goes to sleep this start creating problems
For who does not know the Apple TV 2/3 has a functionality called bonjour sleep proxy, the AppleTV is always visible on the network and retains and IP address even when it is in sleep mode. The other devices like iMac or MacBooks instead may disconnect from the network and loose their IP going to sleep. So before going to sleep the register with the AppleTV so that the apple Tv can wake those up if needed.
This is the theory so if you then launch remote app or go onto the AppleTV menu and look for computers you should see the shared libraries.
But you don't!
In the remote app the library disappears and when you go into the AppleTVand press computer it starts loading it and then fails or even better tells you home sharing is not active on other devices
Solution:
There are two solution to the problem
1, Set the iMac or other computer power saving to never go to sleep. This is not eco friendly but means the network card stays on and so does the link to home sharing
2. Uss standard power saving settings and use an application like Moka WOL. Register your computer MAC address on this app. When you need your home library go into this app and wake up the sleeping computer. The link to computers will go back to working on the apple TV and all will be normal
I am sorry to say that home sharing just does not work because contrary to what apple says the apple tv (and the extreme routers) fail to wake up any sleeping devices with home sharing on the network although they are aware of the existence once those devices loose an IP address is basically dead end

Thanks to the mod to removing my post but here we go again
This is the initial situation with an Apple TV and home library is my iMac running Mavericks
After sending the mac to sleep all devices disappear from remote
If I go to the apple tv and click computers I get the message that home sharing is off...!
the apple tv shows on the router map with an IP address whilst the iMac has disappeared
Despite the iMac console reports that clients are requesting wake the iMac does not wake
Oct 12 10:34:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: Clients requested wake events: [proc=mDNSResponder request=Maintenance inDelta=7198]
Oct 12 10:34:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PM scheduled RTC wake event: MaintenanceImmediate inDelta=7198.04
At this point i use moka wake on lan to wake up the sleeping iMac that reappears on the network
The console output is correctly reporting the wake and recreating the iTunes server
Oct 12 10:39:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PID 28(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "Network wake delay proxy assertion" 00:00:00 id:0xe00002341 [System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp]
Oct 12 10:39:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: DarkWake [CDN] due to ARPT/Network: Using AC
Oct 12 10:39:30 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PID 28(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.acwakelinger" 00:00:00 id:0xe00002342 [System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp]
Oct 12 10:39:40 iMac.local powerd[28] <Notice>: PID 196(iTunes) Created NetworkClientActive "com.apple.iTunes.server" 00:00:00 id:0x1200002350 [System: DeclUser BGTask SRPrevSleep NetAcc kCPU kDisp]
At this point the screen of the Apple TV shows the items from home sharing in the thumbnails
And browsing of home library is established
In short wake on demand with bonjour proxy fails somewhere. The wake on demand is successful when using magic packets
I wonder why apple devices running iOS (apple tv and iphones/ipad) don't use magic packets instead of this weird real time clock trigger event that seems not to work

Home sharing and air play not working with 11.1.1.11

I upgraded to recent i Tunes and now I cannot access Airplay or Home Sharing
help

Hi there neztrop,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the articles below helpful.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
iTunes: Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5209
-Griff W.

10.3 to 10.3 Home Sharing broke?

Rhetorical question, but interested if anyone can validate my results
All Computers have Quicktime 7.6.9
All computers are on the same subnet. (Mac Pro 100bastT; iMac, Macbook and AppleTV 2 on same wireless SSID)
Home Sharing worked flawlessly prior to 10.3.1.
I have a Mac Pro that was upgraded to iTunes 10.3.1 (Not sure if I did the 10.3 first) that hosts my library.
My iMac has iTunes 10.2.2 will play video and audio shared via Home Sharing
Apple TV Will play video and audio shared via Home Sharing
Macbook plays audio and displays a filmstrip like it's missing a codec.
I can share the drive and play the content in Quicktime on the Macbook fine.
I also checked sharing from the Macbook with the same results: AppleTV 2 O.K. Mac Pro plays audio and shows Filmstrip.
Hunting franticly for a way to downgrade iTunes on my Macbook! Any suggestions?

I'm seeing pretty much the same thing, though I can't confirm it's specific to 10.3.1 -- all my PCs have been upgraded already. I'm pretty sure this all worked a few weeks ago, however, and your post makes me suspect it's the iTunes upgrade that broke things.
However, I don't get a filmstrip and audio -- I don't get anything at all other than iTunes displaying the title, total run-time, and some meta-data.
None of my ripped videos or home movies will play PC-to-PC via iTunes Home Sharing. They play fine on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch via home sharing.
Here's another post that seems similar: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15406969#15406969. In that post, the author mentioned their purchased videos play, but not their ripped ones. I've confirmed that's the case for me, as well. I can play a TV show and some music videos that were purchase from the iTunes store. Do you have any purchased video you can try?
Note that all my PCs are running Windows (XP and 7). So if it's a problem with iTunes 10.3.1, it's not platform-specific.

How do I transfer my TV shows purchashed on my ATV 2 to iTunes so I can share with other iOS devices? I have home sharing "on" and using the same account. iTunes see the ATV2 on airplay. I have a ATV (FIRST GEN) connected to my itunes account as well.

So I can share with my other iOS devices?
ATV 2 and iTunes software current.
iTunes is on a iMac ( 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3) OS X Lion 10.7.2 (11C74)
home sharing on
iMatch on
using same iTunes account
I have a ATV first gen and it works fine
Airplay works so iTunes is seeing the ATV2
help help....

Conflict between home sharing from MacBook Pro and airplay from ipad / iPhone?

Just bought an Apple TV, and set it up yesterday. Everything works fine, with one exception. When I have iTunes open and home sharing turned on the Apple TV, when trying to mirror airplay from my ipad 4th gen or my iPhone 5s, I get nothing on the Apple TV, just black screen. It also makes the device run really sluggish.
I've definitely narrowed it down to this conflict, quitting iTunes on the MacBook Pro immediately resolves the issue. So no big deal, right? Just turn off itunes. Except the whole point of buying the Apple TV is to have a central point I can stream all my media in the house from, I'd like to have my MacBook Pro, iMac, ipad and iPhone able to take control of the Apple TV without having to run across the house to turn iTunes on or off on the computers.
This only happens when mirroring, normal airplay audio or video works just fine. MacBook Pro and Apple TV are hard wired Ethernet, ipad on wifi.
Is this a known conflict? Is there any solution?

Normally there ought to be an airplay button in the top menu bar (where also the battery, wifi, clock, etc are located). And in display settings at the bottom there ought to be a drop down menu labelled Airplay Display.
If not, it seems that your Apple TV cannot be found. Are both on the same network? Have you enabled AirPlay in the Apple TV (Settings -> AirPlay set to On)?

ATV not reading Home Shared iTunes when MacBook clamshell is closed

Perhaps it's not possible, but the guy at the Apple Store seemed to think it was.
I run OS X 10.6.6, iTunes 10.2.1, and have an Apple TV 2nd generation. My iTunes Library is on a Wi-Fi network drive (via Airport). Home Sharing was set up with no problem.
My MacBook's energy settings are set thusly: Computer sleep: Never; Wake for Ethernet network access: checked.
However, when I close the cover on my MacBook, my iTunes Library disappears on my Apple TV.
I can handle leaving the laptop open while listening to music and such. But if I could close it, I'd rather.

I use a MacBook Pro at work, hooked up to an Apple Cinema display. Not sure of its settings, but I can close the MBP and use the external mouse and/or keyboard to wake the computer up. Figured something like that should work here. And, like I said, the Apple Store guy seemed to think it would if, his words, I was running Snow Leopard.

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