Comments on: How to Use AirPlay Mirroring on a Mac with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

By: How to Connect a Mac to a TV

How to Connect a Mac to a TV — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:51:08 +0000

[...] If you happen to have an Apple TV and a Mac running 10.8 or later, you can just use AirPlay Mirroring and do this entire thing wirelessly without the need for any cables or HDMI adapters. Typically [...]

By: Get AirPlay Mirroring on Older Macs with AirParrot

Get AirPlay Mirroring on Older Macs with AirParrot — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:11:59 +0000

[...] AirPlay Mirroring arrived on the Mac with OS X Mountain Lion, but Macs built before 2011 don’t support the feature, and obviously any OS X version prior to 10.8 won’t have it either. That is, until you run AirParrot, which enables AirPlay Mirroring on any Mac (or Windows PC) running OS X 10.6.8 or later. [...]

By: Krainox

Krainox — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 03:49:25 +0000

Its possible stream the Imac to HDTV and turn off the PC’s monitor?, I can duplicate the screen but I’d wish see the video only in the HDTV screen…

By: deathbyedvin

deathbyedvin — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:19:33 +0000

Just to be clear here. Did you actually have airplay mirroring during the 2nd developer preview on your 2007 iMac?
If so, do you still have it now when ML is out? Everywhere I turn it seems as if nothing pre-2011 can run it.

By: banger

banger — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 05:02:48 +0000

Late 2011 MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion. Sony TV…. Apple TV ver 5.0.2

Everything works fine otherwise in terms of streaming music etc…. but I cannot get mirroring to work.

I see the blue icon with triangle, but the TV simply screen goes black and nothing happens….

Have been trying for about 6 hours to make it work including research – starting from scratch with my NB5Plus4/W (netcomm) router and trying different settings…..

For an apple product this is one gigantic pain in the butt…. Reading about so many people angry with Apple. Get ready for a revolt you people. It may not be for a couple of years but I reckon with the death of SJ and Apple reaching the end of the ‘product life cycle’….. the only way is down and this sure looks like the start of it….

By: Stream All Mac System Audio Over AirPlay in OS X Mountain Lion

Stream All Mac System Audio Over AirPlay in OS X Mountain Lion — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:07:42 +0000

[...] audio directly over AirPlay without any third party apps or tweaks. The best part is that unlike AirPlay mirroring, the system audio stream should work on any Mac that can run Mountain Lion, not just 2011 model [...]

By: Kjell

Kjell — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:33:55 +0000

I did just the same….Bad work apple!!!late 2010 mac pro, and the airplay does not work..

By: Hamish

Hamish — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:40:35 +0000

Air Parrot is the answer, I have a late 2008 macbook aluminium and hey presto fantastic result.

By: macuser

macuser — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:38:38 +0000

try http://airparrot.com/ for desktop mirroring. Did not test it myself yet but looks promising

By: Neil Rennie

Neil Rennie — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:24:52 +0000

Kayla,
Perhaps Matt’s reply will work, but I have an airplay button on my 2012 MBP in the top right of the menu bar. right click it and it shows you that you have selected the ATV, but also allows you to size it like the MBP or the TV. It works great for me.
Neil

By: matt

matt — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:22:54 +0000

hey kayla, i had a similar issue with mine, go to the display preferences tab in the airplay menu and uncheck the overscan correction box. this sorted it for me straight away. hope this helps

By: patrik

patrik — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:24:47 +0000

Upgraded only for the airplay mirroring and then it does not work because I got a mid 2010 I hope someone can find a solution to do airplay mirroring anyway!

By: ashkan

ashkan — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:51:19 +0000

hi,mine works for the desktop,but I dont have any sound on my apple tv.sound in on mac

By: Ismail

Ismail — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:18:51 +0000

You’re right about that! The main reason I downloaded ML was to use airplay mirroring, guess I should’ve done my homework better!! I wanted to use airplay specifically for watching movies, and here’s one thing I can do instead of airplay mirroring (for anyone interested in doing the same), since I have an HDMI cable I can use that cable to mirror the screen onto the TV, and use the apple TV to stream the sound, if you go to >settings>sounds>output u can choose the sound to come out of the TV through the apple TV. I guess this can be a remedy for the time being before someone hacks a solution like they did with Siri on older iphones and ipods!

By: Kayla

Kayla — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:55:52 +0000

Does anyone know how to make it so the air play fits on my entire screen. Its shoving my entire screen to the right of my TV and I cant see everything.