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Can anyone comment if airplay is disabled on pre 2011 macs? I'm going to be royally pissed if airplay is disabled because I'm missing some BS drm chip. Hope
by bstar77 14y ago
Can anyone comment if airplay is disabled on pre 2011 macs? I'm going to be royally pissed if airplay is disabled because I'm missing some BS drm chip. Hopefully the era of "Jailbreaking" macs has not started.
- dylanvee 14y agoAirPlay mirroring relies on Intel Quick Sync Video support in your CPU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
- ken 14y agoGood to know, but it's still a bit disappointing that no Mac Pro can do AirPlay. I wonder if there's a new API coming down the pipe for this. The obvious way to implement AirPlay mirroring, in my mind, would have been to add Quick Sync Video support as an optimization to existing video APIs, and then simply have AirPlay mirroring use that. Then not only could people with lots of free GPU cycles but no Quick Sync Video CPU (alas, like me) use AirPlay mirroring, but other video apps would automatically take advantage of the new performance.
- zdw 14y agoIf anything it may be a CPU/GPU restriction that holds you back. Modern Intel CPU's have a quicksync feature which is H.264 encode assist in the HD 3000 and 4000 GPU. These features may be required to make airplay mirroring work. Similar hardware is in the A5 chip in the iPad 2 and up, and iPhone 4S and up.
- fpgeek 14y agoIs quicksync also behind Intel Wireless Display? Despite needing to by special recievers, I've found it pretty handy.
- st3fan 14y agoDRM Chip? What did that crazy rumour come from?
- Zev 14y agoFor a couple years, Apple shipped Macs with a TPM[1] chip from Intel. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
- jasomill 14y agoIIRC they only used it for the developer preview Intel boxes, though.
- st3fan 14y agoAlso false. They never shipped those and they were also nt Macs. those were developer only machines that you could lease and they were built using standard Intel boards which had that unused TPM module.
- bstar77 14y agoI apologize, I made the mistake of reading cultofmac a bit too literally. http://www.cultofmac.com/177259/why-cant-macs-older-than-2011-use-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion/ http://www.cultofmac.com/177259/why-cant-macs-older-than-201...
- gte910h 14y agoAre you talking about being an Airplay source or destination? AirServer functions as a destination already: http://www.airserverapp.com/ http://www.airserverapp.com/ For a source, Airfoil works for audio: http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ It looks like a hardware limitation if you don't have the ISQV, you're SOL.
- bstar77 14y agoI need it as a source to stream my son's movies. Getting tired of using PS3 media server. I'd much rather organize the library in iTunes.
- mkaltenecker 14y agoQuick Sync is not DRM. It’s a video de-/encoder.
- dave84 14y agoCheck out AirParrot, it's $10. Fullscreen AirPlay audio and video. It works fine on my 2008 Macbook but it gets a little hot and noisy. The lag is noticeable but tolerable, fine for browsing the web but not gaming. Audio/video sync is fine too for watching flash videos or whatever.
- bstar77 14y agoWill this work well for movies? I'm mainly trying to simplify the streaming for my 3 year olds dvd library from my iMac to a PS3.
- bstar77 14y agoI just tried it with an h264 ripped dvd and it's ok, but it's dropping too many frames. I guess the ps3 media server lives on.
- dave84 14y agoDid you mirror a fullscreen h264? That's probably not an ideal use case. You can AirPlay directly from iTunes or by using AirFlick and AirVideo server which may suit your needs. They're both free.