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Apple Watch: AirPlay Capabilities

April 30, 2015 by flo·2 Comments

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In this article, I explain how to use AirPlay on your Apple Watch.

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How to use AirPlay on an Amazon Fire TV

January 27, 2015 by flo·48 Comments

Obviously, there’s no built-in support if you want to stream videos from Apple’s iPhone or iPad to an Amazon Fire TV. But in this article, I’ll show you how to add AirPlay to your Fire TV so that you can stream content to your Amazon Fire TV (in the same way as you stream it to an Apple TV).

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How to use AirPlay on your iPhone or iPad

November 9, 2014 by flo·13 Comments

Using AirPlay is easy. Here’s a short how-to for AirPlay streaming on your iPhone or iPad.
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Redirect your Apple TV Audio to alternate AirPlay speakers

August 12, 2014 by flo·59 Comments

In this article, I will show you how to wirelessly send the audio signal of your Apple TV to alternate AirPlay Speakers (e.g. another Apple TV or an AirPort Express).

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AirServer: Stream content from your iOS devices to your Mac

August 11, 2014 by flo·0 Comments

Officially, your Mac can send AirPlay streams, but can’t act as an wireless AirPlay receiver. For receiving AirPlay streams on your Mac, additional software is needed. One of the solutions for that is AirServer, which allows you to mirror your iOS display or stream content from your iOS devices to your Mac. So it works similar to an Apple TV, just on your Mac.

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Watching DVDs on your Apple TV with AirPlay

August 10, 2014 by flo·64 Comments

For a long time, I was looking for an easy way to play DVDs with my Apple TV without the time-consuming task of ripping the DVDs before watching them. In this article, I will show you how to immediately stream DVDs to your Apple TV with the help of AirPlay Mirroring.

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AirPlay Mirroring: Tips for improving Performance

August 6, 2014 by flo·36 Comments

Although AirPlay Mirroring is easy to setup, you can run into performance problems while using it. Especially harder use cases like watching videos can cause performance problems like:

  • Video stutters
  • Video freezes
  • Dropped frames or dropped connection
  • …

Here are some tips that could help you improve the overall performance of AirPlay Mirroring.

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Remote App for controlling Apple TV and iTunes

August 5, 2014 by flo·0 Comments

With the Apple Remote App, you can control the playback of your content in iTunes and Apple TV in a very flexible way. In this article I will show you two different scenarios to control your streaming by using the Remote App with an iOS device.

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Stream simultaneously to multiple AirPlay destinations

August 4, 2014 by flo·0 Comments

For example, you have AirPlay-enabled speakers in the kitchen and in the dining room. It seems reasonable to suppose that, at least sometimes, you want to stream to both rooms simultaneously. With AirPlay you can do that, but it depends on the sender.

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Is there a difference between AirTunes and AirPlay?

August 4, 2014 by flo·1 Comment

AirTunes was announced in 2004, focused on playing audio wirelessly from iTunes to an AirPort Express. So you could listen to music all over your house from your mobile device.

In 2010, AirTunes became AirPlay to represent the extend scope of being able to play all kinds of content (including videos, photos, etc.).

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