[Closed] Any Apple TV experts ?

Have you been able to get the home menu up on the Apple TV?

Have you tried bypassing the Apple TV and hook laptop direct to your tv

Yep, I can get the home menu up and if I press menu and up I get the screen resolution choices up.

Can't connect direct to the TV as I don't have the right cable. I'd need a thunderbolt to HDMI cable I think.

Does it work through AirPlay - if your OS X supports it?

I think my daughter had similar problem trying to play iPlater stuff to the Apple TV, but then just used the AirPlay share function in the iPlayer app (from iPad...)

The setup we find most reliable is:

MBP connected to router by Cat 5 (will still work by wifi but depends where laptop is in relation to router and Apple TV)
Apple TV connected by wifi (though if we could I'd wire it), and to TV by HDMI

You should be able to set up display mirroring and set the sound to play though the Apple TV, but it's possible there's some reason why DVDs don't work - we usually play films from iTunes on ours.

Not through iTunes, I opened the DVD player on the mac then mirrored the screen through airplay. When I do that the sound comes through the Apple TV but the screen on both the mac and Apple TV (well tv) goes blank. I un-airplay and the mac plays the DVD fine.

Normally this sort of stuff just works on a mac but I'm buggered as to what's wrong

Home sharing on. And I can see my desktop on the tv if I do t play the DVD, it's just it goes blank when I play it

It [i]shouldn't[/i] be a resolution issue, as IIRC HDMI sets this automatically, and in any case a DVD is lower res than 720 anyway,

Have you tried just beaming via airplay without mirroring? My MacBook is too old to have airplay but on my iPad I just airplay without mirroring.

Also, could there legal and/or copyright issues with airplaying direct from a DVD to a large screen related to all that legal bumph you get at the start of a DVD?

Is the software on both devices up to date?

Is the software on both devices up to date?

And some one on here once had the cheek to ask me why I was for ever sat watching my Apple tv update...

This isn't going to work, apple has to implement the copy protection for dvd's, which means you can't then broadcast it e.g. the the appleTV.

Best bet would be to either rip the DVD to a file to get rid of the copy protection, or just download a dodgy version.

As usual it's the pointless inconvenience of security that drives people to what they were trying to avoid. Still, it's also a good way to get rid of those annoying trailers and copyright protection videos.

@rob, not sure I'd say I was an expert ! On your MBP do you have have the airplay logo on top line of home desktop screen (I assume you are running mavericks) ? If so you can connect to ATV and use the tv as a second screen complete with dock (all the program icons on the bottom). I suspect you can as you have sound (note some older macs don't support this like my mac min from 2009). What you want to do is get this second screen up on the tv. Then scroll mouse to tv screen and start the DVD app from there, max the screen and you are done.

If this doesn't work you need to rip the DVD (via handbrake or RipIt) and import into iTunes and AirPlay it from there.

Good luck

Edit FYI the programme RipIt will get past pretty much any copy protection, I use handbrake to compress the result and put it imto a mac format like mkv, I find handbrake doesn't always get past all copy protection.

My 2010 MBP won't connect through Apple TV, it's down to its an older model

I downloaded some software "Parrot" something now it works

Jambalaya - cheers I'll try that. I've got the airplay logo thing at the top

Is it the 3rd or 2nd gen Apple TV?

I know the 3rd gen supports 1080p, but there may be a way to set it so it outputs 720p.

However, I'm guessing here, I haven't had this issue with mine.

If you have an iOs device, try playing a few youtube videos over airplay and see if they show up on your tv. 🙂