Let's talk about ILDN

[ugarte]

Do others find the [] Remember Me checkbox doesn't remember you?

Funny.  Last year, it didn't remember me.  This year it did.

Now you're a regular.

[Beeeej]

Our problem tends to be that when we run the video full-screen on my Apple laptop and mirror it through our AppleTV, the video and sound feeds are stop-start and jumpy. It works fine via the iPhone or iPad, but costs $1 more - and this is a brand-new MacBook Pro, though admittedly not quite the very, very top end. I understand this is Apple's problem, not ILDN's, but I figured I'd complain about it here anyway in case anybody has a solution to offer. How could my laptop, which theoretically has degrees of magnitude more computing power than my iPhone, have so much more trouble mirroring a video stream to the AppleTV than the iPhone? (This is reproducible for all kinds of streaming, not just ILDN.) Even closing all other applications doesn't help.

[Trotsky]

How could my laptop, which theoretically has degrees of magnitude more computing power than my iPhone, have so much more trouble mirroring a video stream to the AppleTV than the iPhone? (This is reproducible for all kinds of streaming, not just ILDN.) Even closing all other applications doesn't help.

It's because your laptop has the virus from downloading Samoan dental hygienist porn.

[billhoward]

Are Mac users cranky perfectionists? Could it be fewer resources have gone to making the Mac experience a good one? In the early days of RedCast or pre-RedCast, wasn't there a time when the Mac wasn't supported?

[Rosey]

Are Mac users cranky perfectionists? Could it be fewer resources have gone to making the Mac experience a good one? In the early days of RedCast or pre-RedCast, wasn't there a time when the Mac wasn't supported?

If PC Magazine still has an anti-Mac bias, but no one is reading, does it really matter?

[marty]

Our problem tends to be that when we run the video full-screen on my Apple laptop and mirror it through our AppleTV, the video and sound feeds are stop-start and jumpy. It works fine via the iPhone or iPad, but costs $1 more - and this is a brand-new MacBook Pro, though admittedly not quite the very, very top end. I understand this is Apple's problem, not ILDN's, but I figured I'd complain about it here anyway in case anybody has a solution to offer. How could my laptop, which theoretically has degrees of magnitude more computing power than my iPhone, have so much more trouble mirroring a video stream to the AppleTV than the iPhone? (This is reproducible for all kinds of streaming, not just ILDN.) Even closing all other applications doesn't help.

I view this as an amazing feat for the iP*d devices work so well with Apple TV.  You could do what we neanderthal PC users do and hook the laptop to the TV with an HDMI cable.

[BMac]

Beeeej,

I haven't had that trouble with my MBP. I usually use airplay off my iphone or macmini with no problem, as you say.

Have you tried with different wireless routers? I really saw a big improvement when I got a new multi-band device- in general, not just ILDN. Turns out between two laptops, phones, the apple TV, the desktop, the ipad and the kindle we were overloading our circa 2009 device.

I don't know whether they've cleverly found ways to natively re-route airplay streams to the Apple TV. I mean, they can't possibly be streaming ILDN to my iPhone via wi-fi, then streaming from the iPhone to the Apple TV over wi-fi again, can they? I figured they were somehow detecting the stream source and sending it straight to the apple tv...

[CowbellGuy]

Beeeej,

I haven't had that trouble with my MBP. I usually use airplay off my iphone or macmini with no problem, as you say.

Have you tried with different wireless routers? I really saw a big improvement when I got a new multi-band device- in general, not just ILDN. Turns out between two laptops, phones, the apple TV, the desktop, the ipad and the kindle we were overloading our circa 2009 device.

I don't know whether they've cleverly found ways to natively re-route airplay streams to the Apple TV. I mean, they can't possibly be streaming ILDN to my iPhone via wi-fi, then streaming from the iPhone to the Apple TV over wi-fi again, can they? I figured they were somehow detecting the stream source and sending it straight to the apple tv...

Yeah, what he said. First place I would look is to your router. Current and previous gen Airport Extreme are awesome. Second, when wires can be used about as easily as wireless, use them.

[billhoward]

Are Mac users cranky perfectionists? Could it be fewer resources have gone to making the Mac experience a good one? In the early days of RedCast or pre-RedCast, wasn't there a time when the Mac wasn't supported?

If PC Magazine still has an anti-Mac bias, but no one is reading, does it really matter?

Works both ways at pubs (now sites BTW - none have print anymore) with PC in the title. When my colleague Harry McCracken departed PC World he said, Now I won't hear from people who complain that I use a MacBook.

[Beeeej]

Beeeej,

I haven't had that trouble with my MBP. I usually use airplay off my iphone or macmini with no problem, as you say.

Have you tried with different wireless routers? I really saw a big improvement when I got a new multi-band device- in general, not just ILDN. Turns out between two laptops, phones, the apple TV, the desktop, the ipad and the kindle we were overloading our circa 2009 device.

I don't know whether they've cleverly found ways to natively re-route airplay streams to the Apple TV. I mean, they can't possibly be streaming ILDN to my iPhone via wi-fi, then streaming from the iPhone to the Apple TV over wi-fi again, can they? I figured they were somehow detecting the stream source and sending it straight to the apple tv...

Yeah, what he said. First place I would look is to your router. Current and previous gen Airport Extreme are awesome. Second, when wires can be used about as easily as wireless, use them.

If the iPhone and iPad mirror to the AppleTV nearly flawlessly via the exact same wireless router, is it really possible that the wireless router is the problem with the MBP's mirroring? Anyway, the one we have came free with FiOS, and at the moment we don't really need any of the extras that would come with the Airport Extreme.

I will try it via a physical connection at some point.

[Rosey]

Are Mac users cranky perfectionists? Could it be fewer resources have gone to making the Mac experience a good one? In the early days of RedCast or pre-RedCast, wasn't there a time when the Mac wasn't supported?

If PC Magazine still has an anti-Mac bias, but no one is reading, does it really matter?

Works both ways at pubs (now sites BTW - none have print anymore) with PC in the title. When my colleague Harry McCracken departed PC World he said, Now I won't hear from people who complain that I use a MacBook.

Ha! Good response. :-)